[SAT] South African taxpayers have footed the bill of almost R10 million for President Jacob Zuma’s legal fees and exorbitant legal counsel, the Democratic Alliance said on Saturday.
“Our research reveals that since 2009 President Zuma has spent an inordinate amount of taxpayers’ money on keeping himself from facing justice. This is despite there being no basic services for the millions of South Africans who so deserve them, DA federal executive chairman James Selfe told reporters at a press conference in Port Elizabeth.
Specifically, since November 2013, this included advocate’s fees of R4,795,000; attorney’s fees of R400,000; correspondence fees, etc of R300,000; administration fees of R4000; and cost orders of R1,200,000, among others.
“This is the hallmark of frivolous expenditure for one man. This is set to rise since the president and his cronies at the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) take this matter to the Constitutional Court. This is indicative of how much the ANC state has become preoccupied with protecting President Zuma and that alone,” Selfe said.
[AnNahar] Europe's toughened borders are prompting migrants colonists to switch focus to the United States, but their trek is being thwarted in Central America, where a bottleneck has formed, according to the International Organization for Migration.
In Costa Rica, a makeshift camp has sprung up housing hundreds of Africans and Haitians. Elsewhere in the country smaller numbers of Afghans and Paks are biding their time to head north. They are being stalled by Nicaragua, which strictly closed its border eight months ago to migrants colonists without visas, mainly to stop the flow of thousands of U.S.-bound Cubans through its territory. But that closed-door policy has also trapped what are called "extra-continental" migrants colonists -- those coming from outside Latin America.
There are an estimated 2,000 such migrants colonists in Costa Rica. Their number has increased since March, since the EU did a deal with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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Venezuela's economic crisis has sent a huge but largely ignored wave of people into Colombia, and many more could be on the way, Martin Gottwald, the United Nations Refugee Agency's representative in Colombia, said.
No exact figures are available, but the number of Venezuelans fleeing to Colombia is already "quite large," and Colombia should prepare itself for more, Gottwald told AFP in an interview. "The avalanche is probably going to increase, with or without the reopening of the border."
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro closed the countries' border in August 2015 after an attack on an army patrol. He blamed right-wing paramilitaries from Colombia. Venezuelans are sneaking across the border even when it is closed, driven abroad by the economic crisis, violent crime and a health care system teetering on the brink of collapse.
The leftist leader briefly reopened it last weekend to allow Venezuelans to stock up on food, medicine and other basic supplies amid severe shortages in Venezuela.
Gottwald said a sizeable number of Venezuelans who entered Colombia probably never returned. He urged the Colombian government to start putting contingency plans in place for the "worst-case scenario."
Non-WOT until they have to release the "Allahu Akhbar" chant evidence from someone's cell video
A 21-year-old Syrian refugee is accused of using a machete to kill a woman and injure two other people in Germany on Sunday, Reuters reported, citing police.
The man was arrested after the attack, which occurred in the southwestern city of Reutlingen, according to German media.
The alleged assailant, whose name has not yet been disclosed, was known to police from a previous incident in which people were injured, a police spokesperson said.
Investigators believe the man acted alone.
"There is no danger to anyone else at this time," he told Reuters.
Authorities had yet to disclose a motive for the incident, BILD and the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspapers reported.
The attack comes as Germany is on edge, following a rampage at a Munich mall on Friday night in which nine people were killed, and an ax attack on a train a week ago that left five wounded.
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Not terrorism. They just like to do that stuff. This is an additional and worrying angle. Anybody who just takes a notion to stab a few women for their dress, who decides on the spur of the moment to bash a couple of gays with a brick, has no trail, no connections, no...... Did I just say "no connections"? More coffee.
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Deutsche Welle has an update. Our possible "Syrian" (because who really knows?) quarreled with a woman, then hauled out a machete and killed her, slashed two others, and ran off. A man driving by stopped him by ramming him with his car, then waited for the authorities to arrest him.
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Tom Kratman wrote a book a few years ago, _Caliphate_, about life in Europe after the Muslim conquest and the American reconquista effort. I couldn't read it much beyond the first chapter because it was too intense, but at the time I wondered how the conquest could have happened. Now I know. And the Kindle version appears to be free today. link
[Daily Caller] The release of Democratic National Committee emails by WikiLeaks Friday reveals that DNC officials planned anti-Donald Trump protests.
In multiple emails, DNC officials signed off and acknowledged the existence of two anti-Donald Trump protests in South Bend, IN and Billings, MT. The release of nearly 20,000 emails is the first in a WikiLeaks "Hillary Leaks" series.
On April 29, a DNC press staffer, Rachel Palermo, alerted Eric Walker, deputy communications director, about a Facebook page for an anti-Trump protest on May 2 in South Bend. "Whoo! Thanks to our interns for finding this out." Walker replies, "I like it, as long as the students feel safe getting involved. I imagine this demo will be nicer than the one in San Fran today."
That day in San Francisco protesters blocked off roads to an event Donald Trump was hosting. The Republican nominee ended up having to jump down from the highway and sneak around back to enter.
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Considering all the signs are premade and shipped to "protests", verified reports of paid "professional" protesters and busing of said such protesters to sites around the country, the DNC is only one of the organizers of these things.
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So, for the sake of argument and tin foil hat wearers everywhere, if campaign financing money was used to fund "professional" posters or the per diem and travel of....crowd agitators, bail bonds, things could get interesting.
(CNN) The head of the Democratic National Committee will not speak at the party's convention next week, a decision reached by party officials Saturday after emails surfaced that raised questions about the committee's impartiality during the Democratic primary. Good looks will only take you so far.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose stewardship of the DNC has been under fire through most of the presidential primary process, will not have a major speaking role in an effort "to keep the peace" in the party, a Democrat familiar with the decision said. The revelation comes following the release of nearly 20,000 emails.
One email appears to show DNC staffers asking how they can reference Bernie Sanders' faith to weaken him in the eyes of Southern voters. Another seems to depict an attorney advising the committee on how to defend Hillary Clinton against an accusation by the Sanders campaign of not living up to a joint fundraising agreement.
Wasserman Schultz is expected to gavel the convention in and out, but not speak in the wake of the controversy surrounding the leaked emails, a top Democrat said.
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dws isn't the biggest threat 'to keep the peace'
the biggest threat is that the Dem's will not be able to contain their anti American feelings
every 4 years they but (or maybe rent) thousands of flags and do everything possible to use approved phrases and every 4 years it gets harder to shut down the party base - in 2012, the party based basically booed God and booed Israel but it was a short incident and the cameras were focused on the stage-- there will be more cameras this time and more issues
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I think I'm actually going to enjoy watching it...as long as I have enough alcohol on hand.
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I recommend Willett, cask strength
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Let us forget the lying and treachery for now. To determine your penance, please try to concentrate on the number of really, really stupid things you have said since your last confession.
[NYP] President Obama’s Kenyan half-brother wants to make America great again -- so he’s voting for Donald Trump.
"I like Donald Trump because he speaks from the heart," Malik Obama told The Post from his home in the rural village of Kogelo. "Make America Great Again is a great slogan. I would like to meet him." I suspect Paul Manafort is attempting to make that happen as we speak.
Obama, 58, a longtime Democrat, said his "deep disappointment" in his brother Barack’s administration has led him to recently switch allegiance to "the party of Lincoln."
The last straw, he said, came earlier this month when FBI Director James Comey recommended not prosecuting Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton over her use of a private e-mail servers while secretary of state.
"She should have known better as the custodian of classified information," said Obama.
He’s also annoyed that Clinton and President Obama killed Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy, whom he called one of his best friends.
Malik Obama dedicated his 2012 biography of his late father to Khadafy and others who were "making this world a better place." "Um, Mr. Manafort, hold the phone a sec, okay?"
"I still feel that getting rid of Khadafy didn’t make things any better in Libya," he said. "My brother and the secretary of state disappointed me in that regard."
But what bothers him even more is the Democratic Party’s support of same-sex marriage.
[DAWN] SHANGLA: A man, aided by his brother, killed his five months pregnant wife here for 'honour', accusing her of infidelity, local police said on Saturday.
Minat Sajida, a resident of Dandai area of Besham tehsil of Shangla district, was rubbed out after her husband accused her of having extra-marital relations, the dear departed woman's brother told local police.
Afzal Khan, Station House Officer (SHO) of Dandai cop shoppe, said the victim's brother claimed his sister had been married to Bajreen for 14 years and they had four children. But Bajreen believed he was not the father of the child she was expecting, he added.
The police officer confirmed that the woman was five months pregnant and was killed using a pistol. Both Bajreen and his brother are missing since the murder.
Leaving the other four children as bereft as true orphans -- a very risky career choice in a Third World country that lacks even Dickensonian orphanages. Good job, Dad!
"In the last eight months, three honour killing incidents occurred within the precincts of Dandai cop shoppe and most of the culprits were nabbed Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! and sent to prison," the police official told Dawn.com.
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[IMAGES.DAWN] Social media sensation Qandeel Baloch, who was murdered by her brother last week, has been deleted off Facebook. Her official page that hosted her photos and videos is no longer available, and her account on Instagram - also owned by Facebook - has been deleted.
As per Facebook policy, any personal account that belongs to a deceased individual is automatically made into a memorialized account where friends and family can share memories on the timeline.
However, "pages with a sole admin whose account was memorialized will be removed from Facebook if we receive a valid request," states Facebook's help centre.
The reason for her accounts' deletion is unknown.
Obviously because Facebook received a "valid request"...
One plausible explanation could be that since Qandeel was the sole admin and many may have reported her accounts after her death, they were removed.
Another explanation could be that Facebook received a request for deletion of her accounts from the government; the company has, on multiple occasions rolled over removed or blocked content on requests by the state.
Like I was just saying...
That's the end of her videos and photos, folks.
Qandeel Baloch's claim to fame were her risque Facebook and Instagram uploads which many found objectionable. The 26-year-old, popular was strangled to death by her brother at her Multan residence. He was arrested by police in Dera Ghazi Khan and confessed to killing his sister in the name of 'honour'.
All that remains of her online persona is her Twitter handle.
Perhaps the Wayback Machine captured her work?
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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.
[AnNahar] Europe's toughened borders are prompting 
Could additional information be forthcoming on other protests involving the DNC ? 
[NYP] President Obama’s Kenyan half-brother wants to make America great again -- so he’s voting for Donald Trump.
