[Townhall] It was one week ago today that the Department of Justice Inspector General [OIG] issued a scathing report depicting fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe as a serial liar.
According to OIG, McCabe lied under oath to FBI and inspector general investigators three times. The report also showed McCabe lied to former FBI Director James Comey about leaking sensitive information the press. As a result, McCabe has been referred to the U.S. Attorney in Washington D.C. for criminal prosecution.
But McCabe, whose statements from his attorneys show he has little concern over potential prosecution, is undeterred and appears to be cashing in on the situation.
"Mr. McCabe also quietly shopped a book proposal recently to publishing houses. He received offers from multiple publishers, according to several industry executives, and came to an agreement to publish the book with one of the major houses. His literary agent, Todd Shuster, declined to comment," the New York Times reports. "Mr. McCabe is said to have recently sold the rights to his own book about his time at the F.B.I., which is likely to excoriate Mr. Trump."
Popped off handcuffs and leg restraints did he? Grabs soft drink, ham sammich, boards MARTA for parts unknown. If you see this man, it's probably not worth the bother of calling Atlanta law enforcement authorities.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A former Liberian warlord known as 'Jungle Jabbah' was sentenced to 30 years in a U.S. prison on Thursday
Mohammed Jabbateh was convicted of lying to gain asylum to the U.S.
During the height of Liberia's first civil war from 1992 to 1995, Jabbateh is said to have ordered or committed rapes, cannibalism, mutilation, and other crimes
Jabbateh had one town chief murdered and then ordered his widow to cook her husband´s heart
Two dozen witnesses, including 17 Liberian victims, testified in the trial
The 51-year-old has lived in East Landsdowne, Pennsylvania since the late 1990s
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[NOLA] A 41-year-old Slidell woman faces up to 10 years in prison after being convicted of stealing another woman's identity via social media and using fake credentials to obtain a high paying job at the spice company founded by the late entrepreneur Al Copeland.
Cindy T. White, who was found guilty this week by a St. Tammany Gay Pareeh jury of theft of identity over $1,000, will be sentenced Tuesday (April 24) by Judge Scott Gardner of the 22nd Judicial District, North Shore District Attorney Warren Montgomery's office reported.
During her opening statement in White's trial, Assistant District Attorney Casey Dieck described the credentials that White had listed on her resume, including a bachelor's degree from Tulane University and a master's degree from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Pointing to the defendant in the courtroom, Dieck said, "That's not this person. This person stole the victim's hard work and used it to get a six-figure salary and benefits to boot," the District Attorney's Office reported in a news release issued Friday.
The crime came to light in April of 2016 when a Diversified Foods employee contacted the St. Tammany Gay Pareeh Sheriff's Office regarding White, who had provided a resume with fraudulent social security and driver's license numbers to obtain an executive level job. White had been hired in September 2015 as a human resources manager at the company's Covington office at a salary of $95,000 per year. Five months later, she was promoted to senior human resources director and her annual pay was raised to $105,000, the District Attorney's Office reported.
After a closer inspection of White's personnel file, Sherlocks found several discrepancies and determined that White did not possess the educational background listed on her resume. The investigation revealed that she had copied the credentials directly from the Linked In account of someone with a similar name and had obtained that woman's Social Security and driver's license numbers through an unspecified online site, Montgomery's office reported.
When authorities traced White's actual Social Security number, they learned she had been incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in New Orleans in February 1997 for theft, forgery and malfeasance in office. At the time, White worked for the Orleans Gay Pareeh Sheriff's Office and was accused of assuming a co-worker's identity and emptying the victim's bank account, before being identified by surveillance photos, according to the news release.
White pleaded guilty to two counts of forgery on Sept. 27, 1997, and was placed on probation. But court records indicate her probation was terminated in 1999 because the court received information that she was deceased. White also had pleaded guilty in Jefferson Gay Pareeh to attempted theft of goods on December 4, 1998, authorities said.
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In other GNO news, Wilborn P. Nobles III is suspected of having a good p0ker face:
"Lusher Charter School 8th grader Sarah Pigg said she and her classmates were horrified last year when one of their classmates threatened to shoot up the campus one day in mid-December."
Meanwhile, out on the coast, a seemingly endless trickle of little screechers practically stormed my shanty: "Hey, hey, ho, ho. NRA has got to go." Looked like high schoolers, sounded like middle schoolers. Dunno. Maybe they spontaneously joined forces. Distressing amount of supportive honking for a disproportionately military area. Helicopter overhead. Multiple news trucks.
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She had been hired as a human resources manager at a salary of $95,000 per year. Five months later, she was promoted to senior human resources director and her annual pay was raised to $105,000. Sound like she could do the job well, if so what is the problem?
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From the article:
Company officials became suspicious when White had trouble "performing duties within the educational level and experience listed on her resume" and when she began delegating many tasks assigned to her, according to the DA's news release.
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Leaving aside the question of whether job requirements and performance expectations are patriarchal and racist, what the heck does a human resources manager do that is worth $100,000 a year?
[Washington Examiner] Former FBI agent Terry Albury is likely to receive between three and five years in prison when he’s sentenced for giving classified information to reporters, raising questions of a double standard benefiting the men who led the bureau at the time of his leaks.
Albury’s illegal activities, which his attorneys call "an act of conscience," began in February 2016, when the bureau was led by Director James Comey, and continued until August 2017, when FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s three-month stint as acting director ended.
Albury, allegedly motivated by discrimination as the only African-American agent in Minneapolis, is believed to have sent The Intercept a guide to informant recruitment and rules for seizing records from journalists. Albury pleaded guilty Tuesday to two felony counts, and prosecutors want 4-5 years in prison. Albury’s attorneys say 3-4 years would be appropriate.
Comey and McCabe, meanwhile, face no criminal charges, though Republicans in Congress are clamoring for action in response to their interactions with the media.
Comey admittedly leaked memos about his conversations with President Trump. Some of the memos reportedly contained classified information. McCabe, meanwhile, authorized a self-serving 2016 leak to reporters about an investigation of the Clinton Foundation, before allegedly lying about it to Comey, FBI agents, and Justice Department inspector general employees.
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...raising questions of a double standard benefiting the men who led the bureau at the time of his leaks.
Um, no. The question of a double standard has not been raised; it's irrefutable fact, looking at ya right there, staring you in the face. Now apply that standard evenly, from the top down.
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“Mr. Albury was entrusted by the F.B.I. with a security clearance, which included a responsibility to protect classified national defense information,” Bill Priestap, assistant director of the bureau’s Counterintelligence Division, said in a statement on Tuesday. “Instead, he knowingly disclosed that material to someone not authorized to receive it.”
Over at The Conservative Treehouse it was pointed out that something major is being telegraphed here. Bill Priestap is back in the public eye and being used to front a message that the law regarding disclosing classified information will be upheld.
[FOX] Smallville" actress Allison Mack has been arrested for her alleged role in a sex slave cult, multiple reports revealed Friday.
The 35-year-old was last seen in March running after cult leader Keith Raniere as police hauled him away from a $10,000-a-week Mexican villa where the pair had reportedly been hiding out.
Raniere, co-founder of violent sex cult Nxivm, allegedly kept women as slaves and branded his initials into their skin. He was charged by federal prosecutors with running the notorious group.
Journalist Frank Parlato, who first broke the story about the cult, told the New York Post that Mack came up with the idea of branding initiates' skin, near their groin area.
"She started as a slave and she became a slave master," Parlato alleged. "Her nickname among defectors is 'Pimp Mack.'"
Mack's fellow "Smallville" co-star Kristin Kreuk was also accused of helping to recruit women as sex slaves into Nxivm. She has denied the allegations.
[BBC] The "Angel of Dieppe" has died at age 103 - more than 75 years after she helped save the lives of many Canadian and British soldiers.
Sister Agnès-Marie Valois became a Canadian military legend for treating soldiers captured by German forces after the failed Dieppe landing.
She has received honours from both her native country of France and Canada.
More than 3,000 of about 6,000 Allied soldiers were captured or killed - the majority of them Canadian.
Sister Agnès was born in 1914 in Rouen Seine-Inferior, France and became an Augustinian nun at the convent of the Hôtel-Dieu in her hometown in the 1936. A trained nurse, she was one of about 10 Augustinian nurses who received the wounded and dead from the bloody battle of Dieppe.
On 19 August 1942, about 6,100 Allied soldiers tried to storm the beach at the port town of Dieppe, France. The operation was considered a total disaster. Troops found themselves blocked from access points by concrete obstacles and overwhelmed by German firepower.
Within 10 hours, some 3,367 soldiers were killed or captured.
#5
Claims have been made that 420 increases traffic fatalities by 12% across the country. However, haven't been able to find the research that generated that number.
An E. coli outbreak traced to romaine from Yuma, Arizona has sickened at least 60 people
The Yuma area grows 90 percent of the leafy greens Americans eat in winter
The CDC and has advised people to throw out romaine or lettuce mixes that may contain romaine if it could have come from Arizona or they don't know its source
One expert says that it may be years before the E. coli is killed off from the contaminated fields
(1) farmer plants crop in poor soil
(2) because it's supposed to grow 'organic' crop, use of liquid manure from nearby feedlots is encouraged; can't use chemical fertilizer (it would be sterile)
(3) there's little natural rainfall in the area (Yuma, AZ) so what gets on the plants stays on the plants
(4) crops are harvested with bacteria built in
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[NYPOST] Two sheriff’s deputies have been killed in Florida Thursday‐ bumped off in broad daylight ‐ during a suspected ambush, according to authorities.
The cops were eating at a Chinese restaurant in the city of Trenton, about 35 miles west of Gainesville, when the shooter walked up and started blasting through a window, officials said in a statement.
The gunman shot both deputies dead and then took his own life. Officials said no one else was injured. The incident happened around 3 p.m.
The cops involved were identified Thursday night as Sergeant Noel Ramirez, 30, and Deputy Sheriff Taylor Lindsey, 25, of the Gilchrist County Sheriff’s Office.
The cops involved were deputies with the Gilchrist County Sheriff’s Office.
"As fellow deputies responded to the scene, they found the shooter deceased outside the business, and both Deputy Sheriffs where they died of their wounds," officials said.
The sheriff’s office had initially released a statement on their social media pages Thursday, saying there were "no suspects on the lam." While they didn’t offer any other details, the Holmes County Sheriff’s Office was able to provide some information on their Facebook page.
"About an hour ago, two deputies with the Gilchrist County Sheriff’s Office were shot and killed in a suspected ambush," officials said. "Please keep the families of these deputies, Sheriff Bobby Schultz, and the rest of their law enforcement family in your prayers."
Other law enforcement agencies in the surrounding area and across Florida were also offering their condolences on Thursday evening as word spread about the shooting.
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Strange. Twp law enforcement officers murdered in public in broad daylight and no description of the perpetrator.
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He's dead and had a non-Arabic/Ebonics name. Sounds like white trash criminality:
"Deputies responding to the scene found the suspected shooter dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound inside his car, officials said. The suspect was later identified as 59-year-old John Hubert Highnote of Bell, a town in Gilchrist County. "
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Wild Bill Hickok taught you to sit in the back of the room facing the door. Doesn't anyone teach history any more? /rhet question
[All Africa] Swaziland's King Mswati III said Thursday that he was officially changing the African kingdom's name to eSwatini. Thereby showing he's hip and with it in the digital age.
Africa's last absolute monarch, King Mswati III announced the changes at celebrations marking 50 years of Swazi independence from Britannia and his 50th birthday. Somebody else had already called dibs on "Wakanda."
"I would like to announce that from today onwards, our country will be known as the Kingdom of eSwatini," the king said at Golden Jubilee celebrations in the second city of Manzini . Now they gotta change all the road signs, all the money, official documents... It'll give them something to do for the next few years.
eSwatini means "land of the Swazis" in the local Swati language. "Swaziland," of course, means... ummm... something else.
Unlike some countries, the landlocked nation between South Africa and Mozambique did not change its name after winning independence from Britannia in 1968. They'd have had to change all the road signs, and the money, and all the official documents...
"African countries on getting independence reverted to their ancient names before they were colonized. So from now on the country will be officially be known as the Kingdom of eSwatini," the king said. But if "Swaziland" means the same thing as "eSwatine," why bother? I mean Cambodia decided to be Kampuchea, both of which are pronounced approximately the same, and look what happened. And then there's the matter of Dahomey. Nobody knows where it went.
He also said many people abroad confused the country with Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... ."Harriet, are you sure this is Geneva? It don't look like the postcards."
"Stop worrying, Bob! Quick! Take my picture with the king! Woo! He goosed me!"
"Whoa! My wife! Goosed by the king of Switzerland!"
"Whenever we go abroad, people refer to us as Switzerland," the king said. "They expect us to yodel!"
Known for his lavish lifestyle in a nation with crushing poverty and an HIV/AIDS rate of 27 percent, King Mswati III has ruled by decree over his 1.3 million people since taking over the throne from his father at the age of 18 in 1986. Royal decree number 578: All left-handed people are required to move to the left hand side of the country. Any leftists living on the right side of the country will be executed, effective May 8th."
One of his father's more than 60 sons, King Mswati III has 15 wives and more than two dozen children. "Hey, you! The comely young maiden! Yeah, you! You wanna be wife number 16?"
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And then there's the matter of Dahomey.
Beware of the Bight of Dahomey!
Its mouth is all funky and foamy
And roiled by a river
Just boiling with fever...
Oh, wait. I'm mistaken. That's Comey.
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Queenie is prolly just trying to get him out of the house palace and out of her hair so she can have a little peace and quiet. He seems a bit thick and annoying.
Also, who knew there was still a Commonwealth? Raise your hand!
[NYPOST] Gunmen on water scooters shot at a roving vendor on a beach in Cancun’s glittering hotel zone Thursday, an incident believed to be unprecedented for the Caribbean city. Nobody was maimed.
According to a police report, the afternoon shooting happened in front of a hotel in the heart of Cancun’s resort-studded strip.
The vendor ran for safety inside a restaurant and was not hurt. Tourist police cordoned off the area and recovered four bullets but were not able to locate the intended target.
Cancun ‐ especially its tourist areas ‐ has largely been spared the worst of the cartel-fueled violence afflicting many other parts of Mexico.
But there have been a number of eye-catching incidents of late as gangs fight for control of local drug dealing, and the city has registered 130 murders so far this year.
Also Thursday, police reported that three people were slain outside a bar located away from the hotel zone.
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Detroit or Baltimore not exotic enough if you want to experience this kind of tourism?
[WASHINGTONPOST] North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... has declared that he will suspend nuclear and missile tests starting Saturday and that he will shut down the site where the previous six nuclear tests were conducted.
The surprising announcement comes just six days before Kim is set to meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in, a precursor to a historic summit between Kim and President Trump. The U.S. president is set to meet Kim at the end of May or beginning of June, although a location has not yet been set.
Both Moon and Trump have been saying that North Korea is now willing to "denuclearize," a term that means different things to the two sides.
"North Korea has agreed to suspend all Nuclear Tests and close up a major test site," Trump tweeted shortly after the announcement from Pyongyang. "This is very good news for North Korea and the World ‐ big progress! Look forward to our Summit."
But Kim’s statement on Saturday made no mention of North Korea giving up its program. It simply signaled a freeze, apparently because the leader is satisfied with the rapid progress the country made last year, developing what it said was a "super large heavy warhead" and a missile capable of carrying it to the U.S. mainland.
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...he will shut down the site where the previous six nuclear tests were conducted.
Wasn't it reported that this site had become unusable due to massive collapse of the overlying mountain? If they currently don't have a test site, they might as well get some good PR out of it.
[The Intercept] Later this year, Amazon will begin accepting grocery orders from customers using the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the federal anti-poverty program formerly known as food stamps. As the nation’s largest e-commerce grocer, Amazon stands to profit more than any other retailer when the $70 billion program goes online after an initial eight-state pilot.
But this new revenue will effectively function as a double subsidy for the company: In Arizona, new data suggests that one in three of the company’s own employees depend on SNAP to put food on the table. In Pennsylvania and Ohio, the figure appears to be around one in 10. Overall, of five states that responded to a public records request for a list of their top employers of SNAP recipients, Amazon cracked the top 20 in four.
By 2021, Amazon is projected to handle 50 percent of all online sales in the United States. To accomplish this, it must add to the dozens of fulfillment centers that ensure the swift delivery of cheap televisions and shampoo bottles to nearly every corner of the nation. And to finance this expansion, the company will doubtless continue to leverage the promise of full-time jobs with benefits that it has used to win more than $1.2 billion in incentives from state and local governments so far.
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] 'This scoping process begins the first step in developing a responsible path forward. I look forward to personally visiting the communities most affected by this process and hearing their concerns'
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[BREITBART] Fresno State Professor Randa Jarrar has requested leave from her teaching duties this spring, according to her Twitter account and information provided to Breitbart News by the university.
Jarrar, a professor of English at Fresno State, is facing quite the backlash after she published several tweets celebrating the death of former First Lady Barbara Bush.
"Barbara Bush was a generous and smart and amazing racist who, along with her husband, raised a war criminal. F**k outta here with your nice words," Jarrar tweeted on Tuesday.
In a separate tweet, Jarrar said that the news made her "happy" because Barbara Bush’s death likely made George W. Bush upset.
After Jarrar’s tweet invoked a tidal wave of responses, the professor bragged that she could never be fired because she had tenure.
"Sweetie i work as a tenured professor," she tweeted at one user. "I make 100K a year doing that. i will never be fired. i will always have people wanting to hear what i have to say. even you are one of them!"
"Sweetie i work as a tenured professor," she tweeted at one user. "I make 100K a year doing that. i will never be fired. i will always have people wanting to hear what i have to say. even you are one of them!"
Following the backlash, Jarrar set her Twitter account to private. She edited her Twitter biography to add the line: "currently on leave from Fresno State."
In a comment to Breitbart News, Fresno State said that Professor Jarrar has "requested a leave" for the spring semester and will not be teaching classes.
In a public statement, Fresno State President Joseph Castro said that he was concerned by the remarks Jarrar made about Bush on Twitter.
On behalf of Fresno State, I extend my deepest condolences to the Bush family on the loss of our former First Lady, Barbara Bush. We share the deep concerns expressed by others over the personal comments made today by professor Randa Jarrar, a professor in the English Department at Fresno State.
Her statements were made as a private citizen, not as a representative at Fresno State.
Professor Jarrar’s expressed personal views and commentary are obviously contrary to the core values of our University, which include respect and empathy for individuals with divergent points of view, and a sincere commitment to mutual understanding and progress.
This is not the first incident at Fresno State featuring a crazed professor. In November, Fresno State Professor Gregory Thatcher was forced by a court to pay a $17,000 fine after he was caught on camera erasing the chalk messages of a pro-life student group.
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"she was named one of the most gifted writers of Arab origin under the age of 40"
Have you noticed that when the ball game is going slowly, the radio announcers regale us with statistics like "He has struck out more left-handed second basemen than any pitcher since 2005"?
From her website: "Adultery was the last Muslim taboo I hadn’t broken. When I finally did cheat, it helped me see that my marriage needed to end."
I think I've read enough.
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Does anyone know whether a 'gifted tenured Arab writer' can get a massive pay cut, say back to $50K? Because that seems to be the remedy here.
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...Fresno State's response is in welcome contrast to University of Missouri's a couple years ago - where they allowed the Usual Suspects to run rampant without so much as a whisper.
And took a 25% enrollment cut the following year.
Mike
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Have you noticed that when the ball game is going slowly, the radio announcers regale us with statistics like "He has struck out more left-handed second basemen than any pitcher since 2005"?
Then there are those on the big sports channels who do this as their primary coverage.
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SDSU College of Engineering and Alumni Association have no problem pitching me for $. My oldest son is due to graduate next month and they're already pitching him for Alumni $.
She'd be on every "I decline because"
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[DAWN] TOBA TEK SINGH: A woman, who was allegedly shot at and injured by her brother over a marriage dispute one month ago, and was locked in the house to hide the incident, breathed her last without any treatment in her house on Thursday.
The Kamalia city police registered the first information report with the sub-inspector Syed Inayat Ali as complainant, that the residents of Saran Dogran locality of Kamalia alerted them that Sobia Perveen, was allegedly shot at and injured by her brother Muhammad Tahir one month ago and the family did not take her to any hospital to conceal the incident.
When she died on Thursday, residents alerted the police, which got the body examined at the Kamalia Tehsil Headquarters hospital. The autopsy confirmed Sobia died due to bullet wounds. The family is on the lam.
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[DAWN] Acting on the directives of Chief Justice Saqib Nisar, Sindh Inspector General Police A.D Khowaja on Friday ordered the immediate withdrawal of security protocol provided to influential individuals not entitled to official security.
This order will see around 4,000 coppers returning to actual police duty in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... only, which to some extent will help control street crimes, officials said.
The provincial police chief directed Additional IGs of Karachi, Special Branch, CTD, Traffic, Crime Branch and DIGs of Karachi’s East, West and South Zone and CIA, DIGs of Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Sukkur, Larkana, Shaheed Benazirabad ranges, DIGs of SRP and SRR, the Commandant of SSU, Karachi, and all District SSPs in Sindh to withdraw the police security from those persons who are not legally entitled.
"The police security provided to all unauthorised persons shall immediately be withdrawn," reads the order issued by Khowaja.
An officer of Karachi police told Dawn that following this order around 4,000 coppers would be withdrawn from security duty in Karachi only, "which would help police immensely in terms of overcoming the shortcoming of manpower".
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^ Opens fine here (w. aggressive adblocking, etc.). Was it them that recently cut back to 2 freebies? I think it was the Post... but I could be wrong... between them and the Times and the Globe (or did they roll theirs back?), cookie-clearing's become a reflex lately. What a mess.
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Sixyears ago, the technology was only an idea presented at a TEDx talk. Boyan Slat, the 18-year-old presenter, had learned that cleaning up the tiny particles of plastic in the ocean could take nearly 80,000 years.
But, golly gee whiz, if you build an entire fleet of ships it could only take 4 to 5 years. Maybe. For varying assumptions on what the meaning of the word 'fleet' is.
[DAWN] Couples and alleged sex workers found guilty of breaking Islamic law were publicly whipped in Indonesia's Aceh on Friday, just a week after the province pledged to move the widely condemned practice indoors.
More than a thousand people, including dozens of tourists from neighbouring Malaysia, jeered and screamed abuse at the group as they were flogged outside a mosque in the capital Banda Aceh.
The three men and five women ‐ who included several college students ‐ were found guilty of violating religious law by either showing affection in public or for offering sexual services online, officials said.
Aceh is the only province in the world's most populous Moslem-majority country that imposes Islamic law and flogging is a common punishment for a range of offences ‐ from gambling to drinking alcohol to having gay sex or relations outside of marriage.
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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.
[Townhall] It was one week ago today that the Department of Justice Inspector General [OIG] issued a scathing report depicting fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe as a serial liar.
A book by English author Elys Dolan. I thought this might be useful if you are monitoring the Burg today Andrew. 
[NOLA] A 41-year-old Slidell woman faces up to 10 years in prison after being convicted of stealing another woman's identity via social media and using fake credentials to obtain a high paying job at the spice company founded by the late entrepreneur Al Copeland.
[FOX] Smallville" actress Allison Mack has been arrested for her alleged role in a sex slave cult, multiple reports revealed Friday.
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
North Korea
No worries Jarrar, Rantburg has found a match. 
[DAWN] TOBA TEK SINGH: A woman, who was allegedly shot at and injured by her brother over a marriage dispute one month ago, and was locked in the house to hide the incident, breathed her last without any treatment in her house on Thursday.
[DAWN] Couples and alleged sex workers found guilty of breaking Islamic law were publicly whipped in Indonesia's Aceh on Friday, just a week after the province pledged to move the widely condemned practice indoors.
