A woman who allegedly attacked a man sporting a "Make America Great Again" hat was apprehended Tuesday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after authorities discovered she is unlawfully present in the U.S.
*Snicker* Sometimes natural consequences are totally awesome.
"Deportation officers with ICE’s Fugitive Operations Team enjugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! Rosiane Santos, an unlawfully present citizen of Brazil, today near Falmouth, Massachusetts," ICE front man John Mohan said, CBS News reported. The Howie Carr Show first reported about the arrest.
"Santos is currently facing local charges for assault and other offenses. She is presently in ICE custody and has been entered into removal proceedings before the federal immigration courts," Mohan added.
Authorities charged Santos, 41, with disorderly conduct after she attacked Bryton Turner at a restaurant in Falmouth, Massachusetts, CBS reported on Feb. 21. Santos batted the hat off Turner’s head and commenced verbally assaulting him, according to Falmouth Police.
So much for all the claims that illegal immigrants are so worried about being caught that they are shy, secretive, and work very hard not to be noticed by the authorities.
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So much for all the claims that illegal immigrants are so worried about being caught that they are shy, secretive, and work very hard not to be noticed by the authorities.
Politicians, entertainers and the media (but I repeat myself) tell them it's their country now. Some of them are gullible or arrogant enough to believe it...
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Who again says illegals aren't criminal? Hello Santos, shades of Logan's Run - No Sanctuary on your sorry rump.
Hat tip: gCaptain
Venezuela is running out of space to store its sanction-stained crude that few dare to buy, forcing it to reduce output at a time when the world is thirsty for heavy, sulfurous oil.
Tankers holding 8.36 million barrels of Venezuelan crude worth upwards of a half-billion dollars are floating off the country's coast as the nation struggles to find buyers for its oil following new U.S. sanctions in January. An armada of 16 ships holds cargoes belonging to state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA, Chevron Corp., Valero Energy Corp. and Rosneft Oil Co PJSC, according to shipping reports and ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg.
Oil ventures owned by PDVSA with Rosneft, Chevron, Total SA and Equinor ASA, whose upgraders convert tar-like Venezuelan crude into oil that refineries can process, reduced rates this week because they ran out of space to store crude, according to people with knowledge of situation. With few buyers willing to take PDVSA's oil, the alternative was to put some of that oil onto tankers to clear space and continue to operate at lower rates.
The backlog of ships and growing difficulty in keeping its oil upgraders running underscore the impact U.S. sanctions are having on PDVSA. Shipments to the America, once Venezuela's largest customer, have dried up. Without access to the U.S. financial system, on which many refiners and trading houses rely on to finance purchases, PDVSA is having trouble finding buyers outside of countries such as India and China, to whom it owes oil in payment for past loans.
The PDVSA-Rosneft joint-venture Petromonagas upgrader isn't processing oil after running out of space to store their production, a person with knowledge of the situation said. PDVSA-Chevron's Petropiar venture has reduced output for the same reason, other people said. Petrocedeno, a PDVSA-Total-Equinor venture, is running out of oil to process as a ban on sales of heavy naphtha to PDVSA has made it difficult to ship the heavy oil through pipelines from inland fields to the upgrader, another person said.
While Venezuela has been having a hard time selling its oil, the rest of the world struggles to find heavy barrels after Canada's self-imposed oil curtailment and OPEC supply cuts reduced the availability of the type of oil Venezuela produces.
The tightness in heavy oil supply translated into higher prices for Colombia's flagship oil Castilla, which competes with Venezuelan oil in the global market. Castilla for loading in March traded $4 per barrel less than global benchmark Brent, according to people with knowledge of situation. That compares with a discount of $9.80 for cargoes that loaded in February. All that sanctioned heavy crude oil that nobody wants to touch.
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So why not sanction Rosneft, Chevron, Total SA and Equinor ASA.
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The ironic thing is, the US is the only country that can refine it in bulk. And with our fracking success our refineries are switching from heavy to sweet crude.
Venezuela will have no market in a decade or so since one one will be able to refine their sludge.
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At least the holds of the tankers won't rust much, so they've got that going for them...which is nice
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at a time when the world is thirsty for heavy, sulfurous oil.
Could someone who knows explain this to me? I've always understood refining this Venezuelan oil is something akin to separating the individual ingredients of toothpaste...is it more viscous or enduring or otherwise special?
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swksvolFF, it is all about chemistry and how deeply buried the source materials are underground. Natural gas, oil, and coal are different minerals underground that arise from the same sediments.
Natural gas has very short carbon chains, one to five carbons in a row. Oil has longer chains, six to dozens. (Octane is eight carbons in a row.)
Venezuelan crude is between oil and coal and is bitumen or asphalt, which has lots more carbon organized into many dense rings. Coal has even longer crazy carbon structures.
Refineries take whatever they get and then use different catalysts to break down the carbon chains and remove impurities, like sulfur, to make the products normal people use, such as gasoline, motor oil, asphalt, propane, and natural gas.
[ELUNIVERSAL] The president of the National Assembly (AN), Juan Guaidó, recognized by more than 50 countries as president in charge of Venezuela, said he expects to begin his return to Caracas "in the next few hours," sources confirmed to the Spanish news agency Efe.
These sources stressed that at this moment they are "studying several ways" to reach Venezuela, but they added that "it will be very soon" when he is back in Caracas in order to exercise the functions of interim president, a position he announced that he assumed the past January 23.
"An inmate does not serve anyone, an exiled president either, we are in an unprecedented area (...) And my role and duty is to be in Caracas despite the risks, regardless of what that implies," he said. Guaidó in an interview broadcast on Tuesday by channel NTN24, reported AFP.
Guaidó arrived in Colombia last Friday to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian aid along the border with Venezuela, where he faces a severe economic crisis, with lack of food and medicines that the Government of Nicolás Maduro attributes to the sanctions of the United States. ).
The frustrated activity culminated in festivities with troops loyal to Nicolás Maduro.
Guaidó also participated in the Bogotá meeting of the Lima Group, which promised to tighten the fence against Maduro but without resorting to force.
The countries that do not know Maduro claim that their election was fraudulent. Faced with this scenario, Guaidó, self-proclaimed on January 23 as the responsible ruler.
The head of the Parliament insisted that he will return this week to Caracas to exercise his "functions", even "if they decide to take the step" of imprisoning him.
Colombia denounced "serious and credible threats" against Guaidó and blamed the "usurper" government for what might happen to him. Maduro has said that Guaidó must respond to justice.
On Monday, the vice president of the United States, Mike Pence, insisted in Bogota that "all options" are still open with Maduro, which is well received by Guaidó.
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Someone uploaded a video on Facebook of an aid truck trying to outrun 3 Venezuelan amored cars that were firing on the truck driver. The truck did come to a stop but the firing continued for long time.
[ELUNIVERSAL] President Nicolás Maduro urged the head of the National Assembly (AN), Juan Guaidó, recognized by more than 50 countries as president in charge of Venezuela, to "respect the law" and added that if he returns to the country "he will have to see the face of justice ", since the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) had imposed a precautionary measure where he could not leave the country.
"If a court says that Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... or Barack Obama That’s just how white folks will do you.... can not leave the country during a judicial investigation, if they leave and come back, what should the US law do? Let everyone draw their conclusions, "said the head of state during an interview with ABC News.
He added that "no one can evade the law. In this case, Mr. Guaidó has to answer to justice, not to Nicolás Maduro."
In the interview, Maduro also accused the US government of "fabricating a crisis" to justify intervention not only in the country, but in South America.
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...I got a bad feeling about this. Ferdinand Marcos thought he could get rid of Benigno Aquino with a 'deniable' assassination, and Maduro is just as dumb as ol' Ferd was.
Mike
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Diosdado Cabello, known to be the second most-powerful man in Venezuela behind President Nicolás Maduro, sent two of his three children to China
Airline boarding passes showed different names for Cabello's daughter, Daniella Cabello, and his youngest son, Tito Cabello, raising suspicions
Both children boarded the Havana to Beijing flight as Desiree Contreras and Tito Contreras, apparently using their mother's surname to hide their identities
The siblings left Havana on Friday and made it to Moscow on Saturday before connecting to a Beijing-bound flight that touched down Sunday
In Colombia, U.S. vice president Mike Pence met Juan Guaido, recognized by the U.S. as the legitimate president, along with other regional leaders
Pence announced more sanctions on the regime, singling out four governors, while at the border clashes continued in protest at an aid blockade
Because non-Han children will be so welcome in China?
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[WashingtonPost] Unlike North Korea’s Kim Jong Un or Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, Maduro is not a one-man cult or clan leader. Rather, he rules as the public face of an omnipotent political class accused of immense corruption and narco-trafficking. While presenting themselves as red-clad revolutionaries, they have snatched up million-dollar condos in Miami and sent their children to elite international schools.
The global focus has been on Maduro as strongman, an alleged usurper who opponents say staged his own reelection. Yet the re-energized opposition under Guaidó and his international backers, led by Trump, faces a broad network of figures who control food distribution, exchange rates, armories and bribes. Maduro’s fall alone, many observers say, may not bring landmark change.
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this is analysis from late January but valid and timely anyway
post Maduro, there will be a truth and reconciliation problem that will be at least as difficult as the financial reconstruction of the company
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Trump applies pressure beyond Scotch [10News] A container filled with 90,000 bottles of vodka believed to be for sanctions-hit North Korea has been seized by Dutch customs agents, officials said Tuesday.
Three-thousand cases of the spirit were found by officers at the port of Rotterdam aboard a ship owned by China's Cosco Shipping, said Roul Velleman, a spokesman for the Dutch customs agency.
Velleman said officers decided to check the container based on a "risk profile" provided by the Foreign Ministry.
"We follow a risk profile and we had information that this container could be carrying something," Velleman said. "And it was right. It was vodka -- destination China, probably to go to North Korea."
North Korea has been slapped with a number of international sanctions, which include a ban on the import of certain luxury goods, for its continued ballistic missile testing and violations of UN resolutions.
Those sanctions were the reason behind this particular seizure -- which was ordered by the Dutch minister for trade, Sigrid Kaag -- her spokesman said
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Dude! The party with the Russians is cancelled!
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[Axios] The New York Times reports that experts from the U.S. played a role in the Chinese government's use of DNA samples to keep tabs on its Uighur population — the largely Muslim ethnic group whose members the government has also forced into camps.
The big picture, per the NYT: Almost 36 million people took part in a DNA testing program in Xinjiang, the part of China where the government's campaign against Uighurs is most pronounced. Many Uighurs were coerced into giving the samples.
An American company, Thermo Fisher, supplied the equipment the Chinese government used to conduct the testing, per the Times. Those tests weren't used for health screenings, as advertised, but as part of an effort to keep track of the ethnic minority population.
China accounted for 10% of the company's business in 2017, and American officials have criticized the company previously for its willingness to sell China equipment that could be used for tracking and monitoring.
Thermo Fisher said this week that it would stop selling equipment in Xinjiang, but not the rest of China.
China also relied on DNA samples from Yale geneticist Kenneth Kidd to help perfect its technology and prove that it could effectively use DNA to identify Uighurs.
Kidd told the NYT he didn't know that had happened, and that he was "not particularly happy" with the way his data had been used.
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Chinese trying to find out inactivation of which genes makes a Muslim?
DNA is a good way to ID individuals, as US police investigators have been demonstrating.
An interest sci-fi meme involves the creation of artificial pathogens designed to kill segments of a human population based on specific elements in their DNA, while not affecting others at all.
[Breitbart] Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) will reopen an idled Detroit engine plant, invest billions into five existing Michigan plants, and create about 6,500 U.S. auto jobs in a move reflecting President Trump’s economic nationalist agenda.
The Plans for Michigan
In an announcement Tuesday, Fiat Chrysler executives revealed their plans to reopen the Mack Avenue II engine plant in Detroit by investing $1.6 billion into the site to convert it into a manufacturing plant for the company’s Jeep Grand Cherokee and a new three-row full size Jeep SUV. The investment to reopen the plant ‐ which was shuttered nearly seven years ago leaving hundreds of American workers laid off ‐ will create 3,850 U.S. jobs.
[IsraelTimes] A German court rules that Germany’s domestic intelligence agency shouldn’t have publicly announced that it is investigating the country’s biggest far-right party.
An administrative court in Cologne ...the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth populated city in Germany.... on Tuesday grants an injunction sought by Alternative for Germany against the BfV intelligence agency.
The agency announced last month that it was increasing its scrutiny of the party, known by its German acronym AfD, amid concerns that it is flirting with extremism.
The Cologne court rules that publicly describing the party as a "case to be investigated" was disproportionate and breached its constitutional rights. The court does not rule on the probe itself.
AfD welcomes the injunction, which can be appealed.
[DAWN] Multan Home of the Multan Sultans... Sultans clinched their second victory of the season with a well-rounded performance in both innings, to defeat Islamabad United by six wickets in the 16th match of the Pakistain Super League (PSL) at the Dubai Cricket Stadium.
Daniel Christian was crowned man of the match for his brilliant bowling spell of three wickets for just 19 runs.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] The United Methodist Church is in danger of breaking up after a small majority of its 2019 conference attendees voted to keep LGBTQ bans in place.
At its general conference in St. Louis Monday, the 800 clergy members held a preliminary vote to accept the Traditional Church plan by 56 percent, which would continue to keep LGBTQ bans against clergy and same-sex weddings.
While the final vote on the plan will happen late Tuesday, continuing with the Traditional plan is worried to cause a schism within the church and lead to supporters of LGBTQ inclusion to split.
An alternate initiative, called the One Church Plan, only received 47 percent support from the clergy, despite being backed by a majority of the Council of Bishops.
This plan would change current language in the denomination’s Book of Discipline stating that "homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching" and would leave decisions about LGBTQ acceptance for churches to decide regionally.
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An alternate initiative, called the One Church Plan, only received 47 percent support from the clergy, despite being backed by a majority of the Council of Bishops.
Really? Disband your Council if you don't believe in "organized religion"...
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.
[10News] A container filled with 90,000 bottles of vodka believed to be for sanctions-hit North Korea has been seized by Dutch customs agents, officials said Tuesday.
[Axios] The New York Times reports that experts from the U.S. played a role in the Chinese government's use of DNA samples to keep tabs on its Uighur population — the largely Muslim ethnic group whose members the government has also forced into camps.
...the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth populated city in Germany....
