[FoxNews] Retired Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, has died, the high court announced. She was 93.
O'Connor died Friday morning in Phoenix, Arizona, of complications related to advanced dementia, probably Alzheimer's, and a respiratory illness, the Supreme Court said in a news release.
She is remembered as a history-making woman, a Westerner, pragmatic conservative, keen legal mind and beloved mother and grandmother.
"We all bring with us to the Court or to any task we undertake, our own lifetime of experiences and background," O'Connor told Fox News in a 2003 interview. "My perceptions might be different than some of my colleagues, but at the end of the day, we ought to all be able to agree on some sensible solutions to the problem."
[RFE] Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko, who hijacked a MiG-25 military jet to Japan in September 1976, has died in the United States at the age of 76. The New York Times quoted Belenko's son on November 20 as saying that his father had died after a brief, unspecified illness in a nursing home in Rosebud, Illinois, on September 24. Belenko’s defection gave the U.S. Armed Forces an opportunity to study the jet, which was considered top secret in the Soviet Union at the time. In 1980, the U.S. Congress approved a law authorizing U.S. citizenship for Belenko. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Siberia.Realities, click here. *Rosebud*
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And BTW, he didn't hijack the MiG 25.
He was the assigned pilot. He just flew it somewhere that the Russians didn't want it to go.
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Theft rather than hijack? Or perhaps a gift to the Americans of something that was not technically his to give away — that old ownership vs control philosophical argument the economists like to play with.
[AFRICANEWS] More than a million people have been displaced by flooding caused by heavy rains that have been affecting Somalia for several weeks, the Somali president announced on Wednesday evening.
The Horn of Africa is facing torrential rains and floods linked to the El Nino weather phenomenon, which have claimed dozens of lives and caused large-scale displacement, particularly in Somalia, where the massive rains have destroyed bridges and flooded residential areas. next week it'll be cholera, followed by drought by New Years
"Our country is in a critical state and our people have been affected by the floods everywhere," President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said in an address, adding that the floods had displaced over a million people and killed 101 in Somalia, which has a population of around 17 million.
The head of state also warned against the proliferation of disease.
The authorities in Mogadishu declared a state of emergency on November 12 in response to the scale of the disaster.
[The Street] The most reliable brand, according to Consumer Reports' data, is Toyota's luxury marque Lexus, which scored a 79 out of 100. Its parent brand, Toyota (TM) - Get Free Report, follows in second with 76 points, followed by BMW-owned (BMWYY) brand Mini with 71, followed by Honda's luxury marque Acura and Honda (HMC) - Get Free Report itself, both tied with 70 points.
[ZERO] The government of Viktor Orban in Hungary has blasted a proposal to admit Ukraine into the European Union as "completely premature". Orban's chief of staff, Gergely Gulyas, on Thursday told a news conference in Budapest that it is too early to so much as begin formal talks on the matter, according to the AP.
"We are dealing with a completely premature proposal," Gulyas emphasized, explaining that Hungary "cannot contribute to a common decision" on inviting Ukraine to join the bloc.
[AFRICANEWS] A German court sentenced a Gambia ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by The Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain... n death squad member to life imprisonment on Thursday, convicting him of crimes against humanity among other charges, at the end of the country's first trial for abuses committed under President Yahya Jammeh's regime.
Presented by the media as Bai Lowe but only identified as Bai L. by the German justice system, the 48-year-old man was convicted of crimes against humanity, murder and attempted murder in a total of three cases by the court in Celle (north), which followed the request of the public prosecutor.
Specifically, he was found guilty of participating in murders in his country between 2003 and 2006, including that of AFP correspondent Deyda Hydara, rubbed out on December 16, 2004.
The man was a driver for the "Junglers", a Gambian death squad created by the ruling government in the mid-1990s to intimidate or eliminate any form of opposition.
Speaking via his lawyer at a hearing in October 2022, he denied any involvement in these acts. The defense pleaded for his acquittal.
[Modernity] In one of Henry Kissinger’s final interviews before his death at 100 years old, the former statesman warned that Germany had made a "grave mistake" in allowing so many migrants into the country.
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Unable to focus on an American challenge or "mistake", the ultimate globalist defaults to a much earlier life period and urgency. It's what old people do.
Citizen? Yes. American? I have always had my doubts.
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"Chancellor Helmut Kohl officially stated this as the main reason for denying dual citizenship in 1997 when he said the following:
If today [1997] we give in to demands for dual citizenship, we would soon have four, five, or six million Turks in Germany, instead of three million – Chancellor Helmut Kohl, in 1997.
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.
