[Washington Examiner] The Justice Department has invited House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., to a classified briefing Thursday, a source familiar with the situation told the Washington Examiner.
The invitation comes after Nunes threatened to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt of Congress over the agency's resistance related to the chairman’s efforts to obtain documents related to the Russia investigation.
Nunes sent a classified letter to Sessions last month, which he said was not acknowledged. Then, he subpoenaed the Justice Department for the information, though never quite said what he was looking for in either notification.
The Justice Department declined Nunes' request, telling him last week in a letter that turning over that information could "risk severe consequences, including potential loss of human lives, damage to relationships with valued international partners, compromise of ongoing criminal investigations, and interference with intelligence activities."
The White House backed up the Justice Department’s letter to Nunes, a Justice Department official told the Washington Examiner.
[Daily Caller] WASHINGTON, D.C. ‐ Lawyers for Russian company Concord Management and Consulting, LLC, formally entered a "not guilty" plea in federal court Monday in a case Special Counsel Robert Mueller probably never thought would happen.
Mueller, weathering significant criticism that his Russian collusion case was thin, unveiled a grandiose indictment Feb. 16 against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies. The 13 Russians in question were charged with waging "information warfare" in the United States, interfering with the 2016 presidential election, and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Mueller generated headlines with the February indictment, safe in the knowledge the 13 Russians were beyond U.S. jurisdiction. Therefore, there would be no trial ‐ only sensational Russian collusion accusations.
Mueller may now have to try the case, and Concord’s lawyers have put the special counsel on notice. The Russian company’s lawyers intend to invoke "discovery" to obtain U.S. intelligence about what they knew of Russian activities.
"I guess Mueller thought it was a freebie, for sure," former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy told The Daily Caller News Foundation after the court proceeding. Emphasis added
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This is hilarious. Mueller indicts a bunch of Russians, essentially for being internet trolls. A grand and pointless gesture since the Russians, being godless commies, will never show up to face the cold steel of American Justice, but it keeps the story in the news.
Unexpectedly, one of the other parties shows up ready to throw down. Mueller is reduced to pleading the other party was not properly served, a stalling tactic normally used by the defense. Judge laughs. Defense says "I'm your huckleberry!" Discovery will be entertaining.
In This Country, we investigate crimes, not people.
Andy first year law student could tell you that.
Since when does a counter intelligence investigation turn into a criminal investigation?
Anyone? Bueller?
Any Judge that allows any of this to go forward needs to burn their robes.
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tw - it's from a Brad Pitt movie: What it means is easy enough. To be one’s huckleberry — usually as the phrase I’m your huckleberry — is to be just the right person for a given job, or a willing executor of some commission. Where it comes from needs a bit more explaining.
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I watched the video, but I’m no less confused by what “I’m your huckleberry,” means.
There are several purported meanings, the closest is "I'm the one you're looking for." or "I'm your man.". Take your pick. The expression is from the mid 19th century.
[TAMPABAY] A man with a concealed weapons permit pulled out a gun on a robber and shot him to death in Gainesville, police reported. "Stick 'em up!"
[BANG!]
"Rosebud!"
According to a report in the Gainesville Sun , the shooting appears to be in self defense and the shooter will not face charges. "I seen it! It wuz a fair shootin'!"
Police identified the dead man as Arkeen Bennett. The name of the shooter was not released. "A-yep! He wuz a bad 'un!"
At about 1:15 a.m. Monday, the man was returning home from the movies with a family member when Bennett pulled a gun and cocked it. "Yer money or yer life!"
The other man pulled a gun of his own and fired, striking Bennett, who ran to a vehicle and was driven away by someone else. The other man with the gun then called 911. Bennett was later found dead. "Do ya [BANG!] feel lucky, punk? [BANG!] Well, do you? [BANG!]"
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[THEDENVERCHANNEL] A police body camera video leaked to Contact7 Investigates shows the son of Denver Mayor Michael Hancock using a slur against an Aurora police officer during a traffic stop.
"My dad’s the mayor, you f---ing f--got," Jordan Hancock is shown saying in the video clip.
"Of Denver? Well you’re in Aurora," the officer responds.
"Guess what, I’m about to get you fired you f---ing b---h," Hancock is heard saying later.
The video clip sent to Contact7 Investigates by an anonymous source is only about 20 seconds long and ends with 22-year-old Hancock driving away. Denver7 requested the full video from Aurora police but the request was declined.
Denver7 has learned that after requesting a copy of Jordan Hancock’s ticket and the body camera video, the Aurora Police Department alerted the office of Denver’s mayor. APD said it notified Mayor Hancock's office as a "courtesy."
A traffic ticket issued to Jordan Hancock says he was driving 65 miles an hour in a 40 miles per hour zone. In the ticket, the officer wrote, "Attitude very poor-see video."
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...Young Master Hancock needs some manners.
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Entitlement? Given dad is the Mayor, oppression/economics can't be the cause.
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You think the semi-connected would have gotten the hint from that lady in NJ who pulled a similar stunt in NJ recently and got canned for her efforts.
[Guardian] Australia’s oldest scientist, David Goodall, has ended his own life, surrounded by family at a clinic in Switzerland.
The British-born 104-year-old was forced to travel on a one-way ticket from his home in Western Australia to Switzerland where liberal assisted suicide laws allowed him to end his life legally, in contrast to his home where it remains forbidden.
In his final hours, Prof Goodall enjoyed his favourite dinner: fish and chips and cheesecake. And in his final minutes, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, best known for its last movement Ode to Joy, was played in line with his wishes.
He was accompanied to the Basel clinic of Swiss assisted-dying organisation Life Circle by Dr Philip Nitschke, the founder of the Australian right-to-die group Exit International.
Summer Vacation Adventures [Fox News] A man in India was been mauled to death by an injured bear after attempting to take a selfie with the animal.
Citing forest department officials, the Hindustan Times reports that the man was attacked by the bear in the eastern Indian state of Odisha last week.
Although warned not to approach the bear by his fellow SUV passengers, Prabhu Bhatara reportedly got too close to the bear, which chased and fatally mauled him. The victim, who was travelling back from a wedding, "died on the spot," a forest ranger told the Hindustan Times. "What spot?"
"THE spot"
A stray dog attacked the bear while it was mauling Bhatara, but was unable to save him
The attack took place on Wednesday evening. After tranquilizing the bear, officials were able to recover Bhatara’s body.
A number of selfie-related deaths have occurred in recent years, many of which were in India. The Hindustan Times reports that a youth in Odisha’s Angul district was killed when he tried to take a selfie with a wild elephant last year.
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The bear was just part of the view
When Prabhu met Babu Baloo,
Till the Hindoo, aghast,
Couldn't answer his caste
When the creature asked, "How do you do?"
Yogi and Boo-Boo and ballyhoo and helluva hullaballoo? Chips on the shop floor. I feel like a vandal.
[WSJ] American drinkers are abandoning beer for harder stuff, squeezing the world’s biggest brewers.
Anheuser-Busch InBev SA, Molson Coors Brewing Co. and Heineken NV all reported sharply lower U.S. beer volume in the first quarter compared with a year earlier as drinkers turn to other alcoholic beverages, such as wine or whiskey.
AB InBev BUD -0.32%▲ said its volumes fell 4.1% in North America, partly because of weakness in the company’s core Bud and Bud Light brands. Last month, Heineken said its volumes fell by a high-single-digit percentage in a declining U.S. beer market, without being specific. And last week, Molson Coors said its U.S. sales fell 5.8%, driven by a 3.8% drop in domestic brand volumes. That sent its share price tumbling 15% in a single day, to a four-year low.
Executives blamed a much colder start to the year compared with 2017, when warmer weather drove brisk sales. Despite the volume drop, AB InBev said it raised prices and boosted revenue per hectoliter. Strong volumes in markets such as Mexico, Colombia and Argentina helped, too. Shares rose early Wednesday in Belgium, before ending the day flat.
Still, the industrywide volume declines were sharper than expected, punctuating years of slowing growth amid broader headwinds.
Alcohol consumption overall is stalling. That has intensified a fight between brewers, distillers and winemakers for a more limited pool of drinkers. In that booze battle, beer has been losing out, especially among younger drinkers.
"Growth in wine and spirits has continued," Gavin Hattersley, chief executive of MillerCoors, the U.S. unit of Molson Coors, told analysts after reporting its own falling sales last week. Millennial drinkers are "shifting from beer to wine and spirits," he said.
At the same time, consumers more broadly have been turning away from bigger brands‐in categories such as frozen food and deodorant‐toward smaller ones they see as healthier, more natural or made locally. Craft breweries have capitalized on that trend in recent years, and many bigger breweries have snapped them up or marketed their own small brews. But even craft-beer sales have started to slow recently, and the sector’s smaller volumes haven’t been able to make up for declines in the mass-market brands.
[All Africa] The appointment of new Director General of the Directorate on Intelligence and Security, Peter Magosi to replace the deposed Isaac Kgosi has sparked widespread mixed reactions from the general public.
Many have been showering incoming President Mokgweetsi Masisi with praise for the bold decision to fire the 'most feared man' in the land after the DIS gained a reputation for notoriety, following a spate of extra judicial killings, unlawful arrests and unexplained disappearance of suspects compounded by unaccountability and flagrant abuse of state resources.
The DIS had become a law unto itself, confirmed when Kgosi boldly declared before a Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that as the spy chief he is the accounting officer and does not report to anyone on issues of operations, let alone the President.
That declaration was the deal breaker, the last straw that broke the camel's back so to speak in figurative speech. Now reduced to an ordinary citizen, many believe that the purge on Kgosi has opened floodgates, exposing him to investigations and litigation particularly from the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC).
Many have argued that there was wanton abuse of power by the DIS under Kgosi's watch, leading to frequent accusations of infringing on the rights and freedoms of citizens, amounting to criminal conduct. To cap it all, the spy chief and his agents have been living like rock stars, which raised eyebrows about such acquisitions bordering on living beyond their means. And for that they want Kgosi investigated and prosecuted.
Responding to fears that the much publicised dismissal of Kgosi could be a smokescreen to cover redeployment to a plum post, Government has been quick to clear the air by announcing that he has not been given a diplomatic post. The public awaits, with bated breath to see if that will come to pass as there is growing speculation that a gentleman's agreement may have been entered into between the parties.
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[All Africa] Social media is abuzz after Zimbabwe's biggest brewer Delta Corporation said it is running out of ingredients for the manufacture of soft drinks and alcoholic beverages, raising fears that the supply of beer could run out.
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[Al Jazeera] The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that it was taking steps to help deal with a new outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... 's rural northwest, after two cases of the deadly virus were confirmed in the market town of Bikoro.
Congo's Health Ministry said two of the five samples it sent to the National Institute of Biological Research in Kinshasa, came back positive for the disease.
The samples were gathered after health officials in Equateur Province notified Kinshasa on May 3 of about 21 cases of a hemorrhagic fever in the Ikoko Impenge area, including 17 deaths, according to WHO and Congo's government.
What is Ebola? Rare but deadly, the viral disease is most commonly affecting primates and humans. Initial symptoms can include fever, headache, joint and muscle aches, weakness, diarrhoea, vomiting, stomach pain lack of appetite and in some cases internal and external bleeding, according to WHO.
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[News Asia] WASHINGTON: Argentina Economy Minister Nicolas Dujovne is due to meet on Thursday with IMF chief Christine Lagarde to request a financing package to help shore up the struggling economy, officials said on Wednesday (May 9).
Dujovne will also meet with a senior US Treasury official in a key step in the talks with the IMF, which are likely to last six weeks, his spokesman said in a statement.
The talks come 17 years after the country defaulted on its debt and 12 years after it cut ties with the IMF, amid a bout of market turbulence rocking Latin America's third-largest economy.
Argentine President Mauricio Macri announced on Tuesday that he was going to the IMF for help as a "preventative" measure after the nation's currency plummeted amid high inflation and rising US interest rates.
Officials have declined to say how big a line of credit Argentina is seeking.
[PRESSTV] Armenia’s newly elected Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has signaled continuity in policy on the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, expressing his readiness for more talks with Azerbaijan but seeks the participation of separatists in the process.
Azerbaijan and Armenia are technically at war over Nagorno-Karabakh, an Azerbaijani territory that was seized by Armenian separatists in a bloody war in the 1990s.
Some 30,000 people were killed in the conflict, which ended with a fragile truce in 1994. The two sides have yet to reach a permanent peace agreement on the issue as festivities have continued over the years, claiming more lives from both sides.
Azerbaijan has repeatedly warned that it would take back Karabakh by force, but Armenia, which supports the rebels, says it would crush any military intervention by Baku.
"We are ready to continue peaceful talks," Pashinyan said at a presser in Karabakh’s capital, Stepanakert, on Wednesday after meeting its leader Bako Sahakyan.
The new premier underlined the significance of Karabakh for Yerevan by travelling to the region just hours after being elected prime minister by Armenia's parliament on Tuesday.
Pashinyan was chosen as the country’s new prime minister after weeks of mass protests, spearheaded by him, against corruption and cronyism in the ex-Soviet republic.
"I’m ready to hold talks with Azerbaijan’s president on behalf of Armenia, but the leadership of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) should hold talks on behalf of Artsakh," he said.
Pashinyan stressed that "mutual concessions would be possible only after recognition of the right of the Nagorno-Karabakh people to self-determination."
Azerbaijan has yet to comment, but the country had opposed a similar call by Armenia’s ex-president Serzh Sarksyan to include the separatists in the negotiations.
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[AnNahar] Three Korean-Americans held by nuclear-armed North Korea were released Wednesday during a visit by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Despite years of hostility between Washington and Pyongyang, hundreds of Americans visited North Korea every year until the US State Department finally issued a travel ban on the country last September.
Americans made the journey to North Korea for a range of reasons, from holidays and business trips to humanitarian work and missionary purposes.
Seoul is also pushing for the release of six South Koreans held by Pyongyang including three defectors originally from North Korea, and three Christian missionaries -- the first of whom was detained in 2013.
These are the US citizens who are now free:
Kim Hak-song had been working for the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) undertaking agricultural development work with the school's farm.
He was tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... at Pyongyang railway station in May 2017 on suspicion of committing "hostile acts" against the government, as he was boarding a train headed for his home in Dandong, China.
Kim, who is in his mid 50s, was born in Jilin, China, and educated at a university in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, CNN reported, citing a man who had studied with him. He said Kim returned to China after about 10 years of living in the US.
PUST was founded by evangelical overseas Christians and opened in 2010. It is known to have a number of American faculty members and students are generally children from the North's elite.
Kim Sang-duk, or Tony Kim, was arrested in April 2017 at the capital's main airport as he tried to leave the country after teaching for several weeks, also at PUST.
Kim is a former professor at Yanbian University of Science and Technology in China, close to the Korean border. Its website lists his speciality as accounting.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency has reported Kim is in his late 50s and said he had been involved in relief activities for children in rural parts of North Korea. It cited a source who described him as a "religiously devoted man".
In a Facebook post, Kim's son said since his arrest his family has had no contact with him. His family said Kim will soon become a grandfather.
Kim Dong-chul, a South Korea-born American businessman and pastor who is in his 60s, was sentenced to 10 years' hard labour in April 2016 after being charged with subversion and espionage.
He was arrested in October 2015 after he reportedly received a USB stick containing nuclear-linked data and other military information from a former North Korean soldier.
In a interview with CNN in January 2016, Kim said he was a naturalised American who had lived in Fairfax, Virginia. He said he once ran a trading and hotel services company in Rason, a special economic zone near the North's border with China and Russia.
A month before his trial, Kim had also appeared at a government-arranged news conference and apologised for attempting to steal military secrets in collusion with South Korea. The South Korean spy agency has denied involvement.
Update at 7:45 a.m EDT: The Daily Mail has the usual photos and video of President Trump, Vice President Pence, and their wives welcoming the former prisoners home.
[DAWN] BEIJING: A former Chinese Communist Party official who was once tipped as a potential successor to President Xi Jinping was sentenced to life in prison for bribery on Tuesday, the latest senior cadre to fall in Xi’s sweeping anti-corruption crusade.
Sun Zhengcai, a former Politburo member and party chief of the southwestern mega-city of Chongqing, was found guilty of taking more than 170 million yuan ($26.7 million) in bribes, the First Intermediate People’s Court of Tianjin said in a statement on its website.
Sun, 54, had once been tipped for promotion to the Politburo’s elite seven-member standing committee, which rules the country and is presided over by Xi.
As the youngest Politburo member, Sun was even seen in some quarters as a potential successor to Xi.
The court said the defendant had been given a "lenient" sentence in light of his willingness to cooperate with the investigation.
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[Detroit Free Press] Ford Motor is facing a complete production shutdown of its profit-driving F-150 pickups for an unknown period of time.
"It is a very fluid situation," company spokeswoman Kelli Felker said Tuesday.
A major fire at Meridian Magnesium Products in Eaton Rapids, Mich., on May 2 created an unavoidable disruption. Ford has been working with the die-cast parts manufacturer since the incident.
[PRESSTV] A court in the German capital, Berlin, has upheld a law preventing a Moslem teacher from wearing a headscarf to work, rejecting her discrimination complaint.
The Berlin labor court ruled Wednesday that the city-state’s so-called neutrality law prohibiting all religious clothing for public school teachers, coppers and judicial employees doesn’t violate the teacher’s constitutional right to religious freedom, according to Germany’s DPA news agency.
The ruling could still be appealed.
Justice Arne Boyer noted that the teacher had agreed to follow the neutrality law when she was employed.
Such bans are decided on a state level in Germany.
In 2015, the Federal Constitutional Court on appeal struck down a law in North Rhine-Westphalia that prohibit headscarves, but exempted "Christian and Western educational and cultural values or traditions" from its ban.
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Catholic nuns hit hardest. [do I need to put a /s on that?]
[PRESSTV] Spain's government on Wednesday stepped in to block Carles Puigdemont from being re-appointed president of Catalonia, pressuring the separatist camp to pick another candidate and form a regional government after months of limbo.
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[Althouse] Detailed claims about the company’s banking history were made public Tuesday by Michael Avenatti, an attorney for Stormy Daniels, the adult-film star who was paid $130,000 by Cohen’s company shortly before the 2016 election to keep quiet about her alleged affair with Trump.
Inspector General Eric Thorson, who operates independently of the agency’s political leadership, launched the probe in response to media reports, said counsel Rich Delmar. It might ‐ or might not ‐ answer a question that was the source of much speculation Wednesday: How did Avenatti come into hard-to-get information touching on some of the most sensitive issues before the White House, including the probe led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III?
"Not only that, but Michael Avenatti has come under fire for shady business dealings relating to a failing coffee chain his company purchased. After his investment firm bought Tully’s Coffee for $9.15 million, he has been named in over 50 state and federal complaints for a number of violations, including breach of lease actions and warrants for unpaid taxes."
[Al Jazeera] Pakistain's parliament has passed a law guaranteeing basic rights for transgender citizens and outlawing discrimination by both employers and private business owners, a move hailed by activists as "historic" for the conservative South Asian country.
Members of parliament voted to pass the wide-ranging Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act in the capital, Islamabad, on Tuesday.
The law accords citizens the right to self-identify as male, female or a blend of both genders, and to have that identity registered on all official documents, including National Identification Cards, passports, driver's licenses and education certificates.
The law guarantees citizens the right to express their gender as they wish, and to a gender identity that is defined as "a person's innermost and individual sense of self as male, female or a blend of both, or neither; that can correspond or not to the sex assigned at birth".
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They also have laws allowing Christians. How's that worked out?
[DAWN] MALE: A court in the Maldives on Tuesday sentenced the country’s chief justice to nearly five months in prison on charges of obstructing government administration and justice.
The criminal court sentenced Abdulla Saeed to four months and 24 days for allegedly preventing the Supreme Court from receiving letters from the government.
Saeed was incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in February during a political crisis that followed a Supreme Court order for the release and retrial of some of President Yameen Abdul Gayoom’s tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... political opponents because of alleged violations of due process during their earlier trials.
Saeed also faces separate charges of terrorism which carry a longer maximum term.
Maldives authorities arrested Saeed and another justice who was on the bench which ordered the release of the political prisoners, including Mohammed Nasheed, the country’s first president elected in a free election in 2008.
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Obama's favorite islands off the coast of Argentina...
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[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... ministers have not yet tendered their resignations despite publicly announcing last week that the party was parting ways with the coalition government in the province.
Official sources said that three ministers of JI in the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... -led coalition government continued to hold their offices and did not formally resign. They said that the government would de-notify them as ministers after resignations.
"They (ministers) have publicly announced leaving the coalition government, but did not tender their resignations," said one bigwig, adding that technically they were still holding their berths in the cabinet.
He said that the Jamaat ministers had yet to surrender permissible facilities, including vehicles to the government. The JI had announced leaving coalition government in the presence of Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Thursday last.
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[DAWN] Pak-origin Italian citizen Sana Cheema ─ whose death in Gujrat, was reported by Italian media as an alleged honour killing ─ was found to have been strangled to death, according to an autopsy report obtained by Dawn on Wednesday. We guessed that.
The autopsy was conducted by Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Teaching Hospital's Dr Komal Ishaq after the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Forensic Science Agency sent Sana's forensic report to the hospital. The forensic report stated that the victim's voice box was swollen and the right cornua of her hyoid bone (in the neck) had been dislocated.
The forensic report had also suggested regurgitation after three pieces of green chilli were found in her sound box. PFSA did not find any signs of poison or drugs in Sana's body.
"It has now been confirmed that she was strangled to death. And according to the report, her neck was also broken," Irfan Sulehri, a police brass hat in Gujrat told AFP. A second police officer from Gujrat, Waqar Gujjar, confirmed the findings of the forensic report.
The victim's father Ghulam Mustafa Cheema and her brother Adnan Cheema are in police custody and Section 311 of the Pakistain Penal Code (punishment after waiver or compounding of right of qisas in qatl-e-amd) is being added to the case that has already been registered under Section 302 of PPC against them, Gujrat District Police Officer Jahanzeb Nazeer Khan told Dawn.
Sana's uncle, who had originally been nominated in the case along with Mustafa and Adnan, has been exonerated of all charges.
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[Zero Hedge] - Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti has some explaining to do...
After appearing on CNN 59 times to claim the moral high ground over President Trump's alleged decade-old affair with Daniels, skeletons in Avenatti's closet are now beginning to pour out. Because of leaks from the Trump camp?
Questions have emerged over who's funding Avenatti, how he was privy to Trump attorney Michael Cohen's bank records - and how exactly did he obtain banking transactions for two men also named Michael Cohen, who he wrongly accused in a seven-page "dossier" released this week.
Other questions have come to light over a bankrupt coffee chain Avenatti left in smoldering ashes with $5 million in unpaid taxes to the IRS, an alleged $160,000 owed for unpaid coffee, and over 45 lawsuits filed in connection with the failed venture. Before I looked at the article, which has a copy of the summary IRS bill, I wrote this - "I'm 90% sure it's for unpaid payroll taxes, with penalties & interest added on.". Lo and behold! Judging from the dates of assessment, the tax returns weren't filed for well over a year, which is tactically stupid due to the nearly unwaivable late filing penalty. Late filing penalties do not hurt you unless you do not pay the taxes due, because the late filing penalty is based on any resulting tax liability, thus compounding the problem. Also - what about the most recent quarters (Q4 2016 and all of 2017)? Were they all filed & paid on time? I have huge doubts about that...
[CATO] A study published last year by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania State University found that state Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs), a popular method used to drive down the opioid prescription rate, do not drive down opioid overdose death rates, but might have the unintended consequence of adding to them, by driving users to the underground market where dangerous drugs like fentanyl and heroin await them. Another study last October by a Purdue University researcher found that while PDMPs drove down the prescription rate of oxycodone, they significantly drove up the rate of heroin use.
Yesterday the Annals of Internal Medicine published a systematic research review by Columbia University epidemiologist David Fink and others that drew the same conclusion. The authors stated, “Evidence that PDMP implementation either increases or decreases nonfatal or fatal overdoses is largely insufficient, as is evidence regarding positive associations between specific administrative features and successful programs.” They added, “implementation of PDMPs may have unintended negative outcomes—namely, increased rates of heroin-related overdose.”
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“Evidence that PDMP implementation either increases or decreases nonfatal or fatal overdoses is largely insufficient, as is evidence regarding positive associations between specific administrative features and successful programs.”
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They should treat OD as a suicide. I know it's horrible but until we either truly decide to have a war on drugs or legalize them, this nonsense will continue...and OD's after legalization should also be considered suicide.
As for a real war on drugs, the vast majority of it would take place in other countries...smugglers executed. Drug fields sprayed with persistant nerve agents or napalmed. Cartels treated like terrorists and JSOC given open season on them.
h/t Instapundit
[CampusReform] A State University of New York at Oswego administrator has reprimanded a conservative student for delivering an "uncomfortable" speech during an "Open Mic" event last month.
According to an email obtained by Campus Reform, the school’s Alcohol and Other Drug Program Coordinator, Trisha DeWolf, contacted student Nicole Miller on May 2, stressing that some Open Mic attendees were disturbed by her presentation criticizing liberal intolerance on campus.
"It was brought to my attention that students were uncomfortable with the letter that Nicole read during open mic last week," the official wrote in the email. "While I am in support of your freedom of speech, I was implored to reach out you both by more than one student."
"Anytime I receive a complaint I have to follow up," she continued. "The unwritten policy has always been after one complaint, you receive a verbal warning and any complaint after than may result in being asked to not perform at open mic. I’ve already had to utilize this unwritten rule once this semester." Is it just me, or little Trisha could benefit by doing a stunt of being Eric Schneiderman's girlfriend?
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The sad thing is they were unhappy about their previous vile attacks being read aloud. As far as I know the campus did nothing about the actual vile attacks, just about them being read aloud.
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.
[Daily Caller] WASHINGTON, D.C. ‐ Lawyers for Russian company Concord Management and Consulting, LLC, formally entered a "not guilty" plea in federal court Monday in a case Special Counsel Robert Mueller probably never thought would happen.
[Guardian] Australia’s oldest scientist, David Goodall, has ended his own life, surrounded by family at a clinic in Switzerland.
[Fox News] A man in India was been mauled to death by an injured bear after attempting to take a selfie with the animal.
[WSJ] American drinkers are abandoning beer for harder stuff, squeezing the world’s biggest brewers.
[All Africa] Social media is abuzz after Zimbabwe's biggest brewer Delta Corporation said it is running out of ingredients for the manufacture of soft drinks and alcoholic beverages, raising fears that the supply of beer could run out.
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
[News Asia] WASHINGTON: Argentina Economy Minister Nicolas Dujovne is due to meet on Thursday with IMF chief Christine Lagarde to request a financing package to help shore up the struggling economy, officials said on Wednesday (May 9).
[PRESSTV] Armenia’s newly elected Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has signaled continuity in policy on the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, expressing his readiness for more talks with Azerbaijan but seeks the participation of separatists in the process.
North Korea
[DAWN] Pak-origin Italian citizen Sana Cheema ─ whose death in Gujrat, was reported by Italian media as an alleged honour killing ─ was found to have been strangled to death, according to an autopsy report obtained by Dawn on Wednesday.
[CATO] A study published last year by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania State University found that state Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs), a popular method used to drive down the opioid prescription rate, do not drive down opioid overdose death rates, but might have the unintended consequence of adding to them, by driving users to the underground market where dangerous drugs like fentanyl and heroin await them. Another study last October by a Purdue University researcher found that while PDMPs drove down the prescription rate of oxycodone, they significantly drove up the rate of heroin use.
