[Guardian] Jalil Muntaqim, a former Black Panther who has been in prison for 47 years, has been told he must spend at least another 15 months behind bars having been denied release for the ninth time by a New York state parole board.
The three-member parole panel voted this week by two-to-one to keep Muntaqim, aka Anthony Bottom, incarcerated in the maximum security Sullivan correctional facility in upstate New York. His release had been vociferously opposed by the New York city police unions and by the widow of one of the two police officers he was convicted of murdering in 1971.
Muntaqim’s ninth denial since he became eligible for parole in 1998 was in stark contrast to the release in April of his fellow Black Liberation Army member and accomplice, Herman Bell. At his parole hearing, Bell had expressed revulsion for the 1971 killings, saying: "There was nothing political about the act, as much as I thought at the time. It was murder and horribly wrong."
The Guardian in July profiled Muntaqim’s battle to get out of prison almost half a century after he was arrested for the murders of the two police officers, Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones, in a shooting in Harlem. The officers had been drawn to the spot for what they thought was a domestic dispute but were then ambushed.
[Red State] Some people are nuts. And some nuts prove that they’re nuts, while thinking they’re in actuality changing the world. That’s how we know they’re nuts: They’re completely clueless to the fact that what they’re doing comes across as insane. It’s like that (paraphrased) line from Casa Mi Padre:
"If you were smart, you’d know how stupid you are."
As you may remember, on the 4th of July, a huge nut climbed the Statue of Liberty. In her mind, she was really doing something cool: She was teaching the world that President Trump shouldn’t keep "children in cages." This was, ideologically, vastly ignorant. The country had first responded with horror to photos of kids in cages which were actually staged (here and here). Furthermore, the practice of family separation was the edict of interpreted law, per the left-wing 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (here).
But don’t confuse her with the facts. And don’t confuse her with the acquitted ‐ 44-year-old Therese Okoumou was convicted Monday in a New York courtroom.
She was brought up on misdemeanor charges, but she faces up to 18 months in prison.
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a 44-year-old immigrant from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
According to court records, she’s a Congolese immigrant who once filed a complaint with the New York City Commission on Human Rights, seeking a judicial review and reversal of a “determination” it made regarding alleged incidents of abuse that Okoumou suffered at the hands of a social services agency on Staten Island where she worked.
see also
How cops rescued protester who climbed Statue of Liberty
How cops rescued protester who climbed Statue of Liberty
Specifically, Okoumou claimed that in 2005, she was treated “in a demeaning manner” by her bosses and told that she would be fired “for complaining of discrimination.” It’s unclear why her complaint was tossed out.
In 2011, Okoumou made headlines after she was hit with an astounding 60 violations for illegally posting ads for her services as a personal trainer.
The Department of Sanitation slapped her with $4,500 in fines that year after she spent five hours one Sunday posting the fliers on Manhattan utility poles.
In 2017, she was arrested and charged with obstructing governmental administration, unlawful assembly and trespassing during a demonstration at the Department of Labor building on Varick Street. She had allegedly covered her mouth with tape and refused to respond to police demands.
On Wednesday, Okoumou told investigators she was part of a group protest organized by Rise and Resist NYC. The activists unfurled a banner on Liberty Island less than an hour before her climb that read: “ABOLISH ICE.”
Organizers initially tried to distance themselves from Okoumou’s Statue of Liberty stunt — saying she had “no connection” with their cause — but later admitted that she was part of the group.
Members described her on social media as a “total bad ass.”
“She’s very dedicated to the resistance generally, but specifically to the issues surrounding immigration and the treatment immigrants have been receiving from ICE and Customs and Border Control,” explained Jay Walker, a Rise and Resist activist. “She’s been an active member for about four or five months.”
Ship her ass back
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Waitaminit! If you abolish ice won't that make all drinks warm and contribute to global worming? Asking for a friend.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Gustavo Garcia, 36, of Visalia, California, was pronounced dead on State Route 65 in Porterville on Monday morning
Garcia was flung from a stolen truck after a gun battle with police and wrong-way crashes that left four people injured
Authorities say Garcia went on a crime spree that included attacks against random strangers
He shot and killed a man at a gas station convenience store and shot and wounded a farmworker in an orchard and a woman at a motel
The fatality at the gas station has been identified as Rocky Paul Jones, 51, of Vasalia
Garcia also fired gunshots into the backyard of his ex-girlfriend's home, though she and her children were unharmed
He then stole a truck at gunpoint from three farmworkers and led police on a 100mph high speed chase
One driver was left in critical condition and the other three had minor injuries
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Shooting the Americans other Americans don't want to shoot...
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If you're dead in Porterville, isn't that redundant?
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I'd like to see his toxicology report from the autopsy. I'm betting meth induced psychosis or maybe bath salts.
[NYPOST] A Mississippi teen was placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! after officials incarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! him for the drive-by shooting death of a 66-year-old woman.
Lee County Sheriff Jim Johnson told news outlets 17-year-old Latavious Betts was charged as an adult with murder and aggravated assault in Annie Walton’s Dec. 7 death.
Johnson said Betts fired a dozen or more shots into a house near Verona, killing Walton and wounding four others.
Betts was earlier charged with first-degree murder for a March 22 shooting at a Verona car wash. He’s also charged with aggravated assault in a July 8 convenience store shooting that injured two.
The teen was placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! without bail because he’s accused of violating previous release terms. It’s unclear if he has a lawyer. Betts was captured Friday after a week on the run.
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The Publishing Industry™ is seeing people "going Indie" and bypassing them on the Internet. The Media™ is feeling the same existential pressure: Suppose you had something to says and no one cares to listen?
[Breitbart] The Department of Justice announced Tuesday the finalized form of the bump stock ban, achieved by amending ATF regulation so as to define bump stocks as "machineguns."
Breitbart News possesses a copy of the DOJ’s summary of the ban, which states:
The Department of Justice is amending the regulations of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to clarify that bump-stock-type devices-meaning "bump fire" stocks, slide-fire devices, and devices with certain similar characteristics-are "machineguns" as defined by the National Firearms Act of 1934 and the Gun Control Act of 1968 because such devices allow a shooter of a semiautomatic firearm to initiate a continuous firing cycle with a single pull of the trigger.
The summary says a bump stock allows the trigger of a semiautomatic firearm to reset between the firing of each round, but describes the bump stock-equipped "semiautomatic firearm" as "self-acting or self-regulating," and therefore a "machinegun."
The DOJ’s summary explains that there will be no grandfathering of pre-owned bump stocks. Rather, all bump stocks must be destroyed or handed over the ATF within 90 days of the ban’s effective date:
With limited exceptions, the Gun Control Act, as amended, makes it unlawful for any person to transfer or possess a machinegun unless it was lawfully possessed prior to the effective date of the statute. The bumpstock-type devices covered by this final rule were not in existence prior to the effective date of the statute, and therefore will be prohibited when this rule becomes effective. Consequently, under the final rule, current possessors of these devices will be required to destroy the devices or abandon them at an ATF office prior to the effective date of the rule.
The push for a bump stock ban begin in Congress following the October 1, 2017, Las Vegas attack. But public support for such a ban was scant and the Congressional push for a ban waned.
At President Trump’s behest the ATF began seeking public comment on a regulatory ban of bump stocks in December 2017. In February 2018 Trump made clear he had directed the DOJ to ban the firearm accessories.
The bump stock ban is expected to appear in the federal register this Friday, thereafter giving owners 90 days to destroy them or turn them in. The 90 days ends March 21, 2019.
On December 18, 2018, a senior DOJ official told Breitbart News there are no plans to compensate bump stock owners for the financial value of their legally purchased bump stock accessories. The official also said the DOJ expects a legal challenge against the bump stock ban and is prepared to fight any suit that is filed.
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If an object (a) causes you to use up your ammo very fast (b) decreases accuracy shouldn't we be giving them away with every gun purchase to stop school shooters and such?
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Seems to me that if they want to save lives they should encourage bump stocks rather than banning them - increase in firing rate should be more than offset by decrease in accuracy.
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When is a bump stock not a bump stock? When you take the guts out of it? Haven't read the law yet.
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I could not afford a bump stock. Blowing through ammo is not a good choice in auto for an individual. Fire discipline and well placed shots are more effective than spray and pray.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan police forces have rescued an Afghan-German woman who was kidnapped in Kabul around two years ago, the Ministry of Interior (MoI)said Tuesday.
According to a statement released by MoI, the woman was kidnapped by an individual identified as Najib who had met her in Germany.
No further details have been given regarding the identity of the woman who has been released from her captive but MoI added that Najib had lured the victim to Kabul after meeting her in Germany.
The statement further added that the woman was kept as a captive for around 2 years and her captor was continuously changing her accommodation in different parts of Kabul.
According to MoI, the police forces launched operations and rescued the woman from Bagrami district of Kabul province.
The woman has told police that she was subjected to torture and beating during her captivity in the hands of Najib, MoI said, adding that the perpetrator has also been tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... and is in police custody for further investigations.
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[PULSE.NG] Togo on Thursday votes in legislative elections that are being boycotted by the main opposition after a year of political upheaval which saw demonstrators demanding President Faure Gnassingbe step down.
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[PULSE.NG] An inquest into the fatal shooting of six people in post-election violence in Zimbabwe squarely blamed the military and police on Tuesday, saying the use of live fire was "unjustified and disproportionate".
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PM Teresa May's lack of leadership brings the UK to this.
[Gcaptain] The British government said on Tuesday it would implement plans for a no-deal Brexit in full and begin telling businesses and citizens to prepare for the risk of leaving the European Union without an agreement.
Those plans include setting aside space on ferries to ensure a regular flow of medical supplies and keeping 3,500 armed forces personnel ready to support the government with its contingency plans.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Janbaz Tarin, 21, who stabbed his former Syrian wife Raneem Oudeh and her mother Khaola Saleem, was sentenced to a minimum of 32 years in prison by a Birmingham court on Monday, according to a report by The Guardian.
Tarin stabbed Raneem and her mother Khaola, who had tried to defend and protect her daughter, to death in Solihull on August 27.
Tarin appears to be from Afghanistan, judging by his name and his Facebook account, which contains some posts in the Pashtun language.
During the trial, it was revealed that Raneem had left her husband Tarin after she learnt he was married to another woman with whom he had several children with in Afghanistan.
A video the night of the crime shows Tarin stalking Raneem and her mother and following them to a shisha lounge where they engaged in a verbal brawl that triggered the mother to slap him.
Raneem contacted the police but she and her mother left before the patrol arrived.
Tarin then followed them home and stabbed them both to death outside their home.
Police tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! him three days later. During his trial on Monday, Tarin pleaded guilty to the double murder.
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Janbaz Tarin, 21 & he was married to another woman with whom he had several children with in Afghanistan.
Another of those bearded and balding child refugees.
[PULSE.NG] Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... is in recession after it's economy shrank by 3.5 percent during the third trimester of 2018, the state statistics bureau said on Tuesday.
It was the second such shrinkage in a row after the economy shrank 4.0 percent in the second quarter, with respect to the same period a year ago.
Gross domestic product is down by 1.4 percent from January to September compared with 2017.
The hardest hit sectors were business (down 8.9 percent), fishing (-7.3 percent) and manufacturing (-6.6). But finance was up by 5.1 percent.
Argentina has been gripped by an economic crisis this year that forced President Mauricio Macri to agree a $56 billion bailout loan with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
It came as confidence in the peso crumbled, sending the currency into a freefall that saw it lose half its value against the dollar.
The IMF predicts that Argentina's economy will shrink by 2.6 percent this year and another 1.6 percent in 2019.
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agree a $56 billion bailout loan with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
So Argentina hasn't yet run out of Other Peoples' Money.
[PULSE.NG] Cuba will leave out of its new constitution changes that would have paved the way for legal same-sex marriage, despite majority support in local assemblies, a government official said Tuesday.
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[bbc] China is flexing its muscles. As the second richest economy in the world, its businessmen and politicians are involved just about everywhere in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Now, though, China is taking a big interest in a very different part of the world: the Arctic.
It has started calling itself a "near-Arctic" power, even though Beijing is almost 3,000km (1,800 miles) from the Arctic Circle. It has bought or commissioned several ice-breakers - including nuclear-powered ones - to carve out new routes for its goods through the Arctic ice.
And it is eyeing Greenland as a particularly useful way-station on its polar silk road.
Greenland is self-governing, though still nominally controlled by Denmark.
It is important strategically for the United States, which maintains a vast military base at Thule, in the far north. Both the Danes and the Americans are deeply worried that China should be showing such an interest in Greenland.
LEAST DENSELY POPULATED PLACE ON EARTH
You've got to go there to get an idea of how enormous Greenland is.
It's the 12th-largest territory in the world, 10 times bigger than the United Kingdom: two million square kilometres of rock and ice.
Yet its population is miniscule at 56,000 – roughly the size of a town in England.
As a result, Greenland is the least densely populated territory on Earth. About 88% of the people are Inuit; most of the rest are ethnically Danish, many of whose ancestors started colonising it 1,000 years ago. The Inuit arrived several centuries later.
Over the years neither the Americans nor the Danes have put all that much money into Greenland, and Nuuk, the capital, feels pretty poor.
Every day, small numbers of people gather in the centre to sell things that will generate a bit of cash: cast-off clothes, children's schoolbooks, cakes they've made, dried fish, reindeer-horn carvings. Some people also sell the bloody carcases of the big King Eider ducks, which Inuits are allowed to hunt but aren't supposed to sell for profit.
CHINA'S AIR POWER
At present you can only fly to Nuuk in small propeller-driven planes. In four years, though, that will change spectacularly.
The Greenlandic government has decided to build three big international airports capable of taking large passenger jets.
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Alternative Hypothesis: The Chinese Mainland is littered with empty commercial properties because of government corruption. The construction moguls are starting to run out of Chinese $Money$ and need to expand overseas or go bankrupt...
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NUUK AIRPORT has a 3117 foot long airport built into the granite. You have to have STOL aircraft like DeHavilland Dash-8 and Dash-7s to transport people in any quantity. If I remember right, the airport is closed on Sundays. Nuuk is a neat place, with Inuit and European flavors.
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More like a dumping place for bad party leaders and generals they don't want to just shoot. They could probably lease facilities in Siberia, but still too close to home.
[RealClearDefense] Melania Trump made history Wednesday by flying in a V-22 Osprey aircraft and onto the deck of an aircraft carrier.
The White House says it’s the first time a first lady has flown in an Osprey. The tiltrotor aircraft takes off and lands vertically. Mrs. Trump flew from Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington to Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton, Virginia, and onto the deck of the USS George H.W. Bush and back.
She later tweeted about her "incredible flight" and visit with service members.
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V-22 Osprey carrier landing? She's much more brave than I.
What's brave about that? Try trapping aboard a carrier in C-2 Greyhound. Now, that's freaky deaky. Or flying off the carrier in a Chinook. Chinook pilots BTW are all (EVERYONE OF THEM) certifiably insane.
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Re: HS: Trapped and catted in a greyhound, and that was right after the crash of one due to unsecured load and massive CG shift ( video on you tube; still painful to watch, mercifully, it stops short of the splash, but not until the stall/descent is well establsihed).
and multiple lauches in variety of rotary winged aircraft, some inot peas soup fog so thick that @ 60 feet, the flight deck ceased to exist....flying by Braille.
What happens when 'Porch Thieves' tangle with a NASA Engineer.
Hilarious
[TheMostImportantNews] There is a growing epidemic of package theft in America today, but one former NASA engineer is taking action. Mark Rober spent six months designing a package that would douse package thieves in glitter and fart spray, and the video that he just posted to YouTube showing the results of his “experiment” already has more than 15 million views. If you have not seen it yet, you should definitely check it out. According to Fortune, Rober actually helped design the Curiosity Rover, but now he has become a global YouTube star…
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Saturn is losing its signature rings at a "worst-case scenario" rate, said NASA scientists, and the bands could disappear completely within 100 million years. I blame global warming.
In a study published Monday in the journal "Icarus," researchers confirmed Saturn's rings are disappearing at the maximum rate first estimated through observations by Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes that launched in the 1970s.
The rings are being pulled into the planet "by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn’s magnetic field," NASA said.
The phenomenon is called "ring rain," and it drains enough water from rings to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool every 30 minutes, said James O’Donoghue of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
"From this alone, the entire ring system will be gone in 300 million years," O'Donoghue said in a statement. "But add to this the Cassini-spacecraft measured ring-material detected falling into Saturn’s equator, and the rings have less than 100 million years to live."
Scientists are still trying to learn how Saturn gained its rings, which consist mostly of ice and rock ranging from the size of a grain of sand to that of a house, NASA said.
The study suggests Saturn acquired its rings later in its life span, instead of when it formed 4 billion-plus years ago.
"We are lucky to be around to see Saturn’s ring system, which appears to be in the middle of its lifetime," said O'Donoghue.
An animation released by NASA shows Saturn's inner rings disappearing first as they get sucked into the planet, followed by its outer rings.
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If global warming is caused by increased solar activity (as seems by higher temperatures measured on Mars) this sort of thing would be expected or even predictable.
[Wash Examiner] The Nation of Islam and its leaders have received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the U.S. government since 2008 to teach religious study programs for federal prison inmates, according to records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
A black nationalist group led by Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam preaches that white people are "blue-eyed devils" and Jews are "the synagogue of Satan." Its leaders have received at least $364,500 in contracts and awards from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Justice between fiscal 2008 and fiscal 2019.
The funding was designed to provide "Nation of Islam religious services," "Nation of Islam spiritual guide services," "Nation of Islam study services," and other related programming led by the organization’s leaders, according to Bureau of Prison records. The Nation of Islam has been labeled a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
New York Republican Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, told the Washington Examiner the funding was "beyond the pale."
He said: "Categorically, no group or entity or individual associated any way with Farrakhan or the Nation of Islam should receive any federal funding. What Farrakhan preaches is hatred and anti-Semitism and racism, and to use any federal money for any group that’s he’s involved with that do any type of teaching or proselytizing is just wrong."
Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right, called the funding "really outrageous and remarkable." He noted that a court ruling in 2003 prohibited federal prisons from banning Nation of Islam reading materials on First Amendment grounds. But he said this ruling doesn’t require the U.S. government to provide money to the organization.
[DailyMail] William Shatner said that although the MeToo movement is 'great' he believes that it has become too extreme and likened it to the French Revolution
The 87-year-old said: 'I've got three daughters [aged 60, 57, and 54] and I'm glad that they have more opportunity. At the same time, it's become hysterical'
The Star Trek legend sat down with DailyMailTV for an exclusive interview as he promotes his own Christmas album Shatner Claus Gonna' put his latest album next to this one!:
Shatner also doubled down on his support of the Christmas classic Baby It's Cold Outside after a station in his native Canada took it off the air due to controversy
The actor defended the song, saying he enjoying riling up people and 'the kick of getting somebody upset about something and playing with them verbally'
Shatner revealed he has had to rethink his compliments to women after recently taking a three-hour training course on sexual harassment in the workplace
Shatner said: 'It's all about what is harassment. You might say, as I have on numerous occasions, ''looking good'', ''wow, what a great dress'', ''great legs'''
But, he added: 'I've changed my behavior to quite a degree... because it's a revolution' More @ link...
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.
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