[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Aaron Quinones, 27, has been charged with felony attempted murder after he allegedly tried to strangle an unidentified woman, 26, with a shoelace
The attack happened on January 2 at around 11am near the Miami airport
Quinones was arrested for assaulting his girlfriend two years ago and for larceny in 2013, according to Charlotte police
Public records reveal a long list of previous arrests in North Carolina dating back as early as 2013
On Sunday, Quinones punched the woman repeatedly in the face when she tried to get away before a bystander pried Quinones off her
[Aljazeera] Sidney Poitier, who broke racial barriers to become the first Black actor to win the best actor Oscar award and inspired a generation during the United States civil rights movement, has died, officials said. He was 94.
Eugene Torchon-Newry, acting director general of the Bahamian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, confirmed his death on Friday.
Unschooled beyond fourth grade in the Bahamas, sent to America by his parents at 14 to save him from a life of crime, shot in the leg at 16 during a 1943 race riot in Harlem, Poitier worked hard jobs as a menial laborer and an Army hospital orderly before he happened to spot an audition notice for the Negro Ensemble Theater.
He was dismissed by the NET due to a thick accent and halting reading skills — and thereupon began the process of willing himself into becoming the most important American black pop culture figure of the 20th century.
Poitier sat before a radio and trained his own voice, remaking it until he achieved the indelible sing-song baritone that — a little like Cary Grant’s — sounded like no one else’s on Earth. He got into the theater troupe and made conscious use of a charisma that emanated from him like a pheromone.
Four years later he had his first starring role in a movie — 1950’s “No Way Out.” He was all of 22. And he was playing a doctor. He would do so again, 17 years later, in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” the first major motion picture to feature a black man and a white woman in a romance.
That film was the representative work of one aspect of his career — the aspect in which he served as the representation of black pride and dignity, a person it would be impossible to consider in any way inferior to anyone else.
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I don't get it.
My mother put me in the trunk on more than one occasion. Most often for fighting with my sister.
What's the big deal, look how I turned out.
[Breitbart] CLAIM: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor: "We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition, many on ventilators," from coronavirus.
VERDICT: FALSE. There are about 4,000 children in hospital from coronavirus.
Justice Sotomayor made several factually false statements during oral arguments Friday at the Supreme Court, as the justices considered challenges to President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates, including a mandate on large private employers. Or was it 100,000,000? Welcome to the island of the dreadfully misinformed. We'll be blowing the ships horn when it's time to reboard.
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According to unreliable sources, Antoine Fauveau *did* survive and was known as One-Nipple Tony to his friends, although they never said it to what was left of his face.
[Bearing Arms] Cage was speaking as part of a wide-ranging roundtable discussion for the Hollywood Reporter with fellow actors including Peter Dinklage, Jonathan Majors and Andrew Garfield. On being asked whether guns should be banned from film sets in the wake of the Rust shooting, Cage responded by saying that "movie stars" needed to know how to perform certain activities that may be outside the experience of workaday actors. "You need to know how to fight. You’re going to do fight scenes. You need to know how to ride a motorcycle. You need to know how to use a stick shift and drive sports cars, and you do need to know how to use a gun. You do. You need to take the time to know what the procedure is. Those are part of the job profiles."
Cage also added that these can overlap with the role of a stunt performer, in a mutually beneficial way. "The stunt man and the movie star are two jobs that coexist. Every stunt man needs to be a movie star, and every movie star needs to be a stunt man."
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He's right, you know. Odd thing to say about an actor.
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I've heard countless stories of actors who lied about knowing how to or shoot guns or speak with a posh accent (Michael Caine hired for Zulu) or just ride a horse. When they get to the set and its discovered they lied someone is assigned to teach them.
Retaining that information is another thing.
Bothering about all that when you disrespect guns and gun owners and you are the executive producer and high lord of all you survey is even another thing again.
[US News] ISLAMABAD (AP) — At least 22 people, including 10 children, died in a popular mountain resort town in Pakistan after being stuck in their vehicles overnight during a heavy snowstorm as temperatures plummeted, officials said Saturday.
Most of the victims died of hypothermia, officials said. Among them was an Islamabad police officer and seven other members of his family, fellow police officer Atiq Ahmed said.
More than 4 feet (1 meter) of snow fell in the area of the Murree Hills resort overnight Friday and early Saturday, trapping thousands of cars on roadways, said Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed. The snow was so severe that heavy equipment brought in to clear it initially got stuck during the night, said Umar Maqbool, assistant commissioner for the town of Murree. Temperatures fell to minus 8 degrees Celsius (17.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
Officials called in paramilitary troops and a special military mountain unit to help. By late Saturday, thousands of vehicles had been pulled from the snow but more than a thousand were still stuck, Ahmed said.
[BBC] A UK defence source said it was unlikely the collision was deliberate.
A Russian submarine collided with a Royal Navy warship on patrol in the North Atlantic, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.
HMS Northumberland had been tracking the submarine when it hit the ship's sonar - a piece of equipment being trailed hundreds of metres behind it.
The incident, in late 2020, was captured by a television crew filming a documentary.
A UK defence source said it was unlikely the collision was deliberate.
HMS Northumberland was searching for the submarine in the Arctic Circle after it disappeared from the ship's radar, according to Channel 5, which was filming for its Warship: Life at Sea series.
The MoD said the frigate had located the hunter-killer submarine using the towed array sonar - a long tube fitted with sensitive hydrophones to listen under the water.
A periscope was spotted on the surface by the ship's Merlin helicopter before the Russian submarine dived again, hitting HMS Northumberland's sonar. "One ping only, Vasily"
The film cameras captured the crew shouting: "What the hell was that?".
It is not clear what, if any, damage was suffered by the Russian vessel but the warship had to return to port in Scotland to replace the damaged equipment.
Journalists Amady John Wesley and Wilguens Louissaint shot and burned in Haiti
Pair killed by the Ti Makak gang while reporting on lack of security in the midst of a gang turf war in the country's capital city for Canada’s Radio Écoute
Third reporter managed to escape attack in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Petion-Ville on Thursday
[AlAhram] Add Kazakhstan to the list of former Soviet republics whose independence is now being threatened by Russia. Russian leader Vladimir Putin is using a similar playbook in Kazakhstan to one that he has used over almost a decade to threaten the sovereignty of Ukraine.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. The situation in the country has not yet returned to normal. Sporadic attacks by militant groups, as well as their cleansing, continue in cities, primarily in Alma-Ata. The authorities reported on the establishment of control over all the lost administrations and buildings of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but this of course does not mean that all groups of militants have been eliminated.
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It is becoming more and more obvious that the gas protests were an ordinary screen behind which the struggle of the Kazakh clans was hidden. Talks about the betrayal of some of the leadership of the KNB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as the involvement of the Nazarbayev clan, form a situation where accusations of high treason and an attempted coup d'etat can be brought against Nazarbayev's entourage or even Nazarbayev himself (if he is still alive at all).
What facilities are now under the control of Russian troops.
98th Airborne Division:
- Airport Nursultan
- The building of the General Staff
- Telecenter
45th Separate Spetsnaz Airborne Brigade:
- Almaty Airport
- Headquarters Air Defense
- Nursultan
- 602 base
- Shymkent
31st Separate Airborne Brigade:
- Ust-Kamenogorsk
- Kazatomprom
TSSN Senezh
- Presidential Palace Nursultan
- CB
- KNB
414th Separate Naval Infantry Battalion (Caspian Flotilla):
- Port of Aktau
Correction from an earlier remark: As of December, 2021, the Russian 56th Separate Guards Airborne Brigade was reformed as an airborne regiment and folded into the newly formed Russian 77th Mountain Airborne Assault Division, now based in Crimea.
Note also, none of this includes Wagner PMC deployments, which likely were transported in via Russian commercial aircraft.
[BBC] Driving around early on Friday morning, the smell of burnt vehicles was still in the air. Few people were about, many too afraid to come out into the streets.
The army and police are blocking key sites in the city, which has been the focal point of nationwide protests against the government.
When we approached soldiers at the main square they shouted at us and fired warning shots in the air, warning us not to come close.
I've been coming to Almaty for years. It's normally a bustling city, with lots of greenery and places to eat out and drink.
Now though shops and banks have been looted or destroyed. It will take some time for them to recover.
Much of the damage is around the big main square that protesters first went to when the demonstrations began.
Media buildings nearby were attacked and the mayor's office burnt down. It is pitch black now, having been engulfed by black smoke.
We saw no signs of protests on Friday, just a small group of people gathering near the destroyed buildings to take photos on their phones. But we could still hear shooting and explosions, which may have been be stun grenades. When I first arrived I thought there was fog then realised it was more likely to be smoke from the grenades and fireworks.
Several residents I spoke to were shocked and angry. These protests are unprecedented in Kazakhstan, and many here are surprised that they spread and turned violent mostly peaceful so quickly.
Some of those I spoke to are glad to see forces arrive from Russia and other neighbouring countries, hopeful they will restore order.
One woman told me the government should have been firmer from the start.
"If they had used force in the very beginning, this unrest wouldn't have happened," she said. "Maybe they were worried about condemnation, that they used weapons but you see now what this approach led to."
But amid the anger at the violence, there was sympathy for the protesters too. Many of the demonstrators come from rural areas, where pay is low and life is tough.
"I understand the demands of the protesters," said one man, a 22-year-old cook. "We can see that our salaries are not growing and most of the population is struggling. But this is now looting and hooliganism, ordinary people are suffering now. It must be stopped."
Almaty residents now face food shortages, with the big supermarkets closed. Shops that are open only take cash, but it is difficult to find somewhere to withdraw money. There's no internet and even getting a taxi seems too risky.
With the internet hit and phones not working properly, it is hard to find out what's happening outside the city. There are all sorts of rumours being shared that are impossible to check out.
Kazakhstan has never seen protests of this scale. There's been unrest before, but largely localised. None of them resulted in the main airport being attacked.
Plans to raise fuel prices triggered these demonstrations, but there is also widespread discontent about the government.
After the resignation of Kazakhstan's first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev ...served as the President of Kazakhstan since the Fall of the Soviet Union and the nation's independence in 1991. Contrary to commonly held belief, there is a difference between Kazakhs and Cossacks: Kazakhs have mustaches. Cossacks wear those great big hats. Or maybe it's the other way around... , who held office from independence up to 2019, people hoped the new leader Kassym-Jomart Tokayev would bring change.
These expectations were thwarted. In particular, the renaming of the capital Astana to Nur-Sultan, in honour of the former leader, was proof for many the old is elite is still in charge.
For now, things are calming down and the authorities appear to be in control.
But even if these protests have ended for now, the discontent will remain. Perhaps there will be another spark that fuels new ones
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I see our efficient moderators have been at work sponging up the stupidity, however that is no reason to waste a good rant.
"Why are you listening to *those* lying arseholes?" is a not infrequent comment here at the 'Burg.
At first glance, Rantburg appears to be a news aggregator for the War on Terror and Poetry. But we are also playing a higher level game here - Intelligence and Analysis.
No one is claiming that our sources are 100% gold standard true. Sometimes the news is not news, but magician's patter. Sometimes, the informative bits are not the message, but who is saying it and why. The question is not whether they are lying, but what are they selling?
On a personal note, I rather like the idea that Fred's totem animal is the Rhino, a friendly but unstoppable rhinoceros.
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^True. Most* of the longtime commenters here have a known mindset/world opinion - Mine included. The inclusion of foreign and other inputs mean a challenge to the local MSM narratives. I/We post JPost, Khaama, Tolo, and others NOT because we believe that shit verbatim , but to show what others are seeing. Mock away
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*happy sigh* So beautifully said, and so true. Frank G was the efficient one today.
Over the years, some of those who came to troll learnt to appreciate what we do here. Others got spam copped and chew toyed until they retreated in disorder.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [REGNUM] State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin assured that everything will be done so that the law on life imprisonment for pedophiles was adopted in January 2022.
"We will do everything so that the law on life imprisonment for pedophiles was adopted in January," Volodin said in the Telegram channel.
At the same time, in his opinion, it is necessary to work out with the Federal Penitentiary Service questions about the special detention of such criminals, in the most severe conditions.
"Criminals under such articles must serve life sentences in the most severe conditions - in the northern territories, mines. These geeks have to work hard to earn their own living, every day to remember the atrocities committed, to regret it.
The issue must be worked out jointly with the Federal Penitentiary Service," said the speaker of the State Duma.
As reported earlier by IA REGNUM , two men were detained in Kostroma, suspected of the brutal murder of a five-year-old girl. According to the investigation, on January 4, 2022, the child was abducted while walking by two men and carried away in an unknown direction. One of the men turned out to be a recidivist pedophile.
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My darling wife the psychologist has worked with numerous pedophiles.
She says there is no possibility of rehabilitation and being molested by a pedophile often leads to that behavior
She is a ardent supporter of life imprisonments with no possibility of parole
Pedophiles are predators and are serial offenders
[AlAhram] China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday rejected suggestions that Beijing was luring African countries into debt traps by offering them massive loans, dismissing the idea as a "narrative" pushed by opponents to poverty reduction.
Wang, speaking ahead of touring Beijing-funded infrastructure projects in Kenya, said China's considerable lending to Africa was "mutually benefiting" and not a strategy to extract diplomatic and commercial concessions.
"That is simply not a fact. It is speculation being played out by some with ulterior motives," he told news hounds in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa.
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^ Yes. And they are being advised by Ivy League trained "development" experts who are currently welshing on their student loans.
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What will China do when the loans aren't repaid? Or the facilities built with them are "nationalized"? Or when the money just disappears into a numbered bank account?
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Epicanthic Fold = target?
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China limits foreign buyers to a single property.
Why doesn't everyone else do the same to them? They just buy these properties and then sit on them because their money has nowhere else to go. If they keep it in China, they lose it.
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Back when Japan was buying everything, analyst Ralph Acampora said, "That's fine. What are they going to do, take it back to Japan? They have to pay taxes on it here. The money spent to purchase it is now here."
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We gave an entire class of enablers who make millions off of foreign flight capital: Citigroup, BoA, JPMChase; real estate developers and brokers; tens of thousands of lashes and accountants; and of course the blue political class in CA WA and NY
[MarketWatch] The U.S. created a lackluster 199,000 new jobs in December, signaling that persistent labor shortages and another major coronavirus outbreak are holding back the economy.
The increase in employment was well below Wall Street expectations. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had forecast 422,000 new jobs.
The U.S. jobless rate, meanwhile, slipped to 3.9% from 4.2% and drifted to a new pandemic low. The rate stood at 3.5% right before the pandemic.
The reason for the sharp decline: A separate survey of households from which the rate is derived actually showed a much bigger increase in employment for the second month in a row. also wage rate increased but not as much as inflation
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All those retiring boomers are going to thro the metrics off for years.
And of those youngsters entering the work force, it will be interesting to see their quality of work ethic after they, their peers, teachers, and parents taking two years off.
[American Thinker] Sen. Tom Cotton took a lot of opprobrium for bringing up, during this year's stimulus debates in Congress, that some really vile people would get checks, given the poor construction of the Democrat-led law.
"If you see something, say something."
Why a killer like Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the last living 2013 Boston Bomber, would somehow need a federal stimulus check, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer, went unanswered. What the heck would he spend it on, other than to give it to his terrorist buddies? All sorts of jailbirds would get them — Chapo Guzmán? The shoe bomber? The underwear bomber? Susan Smith? Scott Peterson? The subhumans who shot up the synagogues in Philadelphia and Poway, Calif.? The freak who machine-gunned the theater in Aurora, Colorado? Parkland killer Nikolas Cruz? The demonic animal who killed the kindly black churchgoers who welcomed him into their Bible study in South Carolina? The dirtbags who shot Reps. Gabby Gifford and Steve Scalise? Ghislaine Maxwell and, while he was alive, Jeffrey Epstein? Based on the logic of the bill, they all could get their stimulus checks, too.
It was grotesque. Nobody wants the scum of the earth voting while they are incarcerated. But somehow, Democrats wanted to hand them money.
But when Cotton brought the matter up as a legitimate point of concern in Congress, which is actually his job, he was raked through the press as a fear-monger, and worse still, called a liar by someone who should have known better: the chief fact-checker for the Washington Post, Glenn Kessler.
Turns out Cotton was right, though, and now prosecutors are trying to claw back that stimulus check to compensate Tsarnaev's victims. According to Newsweek:
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Globetrotters with no visible sources of income, how exactly does that happen? I doubt it was the first US Government compensation he or his late brother have received.
The Florida-based company, which was launched in 2013, has fired all of its employees
'Cyber Ninjas is shutting down. All employees have been let go,' Rod Thomson, the company's representative, said Thursday
According to LinkedIn, the firm employs fewer than 12 people
Maricopa County Judge John Hannah said he would levy a $50,000 fine for each day they refused to hand over documents relating to the audit
The report from election officials in Maricopa includes a record of nearly 80 misleading or false claims made by Cyber Ninjas in their audit
The $6million, Republican-backed review of the 2020 presidential election in Arizona's largest county officially ended in September and found no proof that the Arizona election was stolen from Donald Trump
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The fraud wasn't hidden; it occurred in broad daylight. Mail-in ballots in a mass scale, with zero in the way of chain of custody or audit trail.
"Harvested" and "cured" ballots -- by anti-Trump operatives paid for out of a tech oligarch's $440 million slush fund.
Collusion by all of the nation's media outlets to destroy any and all mention of clear, dispositive, massive forensic endence of one candidate's gross corruption and lies about same.
Organized nationwide lawfare and bullying of the other party's election officials by one party's bully boy lawyers.
Ridiculous shit involving floating-point decimal tallies of votes by a partisan voting machine company...midnight suitcases full of ballots... unmarked vans bearing tens of thousands of ballots all marked one way and only for the senile muppet atop one party's ticket... 11th-hour "everyone out of the building, fire drill" bullshit resulting in only one party's election monitors being forced out of the counting room: all of this third-world banana republic nonsense documented on video....
All of the above was legal. It all happened in front of our eyes. The party that staged all of it has admitted openly to it, and one of their media hacks has openly admitted that they "rigged" the election.
We all know this. All the legal skirmishing now is just Swamp Kabuki. Sound & fury, signifying nothing.
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None of that chicanery was legal, Merrick. It just is traditional in certain states and precincts, though generally on a much smaller scale. In 2020 we had a perfect storm of reduced supervision because of widespread mail-in ballots and panicking Democrats doing all the things as much as possible instead of a few of the things. But I recall discussions here in previous election years about precincts with over 100% participation, voting machines jiggered to deliver votes preferentially to Democrats, harvesting ballots from retirement homes/immigrants/the homeless, multiple registrations at multiple addresses for a single person, registrations for imaginary people at imaginary addresses, bins of uncounted votes “found” in car trunks and storage closets, piles of uncounted ballots for the wrong party found in the garbage....
Here are the Rantburg search results going back to 2002 for the term “vote fraud”. It did catch fraud outside of America as well, but gives a representative sample .
[OneIndia] India and China have failed to finalise a date for the next round of military level talks. The talks are aimed at de-escalating tensions along the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh.
The deadlock continues since Beijing has opposed the proposal made by New Delhi to resolve the remaining issues in the friction points along the LAC in one go.
The last time the two sides met was at the Chuhul-Moldo border on October 10 2021. The Indian side has sent several proposals for the next round of talks, but the response has not been favourable.
India has maintained that all friction points between Depsang and Chumar should be collectively tackled during the military commander level talks. China on the other hand has not been consistent in its replies. It keeps changing its demands and hence the Indian side is not aware of which of the proposals need to be taken seriously, Hindustan Times reported.
"The Indian side...made constructive suggestions for resolving the remaining areas but the Chinese side was not agreeable and also could not provide any forward-looking proposals," a statement after the last round of talks read.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... the psy ops by China are in full swing. First it renamed places in Arunachal Pradesh and then a video of the Chinese flag being hoisted in Galwan Valley went viral.
These type of operations have been going on since the standoff between China and India began along the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh. It may be recalled that in September 16 2020, the Chinese PLA had tried to bring down the morale of the Indian troops.
The Chinese had put up loudspeakers and were making announcements in Hindi about the futility about being deployed at these heights. Constant attempts also made to tell the Indian soldiers that they are deployed here in the winter only because of the fancies of their leaders in New Delhi.
This was done after the Indian Army thwarted a PLA attempt on Rezang La and Rechin La Ridgeline. India had on August 29 repositioned its troops and dominated the heights of Finger 4 on the north bank of Pangong Tso. This move by India had taken the Chinese aback and today the PLA is resorting to psy-ops to demoralise the Indian troops.
In a tweet Global Times said, "in the Galwan Valley near the border with #India, under the characters "Never yield an inch of land," PLA soldiers send new year greetings to Chinese people on January 1, 2022."
China's national flag rise over Galwan Valley on the New Year Day of 2022. This national flag is very special since it once flew over Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Shen Shiwe who is part of the China state affiliated media said in another tweet.
Last week, India rejected China renaming some places in Arunachal Pradesh and asserted that the state has "always been" and will "always be" an integral part of India as assigning "invented" names does not alter this fact.
India's assertion came in response to Beijing announcing Chinese names for 15 more places in Arunachal Pradesh which the neighbouring country claims as South Tibet.
"We have seen such reports. This is not the first time China has attempted such a renaming of places in the state of Arunachal Pradesh. China had also sought to assign such names in April 2017," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said.
"Arunachal Pradesh has always been, and will always be an integral part of India. Assigning invented names to places in Arunachal Pradesh does not alter this fact," he said.
[OneIndia] A day after India asserted that the area where China is currently building a bridge across the Pangong lake in eastern Ladakh has been under illegal occupation of that country for around 60 years, Beijing claimed that its "infrastructure construction" is aimed at safeguarding China's territorial illusory sovereignty.India on Thursday said the bridge being built by China across the Pangong lake in eastern Ladakh is in an area that has been under illegal occupation of China for around 60 years and it has never accepted such action.
At a media briefing in New Delhi, External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said "as regards reports about a bridge being made by the Chinese side on Pangong lake, the government has been monitoring this activity closely." "This bridge is being constructed in areas that have been under illegal occupation by China for around 60 years now.
As you are well aware India has never accepted such illegal occupation," he said. Bagchi said India has been taking all necessary steps to ensure that its security interests are fully protected. Asked for his reaction to Bagchi's remarks, China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told a media briefing here on Friday that "I'm not aware of the situation you mentioned" without directly mentioning the Pangong Tso bridge.
"I want to stress that China's infrastructure construction on its territory entirely falls within its illusory sovereignty and is aimed at safeguarding China's territorial illusory sovereignty and security as well as peace and stability in the China-India border", Wang said.
Satellite images of the bridge being built in the Khurnak area surfaced on Monday following which military experts said the aim of the construction is to ensure that the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) is able to quickly mobilise its troops in the region. China has been focusing on strengthening its military infrastructure after Indian troops captured several strategic peaks on the southern bank of the Pangong lake in August 2020 after the PLA attempted to intimidate them in the area.
The Chinese move to build a key bridge came in the midst of the eastern Ladakh border standoff that had erupted on May 5, 2020, following a violent mostly peaceful clash in the Pangong lake areas. As a result of a series of military and diplomatic talks, the two sides completed the disengagement process last year in the north and south banks of the Pangong lake and in the Gogra area.
The 13th round of Corps Commander-level military talks in October ended in a stalemate with the Indian Army saying that the "constructive suggestions" made by it were not agreeable to the Chinese side. In their virtual diplomatic talks on November 18, India and China had agreed to hold the 14th round of military talks at an early date to achieve the objective of complete disengagement at the remaining friction points in eastern Ladakh.
Each side currently has around 50,000 to 60,000 troops along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the sensitive sector.
[BenarNews] Moslem leaders in the southern Philippines on Friday urged President Rodrigo Duterte to repeal a recently signed law criminalizing child marriage, saying it was part of their culture.
The law, which became effective last month but was announced late Thursday, prohibits the marriage of anyone younger than 18.
The community in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Moslem Mindanao does not support the law, said Romeo Sema, the region’s labor and employment minister.
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Glenmore: I think by now they've crunched the numbers out of the databases from the initial wave in China and have lists of any potential helpful drug to generate studies to prove they'll all give you strokes.
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.
[Breitbart] CLAIM: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor: "We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition, many on ventilators," from coronavirus.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] 
[BBC] A UK defence source said it was unlikely the collision was deliberate.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] 
[BBC] Driving around early on Friday morning, the smell of burnt vehicles was still in the air. Few people were about, many too afraid to come out into the streets.
[REGNUM] State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin assured that everything will be done so that the law on life imprisonment for pedophiles was adopted in January 2022.
[MarketWatch] The U.S. created a lackluster 199,000 new jobs in December, signaling that persistent labor shortages and another major coronavirus outbreak are holding back the economy.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] 
[BenarNews] 
