[BaltimoreSun] A man died after being engulfed in flames and running from a portable toilet that was also on fire in the parking lot of M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore on Sunday afternoon.
Police said on Monday that the incident did not appear to be criminal in nature. A fire department spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment Monday.
The man was seen, running and on fire, by a security guard for M&T Bank Stadium around 3 p.m., according to Blair Skinner, a spokeswoman for the Baltimore Fire Department, said Sunday. By the time medics arrived, the man was dead and three portable toilets were on fire. It wasn’t clear how long he had been in the toilet or what had caused the fire. Skinner said arson teams with the Baltimore Police Department would be investigating.
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my first thought was "freebasing" but all those fools went up in flames years ago. The I thought methane from natural causes. Then I realized what city it took place in and I realized it was divine retribution.
Nestled along the piney shores of an East Texas lake, Onalaska lacks an airport.
A WFAA review, however, has found more than 1,000 registered aircraft claiming an Onalaska address. That’s equivalent to one plane for every three Onalaska residents, which is more per capita than anywhere else in the country.In fact, more planes are registered to Onalaska than the number of registered planes in entire cities such as Seattle, San Antonio, San Diego, or even New York.
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Wow - worked for a Part 121 carrier for 24 years and never identified this loophole. Would have saved a ton of hassle establishing offshore JV's for offshore ops. Victor Bout could have saved beaucoup money buying AOC's in Africa with this info
There are regular Joes who just want to sip an adult libation even in the depths of benighted Afghanistan.
[KhaamaPress] The police forces have discovered and dismantled an illegal alcohol distillation plant in southern Kandahar city,
...formerly the Taliban capitol, deep in Pashtun country...
the local security officials said.
Provincial Police Chief Gen. Tadin Khan said the plant was dismantled during an operation which was conducted in the vicinity of the 9th police district of the city.
Gen. Tadin Khan further added that the plant was illegally operating in a residential area.
According to Gen. Tadin, the security forces also confiscated more than 150 bottles of alcohol during the operation and an individual has been incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in connection to the operation of the plant.
According to reports, this is the first time the Afghan forces are discovering an alcoholic distillation plant in southern Kandahar province.
[ELUNIVERSAL] The president of Colombia, Iván Duque, stood at 42.7% regarding the favorable perception of Colombian citizens towards him, this happened as a result of his firm policy against the government of Nicolás Maduro and the army guerrilla of National Liberation (ELN), according to a survey.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... 50.4% of Colombians still disapprove of their management, indicated the firm Invamer in the study contracted by several media outlets.
The rejection of the head of state went from 64.8% in November to 50.4% in February, while support jumped from 27.2% three months ago to 42.7% in the current period, AFP reported.
The change in their indicators was due to the "firm attitude" towards the Maduro government in Venezuela, said Semana magazine , one of the media that published the survey.
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[ELUNIVERSAL] On Monday two uniformed dead were the result of an attack on a police post on the border of Colombia and Venezuela, according to authorities the action was perpetrated by two gunnies who entered Venezuelan territory.
The assailants rubbed out Customs coppers and maimed a vigilante , according to AFP.
The attack took place in a border bridge that joins the city of Arauca with Venezuelan territory.
The police said the attackers "crossed the river on foot" bordering to commit the attack, which cost the life of the patrolman Jeison Bejarano, 26, and Oscar Alberto Gonzalez, 28.
Until now they have not blamed any gang as responsible, however the governor of the department of Arauca, Ricardo Alvarado, pointed out that they would be members of organizations operating from Venezuela.
"There are groups (armed) that do not operate within the territory (Colombian) and I can not go out to cross the river," the president told Blu Radio.
In Arauca, commandos of the National Liberation Army (ELN) operate, the last active guerrilla group recognized in Colombia, as well as dissidents of the now defunct rebel organization FARC.
Supported by military intelligence reports, the Colombian government denounced that the ELN takes refuge on the Venezuelan side of a border punished by smuggling and drug trafficking.
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[TheDrive] Russia has confirmed that it did indeed sell long-range 40N6 surface-to-air missiles to China as part of a sale of S-400 surface-to-air missile systems. At the same time, the Russians have revealed that none of those interceptors ever reached their destination after the ship carrying them got caught in a storm that resulted in the loss of the entire shipment, possibly with some of the missiles physically going overboard into the sea.
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Ship spotters noted that the Nikifor Begichev, a general-purpose cargo ship heading for China from the Russian port of Ust Luga in the Gulf of Finland, experienced unspecified trouble with cargo on its open deck after running into a storm in or around the English Channel. On Jan. 3, 2019, it turned around and subsequently returned to port.
Two days later, the Ocean Power, a roll-on/roll-off cargo ship known to be involved in Russian arms shipments, also made an abrupt turn around in the Baltic Sea. It then sailed back to the port of Koskolovo, also in Russia in the Gulf of Finland.
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If there are containers full of 40N6s sitting on the bottom of the sea, they could be goldmines for Western intelligence services ‐ if they can recover the interceptors or at least parts of them. The U.S. Navy, in particular, has extensive deep-sea salvage and intelligence-collecting capabilities, including the specially modified Seawolf-class submarine USS Jimmy Carter. Is a "batch" missing one or two still a batch?
[DAWN] North Korea, which suffers from poverty and isolation partly due to international sanctions imposed against the country for its nuclear and missile tests, has proclaimed a shift in national focus from nuclear weapons development to economic development.
"North Korea has done a lot of case studies on economic development plans that brought rapid growth to other countries. Vietnam is one of them. Its biggest concern is how to open its doors with Kim’s regime remaining intact. In other words, how to control its people while allowing them to set up private businesses," Kim Young-hui, a North Korean defector and senior research fellow at the state-run Korea Development Bank, told The Korea Herald.
Pyongyang’s willingness to borrow economic development ideas from Hanoi is no secret. During the inter-Korean summit in April last year, Chairman Kim reportedly expressed interest in emulating the reform model to South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho visited Hanoi at the end of November 2018 to study the Doi Moi Policy, an economic reform policy Vietnam adopted in 1986 after realising its socialist model was about to collapse. The inflation rate had skyrocketed to 700 per cent due to US-led trade embargoes as well as poor access to reconstruction aid after prolonged wars with Cambodia and the United States.
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That is better than being the Chicoms little mad dog.
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Won’t work. Vietnam was a capitalist country governed by a European major power for several generations before going commie. North Korea was exploited by Japan for decades. There is n knowledge of commerce to revive.
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Politicians elected with government employee union monies make a pension pact to fleece the taxpayer for whom they had no interest in fiduciary responsibilities in the end. Such pacts are invalid because of the clear conflict of interest.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rod Rosenstein, the U.S. deputy attorney general who appointed a special counsel to investigate possible ties between Russia and President Donald Trump’s campaign, is expected to step down by mid March, a Justice Department official said on Monday.
Rosenstein had been expected to depart shortly after new Attorney General William Barr assumed office. Barr was confirmed for the role by the U.S. Senate last week.
The Justice official said Rosenstein’s departure was not related to renewed allegations that he considered wearing a wire in meetings with Trump and using the 25th amendment of the U.S. Constitution to remove the president from office.
Rosenstein, the No. 2 official at the Justice Department, in May 2017 named Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate ties between Trump’s 2016 presidential election campaign and Moscow. The investigation continues.
A registered Republican, Rosenstein made the decision because his then-boss, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a Trump supporter during the 2016 campaign, had recused himself from the issue.
Last September, the New York Times reported Rosenstein in 2017 had suggested secretly recording Trump and recruiting Cabinet members to oust the president using the provisions of the Constitution’s 25th Amendment.
[The Hill] A group of 16 states filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to block President Trump's move to declare a national emergency to get funding for his proposed southern border wall.
The states, 15 of which have Democratic governors, called the situation at the border a "manufactured crisis."
"President Trump has veered the country toward a constitutional crisis of his own making. For years, President Trump has repeatedly stated his intention to build a wall across the United States-Mexico border," reads the suit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
The states are asking the court to permanently enjoin the Trump administration from building a border wall without an appropriation by Congress, permanently block the administration from diverting federal funding toward construction of a border wall; and declare the national emergency declaration unlawful.
The suit says the states are bringing forth the injunction "to protect their residents, natural resources, and economic interests from President Donald J. Trump’s flagrant disregard of fundamental separation of powers principles engrained in the United States Constitution."
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Have them all arrested for aiding and abetting a foreign invasion of the United States. Once convicted, build a gallows at a border crossing and hang them. Leave the corpses there til they rot and come part.
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Which 16 States? Seems some basic reporting would help the matter. Wonder if it'll be kicked out based on standing (IOW, if you're not a border State, you have no standing).
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...and the one 'Republican' governor? My money's on my homeboy, Charlie Baker (MA).
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So the other 31 National Emergency declarations from Bush and Obama where they also directed funds during the declaration were ok. But this one is a bridge too far?
Fuck off and die, all of you. You are all in a state of sedition and need to be crushed.
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In addition to Maine, California, and New York, the group of states also includes Delaware, Oregon, Hawaii, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Virginia, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico.
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building a border wall without an appropriation by Congress,
I though Congress did appropriate funds - $20B - several years ago, when a bunch of Dems voted for it. Pre-Trump, of course.
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1st, if you aren't a border state you have no say.
2nd, the border is controlled by the Federal government, if you aren't the Federal government you have no say.
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Didn't the Courts rule that the FEDERAL government has sole jurisdiction over the border back when Arizona tried to enforce border security on it's own?
[DAWN] A religious teacher was incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... in Wah Cantonment on Monday for attempting to rape an eight-year-old girl who used to come to his house to learn the Holy Koran, police said.
According to the First Information Report (FIR) of the case registered on the victim's father's complaint, the victim used to visit the residence of a female Koran teacher in their neighbourhood to study the holy book.
The father stated in the complaint that on February 16, 2019, his daughter went to the Koran teacher's house after Fajr (morning) prayers. However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... she came running back home after a short while and started weeping.
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Frightened and shaken, the minor girl did not initially describe her ordeal. But after about 30 minutes, according to her father, she revealed that the brother of her Koran teacher ‐ who also tutored students on the holy book ‐ had tried to sexually assault her.
The suspect had let the victim go after she started screaming, but threatened to kill her if she described the incident to anyone, according to the FIR.
The father revealed that when his wife went to the suspect's house after learning about the incident, other women from the area gathered there as well. They claimed that the suspect had assaulted their sons and daughters as well, but they had previously kept mum about it.
Station House Officer Wah Saddar Raja Aizaz Azeem told DawnNewsTV that the suspect was previously booked in 2016 for attempting to sexually assault a minor girl.
However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... despite serving jail time in the previous case, the suspect had persisted in attempts to sexually abuse other minor girls, the SHO added.
The suspect has been arrested and a case was registered against him under Sections 376 (rape) and 511 (attempt to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or for a shorter term).
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attempting to rape an eight-year-old girl who used to come to his house to learn the Holy Koran
Just illustrating the holy Koran (life of the Prophet) to her.
[devex] WASHINGTON ‐ The U.S. Global Development Lab is an innovation hub inside America’s foreign aid agency, which is tasked with taking "smart risks" that can unlock new and innovative approaches to tackling development challenges. Over the past few years, one of the challenges the lab has taken on is the U.S. Agency for International Development’s lack of options for deploying its people to insecure and conflict-affected environments.
For years USAID has struggled with a conundrum: to contribute to U.S. national security objectives the agency needs to be able to operate in places that present national security risks; but a culture of risk aversion ‐ which has intensified since the 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya ‐ often restricts U.S. civilian officials to capital cities where their security can be better guaranteed. That tendency to confine U.S. civilians to secure areas ‐ sometimes referred to as "fortressification" ‐ creates distance between USAID personnel and the communities they strive to serve.
The gap widens when those communities are located "outside the wire," in places where violent extremism, instability, and state fragility pose additional risks.
In Feb. 2018, the Global Development Lab quietly released a series of reports it had commissioned from the Frontier Design Group to undertake research and development on new approaches to countering violent extremism.
One of the reports includes a stark observation: "Virtually everyone" the authors of the report consulted ‐ an assortment of military, intelligence, and development officials ‐ "shared a widespread sentiment that the USG [U.S. government] is woefully underperforming in non-permissive and denied environments."
[Breibart] The Utah state House has passed a bill that prohibits abortions sought expressly because the unborn baby has been diagnosed with Down syndrome.
The legislation passed the state House, 54-15, along party lines, on Friday.
Republican state Rep. Karianne Lisonbee sponsored the legislation, H.B. 166, which states pregnant women must be provided with specific information prior to having an abortion. Additionally, the bill prohibits a person from "performing, inducing, or attempting to perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman who is seeking the abortion solely because an unborn child has or may have Down syndrome."
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Geeeze. No more perfect people in our fair land. Miss Nancy, Miss Dianne, Mr. Sparticus, Mr. Adam ****ff, the 2009 Nobel Peace prize recipient, and many other etcs, all sent to a landfill in the future. Poor landfill.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh nooooooooooo!
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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.
[BaltimoreSun] A man died after being engulfed in flames and running from a portable toilet that was also on fire in the parking lot of M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore on Sunday afternoon.
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