[Al Jazeera] Two men have been gored to death in a bull-taming festival event in southern India, a day after authorities temporarily lifted a ban on the traditional event. That worked well.
Up to 90 people were also injured on Sunday as rampaging bulls sprinted through Rapoosal, a village in the state of Tamil Nadu. Makes football look tame.
The sport, known as Jallikattu, was banned by India's top court banned it in 2014 on grounds of animal cruelty. Two dead and ninety injured sounds like participant cruelty.
Yet, the government on Saturday passed an executive order to temporarily overturn the ban following week-long protests, and Jallikattu events were subsequently held in towns and villages across Tamil Nadu.
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I'm sorry, it seems like too much government control. The people should be allowed to participate in this sport until their average IQ is higher than a geranium.
[Free Beacon] Fox News signed former State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf as a new contributor, the news network announced Monday.
Harf "will offer national security and political analysis," Fox said. She will make her first appearance Monday night on Marcha MacCallum’s program The First 100 Days, Deadline first reported.
Before her most recent job as senior adviser of strategic communications for Secretary of State John Kerry, Harf was a deputy spokeswoman at the State Department from July 2013 to May 2015. She was the active spokeswoman for about two months in 2015.
Harf also worked on former President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign, where she served as a campaign spokeswoman on national security issues and collaborated on national security and communications strategy.
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My decision to cancel my DirecTV and WSJ subscriptions last year looks smarter all the time. I take in no Murdoch owned media products exactly because of this sort of staffing problem.
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Looking forward to seeing the Harf in a brightly colored club dress.
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Contributor? WTF can she possibly contribute? Will Retired Rear Admiral John F. Kirby be joining FOX soon as well? Who will be left to drive the clown car? Is this an attempt to make Bob Beckel and Geraldo Rivera look centrist? I have so many questions.
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When I do watch TV news, I watch Fox. I do that once every four years, to catch the returns on Election Night.
Other than that, I haven't watched ANY news on TV in more than 20 years. CNN, MSNBC, and the other lamestream media spew out 100% liberal garbage; Fox spews out "only" 50% liberal garbage in accordance with their "fair and balanced" nonsense.
I'll start watching TV news again when there's a TV channel that spews out ZERO percent liberal garbage.
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Next up. Sandra Fluke for health reporting....
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Am I recalling correctly that the Murdoch sons have taken over running things from their father? But perhaps this is only to provide balance for the Nigel Farage hire.
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Her pear shape and pea brain make her perfect for TV gabfests.
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I get that the Murdock boys want to widen the leftards they put on the various commentary shows to continue the meme of fair and balanced, but Harf is actually not the kind of clever foil they hope to offer up. She is not clever or quick or well informed or funny. She is little more than a slow target drone, and hence, kind of sad.
[Al Jazeera] The Gambia ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by 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... 's ex-ruler, Yahya Jammeh, plundered the state coffers in his final weeks in power, stealing millions of dollars and shipping out luxury vehicles by cargo plane, according to an aide to new president Adama Barrow.
Jammeh, who ruled the small West African country for 22 years, flew into exile late on Saturday to Equatorial Guinea.
He had refused to concede defeat in a December 1 election but eventually relinquished power after a delegation of West African leaders convinced him to step down, even as troops from neighbouring countries entered The Gambia.
On Sunday, hundreds of Banjul residents cheered a military force by ECOWAS, the West African regional bloc, as it entered the capital to provide security and allow Barrow, who has been in neighbouring Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... for more than a week, to return and take power.
But amid growing controversy over the assurances offered to Jammeh to guarantee his departure, Barrow adviser Mai Fatty said the new administration had discovered that millions of dollars had recently been stolen.
"The coffers are largely empty," he told news hounds in the Senegalese capital, Dakar.
"Over two weeks, over 500m dalasi ($11 million) were withdrawn" by Jammeh, he said. "As we take over, the government of The Gambia is in financial distress."
Fatty also said that a Chadian cargo plane had transported luxury goods out of the country on Jammeh's behalf, in his final hours in power, including an unknown number of vehicles.
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He had an excellent mentor. Plundering, it's just what they do.
[Breitbart] The government must consult Parliament in order to invoke Article 50 and take Britain out of the European Union, the Supreme Court has ruled. Yes, I know PM Wilson is lying. It's just what they do.
That means Parliament must take a vote on whether to invoke Article 50, which triggers the process to take Britain out of the EU, before Prime Minister Theresa May, can do so.
May had originally set a timetable to invoke Article 50 in March, but it remains to be seen whether that deadline will now be moved. Skipping down to the big lie.
"This is your decision. The Government will implement what you decide." The wording suggested that the people’s decision was a direct mandate to the government.
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The little people will have a vote in the next election, and now there are alternatives to Labour, the Conservatives, and the Liberal Democrats as a junior party -- and turning their back on Brexit might well be enough to bring Nigel Farage back in the role of Donald Trump or, at worst, kingmaker.. If the oligarchy wants to retain power, it needs to be seen making Brexit happen, it seems to me.
[WAPO] TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Taiwanese company that assembles Apple’s iPhones and other electronics is considering investing $7 billion in a U.S. factory to produce display panels that would create as many as 50,000 jobs.
Foxconn CEO Terry Gou discussed the potential expansion Sunday during a company meeting in Taiwan. His comments were broadcast by Taiwanese media.
Foxconn, founded by Gou in 1974, assembles smartphones and other devices for Apple, Sony, Blackberry and other brands. Most of its operations are in mainland China, where its vast factories employ more than 1 million people.
[Free Beacon] Rep. Mike Pompeo (R., Kansas) was confirmed Monday night as the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency for President Donald Trump’s administration.
Pompeo is the third person appointed by Trump to be confirmed to his cabinet position.
As head of the CIA, Pompeo will be mainly in charge of "managing a global spying network at a time of escalating security problems, including renewed aggression from Russia, the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and the splintering terror threat posed by the Islamic State," the Washington Post reported on Monday night.
[WAPO] The FBI in late December reviewed intercepts of communications between the Russian ambassador to the United States and retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn -- national security adviser to then-President-elect Trump -- but has not found any evidence of wrongdoing or illicit ties to the Russian government, U.S. officials said.
The calls were picked up as part of routine electronic surveillance of Russian officials and agents in the United States, which is one of the FBI’s responsibilities, according to the U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss counterintelligence operations.
Nonetheless, the fact that communications by a senior member of Trump’s national security team have been under scrutiny points up the challenge facing the intelligence community as it continues its wide-ranging probe of Russian government influence in the U.S. election and whether there was any improper back-channel contacts between Moscow and Trump associates and acquaintances.
[Daily Caller] BuzzFeed editor in chief Ben Smith finally explained why the outlet published an opposition memo on President Donald Trump: CNN did it first.
CNN originally posted a heavily hedged report on the Trump-Russia dossier Jan. 10. Later that day, BuzzFeed posted the entirety of the memo with a note at the top of the piece saying, "The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors."
The 35-page dossier is a collection of memos alleging that Trump has ties to Russia. Former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele prepared the dossier, and went into hiding on extended holiday after CNN and BuzzFeed published it.
BuzzFeed faced harsh backlash for journalists and the Trump administration for publishing the dossier.
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Smith wrote a piece in The New York Times Monday that gave some reasons for why BuzzFeed went ahead with publishing the dossier:
"First, the documents were in wide circulation among top intelligence and elected officials and news organizations. They were being fought over — and acted on — at the highest levels of power. But the rest of the country was getting only the occasional glimpse of those battles, never the source documents themselves."
Funny, BuzzFeed seemed to be remarkably disinterested in similar situations from 2008 onwards. Mr Smith came on board in 2011; apparently he found nothing of 'interest' in the years since then.
[InformationLiberation] In military bases across the country, portraits of Obama are coming down and Trump memes are reportedly taking their place.
Federal policy dictates that all Obama portraits in court houses, post offices, government buildings and military installations needed to be removed by 12:01 p.m. on Friday, January 20th. Trump portraits need to take their place, but not everyone has received their official portraits yet.
These photos shared on social media purportedly show what's taken their place in the meantime."
[Al Jazeera] The daughter of Pakistain's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... was involved in the Panama Papers scandal, a German newspaper said, as it backed up an earlier claim.
German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung on Monday posted documents on Twitter confirming that Maryam Safdar is the beneficial owner of offshore companies named in Panama Papers.
Al Jazeera searched the database of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) that includes 11.5 million documents leaked from the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, and found Safdar's details.
Safdar was listed as the beneficiary of Nescoll Limited, an offshore company registered in British Virgin Islands. Her brother Hussain Nawaz Sharif was listed as the signatory.
Allegations of corruption against the Sharif family are being heard in Pakistain's Supreme Court.
Prime Minister Sharif told the court in a written submission last year that the leak was not the proof against him, as his children were not his dependents.
He said he was not holding any offshore companies. Sharif also claimed that he had paid tax and declared all of his assets in 2013.
The Panama Papers leak revealed how Mossack Fonseca allegedly helped current and former world leaders, as well as businessmen, criminals, celebrities and sports stars, evade or avoid tax via anonymously-owned shell companies and offshore accounts.
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[Al Jazeera] Jordan's chief Islamic justice Ahmad Hilayel has resigned abruptly two days after he delivered a sermon in which he chastised Arab Gulf leaders for not doing enough to support Jordan financially.
Hilayel in his Friday sermon demanded that the leaders of Gulf states share their wealth with his country, at statement that was seen by some commentators as a national embarrassment.
"Things have reached a boiling point with us," Hilayel said, addressing the Gulf leaders. "Your brothers in Jordan are facing danger all around them, where is your help; where is your money and where are your riches?" he added.
Hilayel's sermon drew sharp public criticism for its unusual tone, that, according to Abdel Karim al-Dughmi, a Member of Parliament, was tantamount to "straight up begging".
Speaking to Al Jazeera from Amman, al-Dughmi said: "I don't accept what Hilayel said because we should not turn into beggars from the pulpit.
"If we have the right to money from the Gulf as per our mutual agreements, it should be demanded though different channels. Not like that."
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Hmm. I sense desperation. Perhaps we could convince them of the correctness of the idea of moving the US embassy to Jerusalem somehow.
h/t Instapundit
Russia will land its first cosmonauts on the moon in 2031.
Meanwhile, Nasa says we could colonise the moon by 2022 for a total cost of just $10 billion (£6.4 billion).
But one important question for our future life on moon is yet to be answered - whether or not beer can be brewed in space.
Now a group of students are setting out to answer this question, by brewing a batch of beer on the moon.
A team of University of California, San Diego students are competing to send an experiment to the moon, aboard a spacecraft built by Indian startup TeamIndus. Because Columbus wasn't a dope
On the moon where there is gravity you could have the traditional beer that is carbonated.
In space... little more tricky. Microgravity keeps the CO2 from separating with the liquid, just like oil and water mixed in zero g don't separate. It makes it a bit problematic after it is drunk since you will burp and it would be a liquid burp.
There is actually a brewery in Australia that is perfecting a flat beer that can be taken and drunk in zero g safely while still tasting similar to what we drink on the ground.
It finally sunk in this morning, Donald Trump is officially the President of the United States. It’s his first official day doing presidential things, so his critics will arguably be trying to tear down his policies and cabinet picks. However, that’s not what most people criticized over the inaugural weekend.
They went after Donald’s ten-year-old son, Barron.
(3) the term “mental injury” means harm to a child’s psychological or intellectual functioning which may be exhibited by severe anxiety, depression, withdrawal or outward aggressive behavior, or a combination of those behaviors, which may be demonstrated by a change in behavior, emotional response or cognition;
That is clearly the intent of these leftist child abusers. Sessions should file Felony charges against anyone who targets the children of anyone, not just politicians.
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.
[Al Jazeera] Two men have been gored to death in a bull-taming festival event in southern India, a day after authorities temporarily lifted a ban on the traditional event.
[Free Beacon] Fox News signed former State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf as a new contributor, the news network announced Monday.
[Al Jazeera] The 
He had an excellent mentor. Plundering, it's just what they do. 
[Breitbart] The government must consult Parliament in order to invoke Article 50 and take Britain out of the European Union, the Supreme Court has ruled.
[Daily Caller] BuzzFeed editor in chief Ben Smith finally explained why the outlet published an opposition memo on President Donald Trump: CNN did it first.
[InformationLiberation] In military bases across the country, portraits of Obama are coming down and Trump memes are reportedly taking their place.
