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Salute to the Falklands fallen: British troops recreate march made during the final days of the war almost four decades on from conflict with Argentina
[MAIL] Salute to the Falklands fallen: British troops recreate march made during the final days of the war almost four decades on from conflict with Argentina.

  • Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment made 50-mile march to seize control of islands' capital.

  • Today's regiment retraced their steps 37 years later to salute the 23 Paras who perished in treacherous assault.

  • Falklands War lasted 74 days from April to June 1982, and was tug-of-war for the traditionally British islands.
    Except to Oblahblah they were always "the Malvinas Maldives"
  • Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


    Follow-up: Four hundred bikers gather to bid goodbye to seven motorcyclists, including Marine veterans, killed in crash with Dodge pickup truck driver who 'plowed into their procession'
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  The family of the driver of the Dodge pickup that hit the bikers said upon returning home after the accident he went into his room and would not come out or eat. He has since been arrested and charges have been filed.
    Posted by: Phaick Uneretle6310 || 06/25/2019 0:23 Comments || Top||

    #2  I read somewhere the guy towing the trailer deliberately turned left right in front of the group.
    Posted by: gorb || 06/25/2019 2:47 Comments || Top||

    #3  Doesn’t look like an accident to me
    Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 06/25/2019 10:00 Comments || Top||


    -Short Attention Span Theater-
    NOT the Bee: A black, transgender and disabled model just landed her first major magazine cover
    Might as well be. It's CNN Style.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  . . . just landed a cover on a "major" magazine . . . called Paper. Never heard of it before and they think this will help their circulation? Not so much.
    Posted by: warthogswife || 06/25/2019 10:38 Comments || Top||

    #2  This "Paper" magazine has a circulation of what? A couple hundred maybe? Likewise I've never heard of this magazine before this article. which was probably the whole point.
    Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 06/25/2019 11:03 Comments || Top||

    #3  From Wikipedia:

    Paper (magazine)
    Paper is a New York City-based independent magazine focusing on fashion, popular culture, nightlife, music, art and film.

    Paper was founded in 1984 by Kim Hastreiter and David Hershkovits, former editors at the SoHo Weekly News, with help from Lucy Sisman and Richard Weigand. Beginning as a monthly print magazine in the form of a black and white 16-page fold-out, it has since transformed into a quarterly print and digital magazine.[3]

    Past cover models include Kim Kardashian, Demi Lovato, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Prince, CL, and Jennifer Lopez.

    In November 2014, Kim Kardashian was the cover star of the “Break the Internet” issue. Kardashian was interviewed by Paper contributor Amanda Fortini for the spread "No Filter: An Afternoon with Kim Kardashian". The photos for the issue were taken by Jean–Paul Goude.[8] The shoot was a re-creation of Goude's "Champagne Incident", a series of photographs from his 1982 book Jungle Fever.[9] The cover photo, as well as the rest, feature a fully nude Kardashian.

    Since the story was published, it has gotten 34,147,700 unique page-views, which is more than double the number of page-views Paper normally receives annually.


    It sounds like a girlie mag with pretensions.
    Posted by: trailing wife || 06/25/2019 11:10 Comments || Top||

    #4  Yuk!
    Posted by: SR-71 || 06/25/2019 20:03 Comments || Top||

    #5  Freakin' CNN. That screeching sound must be Lynne Russell doing donuts in Ted Turner's Rascal. Thing 1 seems to be Bud Selig's grandkid at her summer job, Thing 2 a grizzled veteran of Mashable and such who's been toiling in teh trenches for even more months than her. "Trailblazing!" "Made history!" "Unprecedented!"

    Posted by: Gleater the Infinitesmal3639 || 06/25/2019 20:22 Comments || Top||


    Pure Pork: Sausage factory worker is killed after being sucked headfirst into a meat-mixing machine and suffocating in Philippines
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  "Who's turn is it?"
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2019 1:06 Comments || Top||

    #2  High likelihood of an 'assisted suicide'.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 06/25/2019 8:30 Comments || Top||


    -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
    Illinois becomes 11th state in US to legalize recreational marijuana, first to set up statewide marketplace
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2019 16:08 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


    Arabia
    'If you don't let me drive...I don't want you': Saudi Arabian women demand husbands-to-be put their right to drive in marital contract
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Did they include a Porsche as a marital gift?
    Posted by: European Conservative || 06/25/2019 13:50 Comments || Top||

    #2  Or driving lessons?
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2019 15:31 Comments || Top||


    Britain
    Police hit back against moped menace: Officers RAM suspect off his bike after high-speed chase through busy city streets - then spray him with hi-tech 'water pistol'
    [Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
    • Police hit back against the moped menace

    • Suspect moped thief is thrown into the air after he is hit by police car in Victoria Park, east London

    • The scenes, filmed for Channel 5 documentary, show 'tactical contact' in action

    • The method sees specially trained police ram into fleeing criminals on mopeds

    • But critics have blasted the tactic as 'heavy handed' despite figures showing a cut in crime
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Good, now ram those Škodas into knifers and acid throwers too. A bloody moped.'Specially trained', right.
    Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/25/2019 3:22 Comments || Top||


    Europe
    Nazi soldiers used performance-enhancing 'super-drug' in World War II, shocking documentary reveals
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2019 16:10 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Speed. More modern versions in use modafinil since it was invented.
    Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 06/25/2019 18:03 Comments || Top||

    #2  and the Japanese used Crystal Meth
    Posted by: Frank G || 06/25/2019 19:31 Comments || Top||

    #3 
    Old and busted - missile gap

    New hotness - steroid gap
    Posted by: Iblis || 06/25/2019 19:42 Comments || Top||

    #4  Not shocking to me. I've known about it for years from reading first person German soldier accounts.
    Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/25/2019 19:42 Comments || Top||

    #5  What do you think the British were on in Arnham?
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/25/2019 20:27 Comments || Top||


    Incredible images show climate activists storming German coal mine, chaining themselves to railway tracks and clashing with police as they demand an end to fossil fuels
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  How did they get to the protest site? Horseback?
    Posted by: gorb || 06/25/2019 2:49 Comments || Top||

    #2  Solution to the problem. FENCE off a HUGE area put these ASS"0's" in it. NO POWER, NOTHING other than a windmill w/out battery's. Then say SURVIVE?
    Posted by: rature || 06/25/2019 10:02 Comments || Top||

    #3  ...The Soviets did that with a lot of 'migrant' Germans from Stalingrad. Out of the nearly 91,000 German prisoners captured in Stalingrad, only about 5,000 returned.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/25/2019 10:59 Comments || Top||

    #4  Who knew there were so many Germans under thirty?
    Posted by: Secret Master || 06/25/2019 19:33 Comments || Top||


    German police deal with threat of violence from Neo-Nazis by confiscating 7,000 pints of beer at far right festival
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  A lot of discarded bras to be used as catapults too.
    Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/25/2019 3:24 Comments || Top||

    #2  As if seizing their beer will keep them from being angry.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2019 10:08 Comments || Top||

    #3  ...just reducing the "hold my beer while I do this" moments.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/25/2019 10:56 Comments || Top||


    India-Pakistan
    Woman dies saving daughter from being raped
    [DAWN] TAXILA: A woman lost her life while saving her daughter from being raped in Jallia village located in the limits of Hazro cop shoppe early on Sunday.

    The body of the woman remained unattended at the THQ hospital for hours as no female doctor was available to conduct an autopsy.
    Station House Officer (SHO) Mohammad Azam told newsmen that a suspect entered the house after scaling the wall and attempted to sexually assault a married woman.

    The woman was living with her mother after developing differences with her in-laws.

    The SHO said as the woman screamed, her mother came to rescue her. However,
    Switzerland makes more than cheese...
    the intruder stabbed the mother with a knife and also injured her daughter.

    The SHO said the attacker fled from the house.

    He said the neighbours shifted the two injured women to Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) Hospital Hazro from where the old woman was taken to Rawalpindi where she died.

    When the body was brought back to the THQ hospital for his appointment with Doctor Quincy, people related to the women and the attacker clashed. Some of them were later arrested.

    The SHO said the police registered a murder case against the suspect and arrested him.

    The body of the woman remained unattended at the THQ hospital for hours as no female doctor was available to conduct an autopsy.

    Posted by: Fred || 06/25/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  as no female doctor was available to conduct an autopsy.

    Eh?! Some sort of islamic proscription ?
    Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/25/2019 14:29 Comments || Top||

    #2  Drop, probably. IIRC, a faithful Muslim is not allowed to the naked body of someone of the opposite sex.
    Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 06/25/2019 15:48 Comments || Top||


    Under-trial prisoner dies in jail hospital under controversial circumstances
    [DAWN] An under-trial prisoner (UTP) died under controversial circumstances inside the district jail, Malir, officials said on Sunday.

    His relatives and other prisoners alleged that the UTP, Sagheer Tanoli, died from torture as there were visible marks on the body.

    However,
    there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
    prison authorities claimed that he was brought to jail in an ’injured’ condition and he died during treatment at the jail hospital.

    The UTP was arrested by the Saeedabad police a couple of days ago. The police said that he got injuries on the shoulder when he was taken into custody.

    A case was registered against him under sections 380 (theft in dwelling house, etc), 457 (lurking house-trespass or house-breaking by night in order to commit offence punishable with imprisonment), 109 (abetment) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistain Penal Code.

    He was sent to the Malir prison on June 13 and on the night of June 22, his condition deteriorated and he died at the medical ward/hospital of the prison.

    Posted by: Fred || 06/25/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Guess he broke into the wrong rec room.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2019 0:53 Comments || Top||


    Jail survey finds close link between drugs and crime
    [DAWN] A recent survey carried out in District Jail Malir has found close connection between drugs and crime as it reveals most inmates have landed in the prison due to drug related offenses.

    The survey further learnt that a majority of prisoners took to drugs at a young age under peer pressure, some just for fun and others to escape frustration and a significant number of these drug users were married and lived with their families before being arrested and sent to jail.
    Posted by: Fred || 06/25/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Who da thunk!
    Posted by: Warthog || 06/25/2019 9:38 Comments || Top||


    Iraq
    Iraq sees bumper crop this year in wheat, barley
    [Rudaw] Iraq is set to become self-sufficient in producing wheat and barley this year, despite a rash of fires and security issues.

    This year’s harvest in Nineveh is reportedly better than ever and will bring a bumper crop for the country.

    According to Iraq’s Ministry of Agriculture, the wheat fields in Nineveh, Kirkuk,
    ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
    Anbar and some other areas in Iraq have increased harvest production since they were liberated from the Islamic State
    ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
    (ISIS).

    1.3 million tons of wheat and 1.4 million tons of barley are expected to be harvested this year.

    Still, up to 1.7 million acres of fields in Nineveh weren’t included in agricultural planning, as they still need to be cleared of bombs and mines. After clearing the bombs, productivity in the country could be even higher.

    The Iraqi government pays a subsidized price for wheat. While average wheat market prices fall between while average wheat market prices fall between 350,000 and 420,000 IQD ($293- $352 USD) per ton of top grade wheat, Iraqi farmers receive around 520,000 IQD ($436 USD) per ton.
    Posted by: trailing wife || 06/25/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


    Science & Technology
    A hacker infiltrated NASA last year and stole restricted files using a £34 Raspberry Pi computer
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2019 10:37 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  A) This was the plot of an episode of Mr. Robot
    B) This sounds like an ad for the Raspberry Pi 4 which was just released.
    Posted by: SteveS || 06/25/2019 17:52 Comments || Top||


    SpaceX launches hefty rocket with 24 satellites, human ashes
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2019 03:34 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Quite a show. Whatever the frontman's issues and problems may be, the team once again did a fantastic job.
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/25/2019 9:17 Comments || Top||

    #2  Lost the 'core' on re-landing...again
    Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/25/2019 10:58 Comments || Top||

    #3  More specifically the Center Core.
    Posted by: Hellfish || 06/25/2019 12:59 Comments || Top||

    #4  Getting the first stage to reliably hit the barge should be as easy as incorporating the Tesla auto drive software and making sure the barge looks like a section of jersey barrier or parked DOT truck from above. Then they can't miss...
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/25/2019 14:49 Comments || Top||

    #5  Like M said, the guy is moving forward at a pace not seen since the lunar race. We need more kike him.
    Posted by: 49 Pan || 06/25/2019 14:54 Comments || Top||

    #6  Jewish rockets?
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2019 15:19 Comments || Top||

    #7  M. Murcek - that was the longest landing ever with no boost back burn and a total experiment. Get your facts straight on that before dissing it. It was 1300+ miles out at sea. Previous longest one was 730 some miles. There were 4 separate orbit burns to radically different orbits for some very very strange DARPA, DOD, Taiwanese and other sats. The payload weight was very very low. The Air Force controlled the whole game plan. They wanted some data they could only get with this strange launch. What the real purpose(s) of it are the Air Force's to know.
    Posted by: 3dc || 06/25/2019 19:58 Comments || Top||

    #8  If you want to continue dinging Musk try the latest failure of an Oxygen Impleller on the Starship's prototype Raptor Engine. It will delay the test launches of the Hopper while they redesign the blade. 3 weeks to model, redesign and build a new blade and 3 weeks to test again. Starship is the one that will eventually take 100 passengers to Mars.

    Posted by: 3dc || 06/25/2019 20:07 Comments || Top||


    #10  And you gotta ask what the other billionaires are doing to advance the human condition.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2019 20:35 Comments || Top||

    #11  And you gotta ask what the other billionaires are doing to advance the human condition.

    Trying to rig the internet to "prevent another Trump from happening"
    Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 06/25/2019 21:22 Comments || Top||

    #12  (sarcasm tag above)
    Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 06/25/2019 21:22 Comments || Top||

    #13  (sarcasm tag above)

    You remembered! :-) Much appreciated, Injun Bucket8891.
    Posted by: trailing wife || 06/25/2019 22:03 Comments || Top||


    Elon Musk ridiculed for using a picture of the MOON in a tweet about 'Occupy Mars' as he reveals SpaceX will ramp up Raptor Engine production to 'one every 12 hours'
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  He's still a hero to his cultish admirers, including many who should know better.
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/25/2019 0:20 Comments || Top||

    #2  Ahhh, well maybe the Moon isn't cheese.
    Maybe it's an orange Creamsicle.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2019 3:33 Comments || Top||

    #3  I haven’t felt this good since the 60s while watching launches from the Cape. NASA should be directed to concentrate on space or be shutdown. This global warming stuff should not be part of NASA’s budget! Why are we paying Russians to launch people to the space station!
    Posted by: Slavith Bonaparte1586 || 06/25/2019 8:27 Comments || Top||

    #4  It makes me almost want to buy a Tesla.
    Posted by: Slavith Bonaparte1586 || 06/25/2019 8:29 Comments || Top||

    #5  :Shrug: Some staffer mindlessly grabbed the wrong .gif image when making the screen... Elon Musk, or his assistant or assistant's assistant, saw the astronomical red thingy™ and signed off on it.
    Posted by: magpie || 06/25/2019 15:20 Comments || Top||

    #6  I blame high powered up and coming millennial PR firm, signed off on by HR.
    Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/25/2019 20:04 Comments || Top||

    #7  The moon is closer to test on. He is tweaking NASA's SLS with that image. His rocket can land by itself on the moon and accomplish way more than the 32 billion return a couple of guys to the moon that the Senate Launch System is planing to PORK err launch.

    He could carry a whole moon base to the moon with bulldozers and the lot. Look at the specs for that rocket.
    Even the first stage... 2,000 kN per engine. First stage has 31 engines so 62,000 kN first stage. Second stage has 7 to 9 engines so 14,000 kN to 18,000 kN for second stage. Want to carry a road roller?
    Posted by: 3dc || 06/25/2019 20:19 Comments || Top||

    #8  Lower level estimates:

    Payload to LEO 150,000 kg [4]
    Payload to Moon 100,000+ kg (220,000+ lb)
    (with orbital refueling)[5]
    Payload to Mars 100,000+ kg (220,000+ lb)
    (with orbital refueling)[2][5]
    Posted by: 3dc || 06/25/2019 20:21 Comments || Top||

    #9  NET 2022 - Cargo Mars Mission - BFR - Kennedy LC-39A/Boca Chica
    NET 2022 - Cargo Mars Mission - BFR - Kennedy LC-39A/Boca Chica
    NET 2024 - Cargo Mars Mission - BFR - Kennedy LC-39A/Boca Chica
    NET 2024 - Cargo Mars Mission - BFR - Kennedy LC-39A/Boca Chica
    NET 2024 - Manned Mars Mission - BFR - Kennedy LC-39A/Boca Chica
    NET 2024 - Manned Mars Mission - BFR - Kennedy LC-39A/Boca Chica
    Posted by: 3dc || 06/25/2019 20:34 Comments || Top||

    #10  All of that.
    But first, the solar battery farm.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2019 20:40 Comments || Top||


    Artificial islands older than Stonehenge stump scientists
    [NationalGeographic] A study of crannogs in Scotland's Outer Hebrides reveals some were built more than 3,000 years earlier than previously thought. But what purpose did they serve?
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Hair guy told me it's Aliens.
    Posted by: AlanC || 06/25/2019 9:23 Comments || Top||

    #2  Giorgio is rocking some alien looking hair I have to admit
    Posted by: Warthog || 06/25/2019 9:41 Comments || Top||

    #3  Come on Erb, that's 'wag the dog'.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2019 15:34 Comments || Top||

    #4  Its always aliens. It explains things without any need to explain further.
    Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 06/25/2019 18:08 Comments || Top||


    Home Front: Culture Wars
    After 9 months, Reddit finally bans group spreading thinly veiled anti-Semitism
    [IsraelTimes] Community had grown to 60,000-strong, and was prompting concerns elsewhere on social media platform; similar, smaller group still operates.

    After allowing it to flourish for nine months, Reddit has banned an internet community comprising tens of thousands of members that critics elsewhere on the platform said was associated with the online neo-Nazi
    ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....
    movement.

    The /r/frenworld community had grown to 60,346 subscribers before its ban by the Reddit administration on Thursday. In an explanation posted on the group’s former web page, Reddit stated that "this subreddit was banned for violations of our Content Policy, specifically, the posting of content that glorifies or encourages violence."

    A similar community, with a smaller subscriber group of some 15,000, was still functioning as of this writing, however, as were several much smaller communities.
    Posted by: trailing wife || 06/25/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:



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