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A possible possibility. Although one might expect that to show up on the CCTV footage. Another possible possibility is the whole thing was a hoax from the get-go.
What I like about this affair is how it went from a stupid-ass fake hate crime to a massive criminal cover-up that makes Chicago look even more corrupt than usual. If you told me back in the hippie days that in the future, I'd feel bad for the Chicago cops, I woulda laughed and asked for some of what you were smoking.
I bet there were some investigators who went into this with the best of intentions, gonna catch those SOBs who sullied Navy Pier and thumped one of our B-List locals.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) ‐ A Missouri man who threatened President Donald Trump and sped to the White House with a gun had driven 13 hours without stopping before he was pulled over along a West Virginia highway Wednesday, a trooper said.
Eric Leonardo Charron of Kansas City, Missouri, was arraigned in Preston County Magistrate Court on Thursday in Kingwood on charges of reckless driving and being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm.
State police said Charron was going 130 mph (209 kph) ‐ nearly twice the speed limit ‐ on Interstate 68 when he was pulled over near Bruceton Mills. The incident prompted the interstate to be closed for nearly four hours. Wearing a diaper a la Former Astronaut Lisa Nowak™
Trooper D.W. Satterfield said in a criminal complaint that Charron, 42, indicated he was traveling to the White House and that he was running late to a dinner he was invited to by Trump. The suspect also said he had to travel to the Pentagon "to meet with the leader of the Army to return a phone," according to the complaint.
Charron later said he had "special hearing" that "would tell him to do bad things once he arrived at the White House or The Pentagon," Satterfield said, adding the "special hearing" also told Charron to remove Satterfield's gun from its holster while being transported from the traffic stop.
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Those weren't actually special voices; he was somehow connected with MSNBC.
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Meth does interesting things to the brain. More from the article:
Satterfield said a vehicle search turned up a handgun, 300 rounds of ammunition and gunpowder. In addition, manuscripts written by Charron contained "subjects ranging from time travel, levitating watercraft, and mythical creatures such as the 'Chupacubra.'"
The trooper said Charron admitted using methamphetamine recently and his pupils were dilated despite bright conditions outside.
Dan Beam, who was a member of the World War II Greatest Generation, passes away this week at a mighty old age. He loved to sing and even though he was never a professional singer I wanted to exclusively share the sound of an amazing voice from an amazing generation of Americans who saved the world from evil. Enjoy.
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WASHINGTON ‐ Andy Marshall, who ran the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment for more than 40 years, has died at the age of 97.
The news was announced at a House Armed Services Committee hearing by ranking member Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, who cited Marshall as a driver of new game-changing technologies and a thought leader in handling great power competition.
"I can think of fewer people who have had a bigger impact of focusing our defense efforts, our national security, in the right direction than Mr. Marshall," Thornberry said. "He has been before our committee I don’t know how many times over the years. So I wanted to note that passing, but also to honor his memory because he made such a difference."
The Office of Net Assessment is an independent organization within the Defense Department. It’s charged with identifying emerging or future threats as well as opportunities for the U.S. James Baker has run the office since 2015, when Marshall retired at the age of 93.
Known as farsighted, idiosyncratic, and free of political and bureaucratic thinking, Marshall made the office into an extension of himself. He was credited with grooming some of Washington’s leading thinkers, such as Gen. Paul Selva, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a large number of defense analysts in the think tank community.
An expert on nuclear strategy with the think tank Rand, Marshall was brought into the Pentagon during the Nixon administration to provide deep, long-term planning assessments about ways to impose costs on potential foreign competitors.
Allegedly seen by Chinese defense officials as a great strategic thinker and nicknamed the "Yoda" of the Pentagon, the legend of Marshall was canonized in 2015 with the publication of "The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy," by Andrew Krepinevich and Barry Watts.
At the time of Marshall’s retirement, Defense News wrote: "No single individual has had a greater, nor more sustained, effect on U.S. national security, whether through his work to ensure success during the Cold War, or the decades after by consistently finding ways to impose strategic costs on America’s adversaries."
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[DAWN] Facebook is extending its ban on hate speech to prohibit the promotion and support of white nationalism and white separatism.
The company previously allowed such material even though it has long banned white supremacists. The social network said on Wednesday that it didn’t apply the ban previously to expressions of white nationalism because it linked such expressions with broader concepts of nationalism and separatism such as American pride or Basque separatism (which are still allowed).
But civil rights groups and academics called this view "misguided" and have long pressured the company to change its stance. Facebook said it concluded after months of "conversations" with them that white nationalism and separatism cannot be meaningfully separated from white supremacy and organised hate groups.
Critics have "raised these issues to the highest levels at Facebook [and held] a number of working meetings with their staff as we’ve tried to get them to the right place," said Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a Washington-based legal advocacy group.
"This is long overdue as the country continues to deal with the grip of hate and the increase in violent white supremacy," she said. "We need the tech sector to do its part to combat these efforts."
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OK, what about violent rhetoric from BLACK nationalists (Black Panthers, Nation of Islam) - or Hispanic Nationalists (La Raza, "THE Race")? Hm?
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#1, hey, they use the SPLC as their guide book. Nuff said. By doing so they become co-defendants in any libel claims.
It's about power. It will be interesting, given what the EU just passed in its bid to shut down the free speech on the internet, if Facebook et al high profile targets, won't get its wings clipped anyway. There are other players in the game.
MEXICO CITY (AP) ‐ Mexico is bracing for the possible arrival of the "mother of all caravans," even as doubts arise over whether the group of Central American migrants will be all that big.
Interior Secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero has said a caravan of migrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala could be forming.
"We have information that a new caravan is forming in Honduras, that they’re calling ’the mother of all caravans,’ and they are thinking it could have more than 20,000 people," Sanchez Cordero said Wednesday.
But a WhatsApp group calling for people to gather Saturday in El Salvador to set off for Guatemala only has about 206 members.
Activist Irineo Mujica, who has accompanied several caravans in Mexico, said reports about "the mother of all caravans" were false, claiming "this is information that (U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen) Nielsen is using to create fear."
His group, Pueblo Sin Fronteras, said in a statement there was no evidence the new caravan would be that large, noting "there has never been a caravan of the size that Sanchez Cordero mentioned." Indeed, past caravans hit very serious logistical hurdles at 7,000-strong.
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Why aren't we treating the organizers as the hostile agents they clearly are? Raising bodies of foreign nationals to invade multiple countries should be enough to make you an outlaw.
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Close the border for a couple days, stop remittances, and watch Messico have a shitfit
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This whole thing is fueled by Mexican support and their contemp for USA. Close the border and halt remittances as suggested above and make this parasite feel some serious pain. Also, put troops on the border and threaten martial law, a condition that allows the immediate return across the border of everyone without the lunacy of “due process”which has become the loophole of sovereign suicide for the US. Enough!
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Venezuelan Government? Wrong. Per the US and many others, the current regime is not the legitimate government. How about a correction: "MADURO Regime" That's more accurate.
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Hypothesis: Lacking electricity to run the shredders, and faced with an enormous pile of documents, they decided it was easier and quicker to simply burn the entire building down.
[VOA] SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA ‐
South Korean President Moon Jae-in will travel to the United States in two weeks for a summit with President Donald Trump on the stalemated North Korean nuclear diplomacy.
It would be their first meeting since Trump’s second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi last month collapsed because of disputes on U.S.-led sanctions. The breakdown of that summit put Moon, a liberal who has shuttled between Washington and Pyongyang, in a difficult position on how to further engage North Korea and facilitate the nuclear diplomacy.
Moon’s office said he will visit the United States April 10-11 discuss how to strengthen their countries’ alliance and achieve North Korea’s complete denuclearization and peace on the Korean Peninsula.
The White House said Trump and first lady Melania Trump will welcome Moon and his wife, Kim Jung-sook, to the White House April 11. It said in a statement the alliance between the U.S. and South Korea "remains the linchpin of peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and in the region."
[APNEWS] South Korean President Moon Jae-in will travel to the United States in two weeks for a summit with President 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... on stalemated North Korean nuclear diplomacy.
It would be their first meeting since Trump’s second summit with North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... in Vietnam last month. Their talks collapsed due to disputes on U.S.-led sanctions on the North, and North Korea recently threatened to quit the nuclear diplomacy.
Moon, a liberal who favors greater ties with North Korea and a negotiated solution to the nuclear crisis, shuttled between Washington and Pyongyang to facilitate the nuclear diplomacy. The breakdown of the Hanoi summit subsequently put Moon in a difficult position on how to further engage North Korea and promote the nuclear diplomacy.
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South Korean broadcaster KBS exclusivly obtained the list of 104 North Korean nuclear facilities. Among them, Seoul said, 40 core facilities should be completely and irreversibly dismantled to achieve the complete denuclearization. This was notably produced by the ROK government. http://t.co/P97FeTrh17
[France24] Kosovo has banned all gambling for the next decade in a bid to crack down on crime after two casino staff were murdered last week.
Betting, on sports in particular, has become hugely popular in recent years in Kosovo, one of Europe's poorest countries where unemployment affects around one third of the 1.8 population.
Speaking to the country's parliament, which passed the bill late Thursday, Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj said the measure was aimed at "strengthening public security".
"We will not allow these venues to be arenas of crime that claim people's lives," he wrote later on Facebook.
A police officer has been arrested as a suspect for one of killings, which took place earlier this month in two separate casinos in a matter of days.
Ahead of the ban, the police shuttered most of the 470 gambling sites in Kosovo.
Kosovo's government rakes in some 20 million euros ($22 million) annually through taxes on gambling.
The move comes after neighbouring Albania banned gambling in January in a bid to tackle organised crime and social ills like addiction and poverty.s
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the most dubious NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... ally.... 's central bank Thursday sought to reassure investors over its foreign currency reserves after the sharpest drop in the local lira since a spat with the United States triggered a currency crisis last year.
The lira slid nearly 6 percent Friday, prompting President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... to call for a crackdown on market "manipulations" and Ottoman Turkish regulators to open a probe into investment banks.
After recovering losses early this week, the lira fell again around 5 percent to 5.59 against the dollar on Thursday morning, prompting Erdogan to blame fluctuations on a Western plot to undermine Turkey.
Lira turmoil is sensitive for Erdogan before Sunday's municipal elections when his ruling AKP party is battling to win major cities after the economy slipped into recession for the first time in a decade.
In an interview with state-run Anadolu agency, central bank governor Murat Cetinkaya said the bank continues to implement its reserve-building policy.
"Although reserves may fluctuate due to periodic factors, there has been a consistent uptrend in reserves in the medium term," Cetinkaya said.
He said gross reserves had increased across all items by $4.3 billion and by March 27 reached $96.7 billion.
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Erdogan on Thursday described the currency fluctuations as part of a plot by the West to "corner Turkey, particularly by the US."
"We should discipline the speculators in the market," he said.
The Ottoman Turkish leader also repeated his demand the central bank cut interest rates to help curb inflation that is still in double digits.
Analysts said worries over reserves and attempts by the Ottoman Turkish authorities to control short selling of the lira had also spooked investors.
"The Ottoman Turkish policy response since the lira sell off last week has been extreme and I think ultimately will prove counterproductive," said Timothy Ash, senior sovereign strategist at BlueBay Asset Management.
Turkey's main stock index on Thursday was down by 0.73 percent, having on Wednesday dropped by 5.67 percent already, according to Anadolu agency.
Turkey's lira collapsed last year after a diplomatic standoff with the United States led to tit-for-tat sanctions and an increase on US tariffs on some Ottoman Turkish products.
The AKP has built its electoral success over the last decade and a half on Turkey's strong economic growth under Erdogan who has been in power for 16 years first as premier and then as president.
Analysts see Turkey's economy at risk because of its heavy foreign debt repayments and investors' wariness of the direction of policy making under Erdogan's government.
[DAWN] A Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) pilot who was stopped from operating a flight at the Islamabad International Airport (IIA) last week on suspicions of being under the influence tested negative for alcohol at a private laboratory.
The pilot failed a breath analyser test before PIA flight PKA-785 to Birmingham, which had 288 passengers including 11 children on board.
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said in its report that Capt Pir Ommar Khayyam tested positive for alcohol during routine random snap checks for alcohol. The test was conducted by Dr Farhana Badar as IIA on March 21, 2019, at around 11:30am; the pilot’s blood alcohol concentration (BAC) was found to be 0.12 per mille.
The test was repeated with a fresh mouthpiece after 15 minutes, and also came back positive but with a lower concentration ‐ 0.09 per mille. According to protocol, the pilot was off-loaded in the presence of Dr Nasir Zareen and Dr Naveed Iqbal Janjua from the CAA.
The report said the pilot was accompanied by both doctors to a laboratory in Rawalpindi where he underwent testing for alcohol and other psychoactive substances two hours later. The captain was "fully conscious and extremely cooperative" the whole time.
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[ABC] A woman in Scotland feels virtually no pain or stress thanks to a mutation in a previously unknown gene, according to a new study.
Jo Cameron was in her mid-60s when her pain insensitivity was diagnosed by Dr. Devjit Srivastava, a consultant in anesthesia and pain medicine who was overseeing her care at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness, Scotland, where she underwent a usually very painful operation for osteoarthritis of the hand. Srivastava was shocked when Cameron reported feeling no pain before or after surgery and didn't need any painkillers other than acetaminophen on the day of her operation.
Cameron had recently been diagnosed with osteoarthritis of the hip, which she also reported as painless, and had her hip replaced, again taking only acetaminophen on the day of and after her surgery. She had a long history of other painless injuries and operations for which she never needed painkillers. So Srivastava referred her to pain geneticists in England at University College London and the University of Oxford.
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They make her condition sound wonderful but in reality it's horrible. You have to check, visually every day for nicks, cuts or any wound. People with this condition many times die from something that if they felt pain, they would have noticed and sought treatment.
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It is horrible, but at the same time, studying it may, as indicated in the article, may offer a great deal of insight into our genes and into future painkiller developments. Similar to how that man in the 1800s who miraculously survived having a railroad spike driven through him (his head I think) led to a number of medical developments.
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Actually, the device punched through the man's skull was a "tamping bar" - a 3.5' long, 1.25" diameter, 13-pound steel bar used to tamp black powder into blast holes. Guess what happened?.
[World Tribune] The star of the new pro-life movie "Unplanned" said she hopes the film will start a much-needed conversation in America about abortion.
"This is something we desperately need to talk about," Ashley Bratcher said in a March 25 interview with The Daily Signal. "I heard one of the Georgia House of representatives say last week that abortion is so outside the scope of polite conversation that we can’t even bear to look at it. We can’t even come face to face with the ripping apart of a human being.
"He’s right. We have to face this as a society, we have to talk about it. We have to acknowledge it. Because if we don’t, we’re turning a blind eye and nothing is happening to move this forward and progress."
Bratcher portrays Abby Johnson in "Unplanned". Johnson was a Planned Parenthood clinic director who said she left then nation’s largest abortion provider in 2009 after watching an abortion on ultrasound.
"Unplanned" is set for release in U.S. theaters on March 29.
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Unfortunately, this assumes 2 things that are not necessarily true:
1) Pro-Choice absolutists have a heart (demonstrably untrue, look at the "kill them after they are born" statements).
2) Pro-Choice absolutists have a mind. Demonstrably false - just engage one with the following basic scientific facts and a fundamental secular moral truth:
Moral Dictum: Human lives have value and no innocent defenseless human should be not be deliberately sacrificed for the profit of someone else. Our laws reflect this.
1) The unborn child (or fetus if you prefer): It meets the biological definition of life. Simple science. Is it alive? YES.
2) DNA dictates that is is a HUMAN life. Is it Human? YES.
3) While in womb, it is incapable of deliberate forethought to harm another human beings - our secular laws even dictate that below a given age and development, a person is incapable of consent, and also incapable of moral choice. Is it INNOCENT? YES.
Do The Math. Elective abortion deliberately destroys an innocent human life for the PROFIT of someone else- the abortionists, the so-called mother, and the abortion industry (Planned Parenthood notably).
No religion involved. Purely science, rational though, and basic morality upon which just societies have long been founded.
Pro-Aborts cannot refute this. They can only obfuscate, lie, distort or appeal to emotions.
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Thinks a mystified mither, "Well, gee...
'Tisn't him, to be sure, and not me.
If it isn't us either,
What sort of a craythur
At all might this thingummy be?"
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[The Hill] A federal judge struck down President Trump's rules governing association health plans (AHPs) on Thursday, Bloomberg News reported.
Judge John Bates at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia blocked the rules which would allow small businesses and individuals to band together to create group health plans.
Bates in his ruling called it a clear effort to avoid following the rules of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
"The final rule is clearly an end-run around the ACA," Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, said in the ruling, according to Bloomberg.
"Indeed, as the president directed, and the Secretary of Labor confirmed, the final rule was designed to expand access to AHPs in order to avoid the most stringent requirements of the ACA," he added.
The legal challenge against AHPs was brought by nearly a dozen Democratic state attorneys general. Emphasis added.
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Banning together, forming consumer groups and coops in order to save money and provide better service is a treasonous proletariat affront to the state. The government will provide effective health care. You'll see.
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Strike down the ACA. Without the "Tax" it is no longer constitutional, and it has a Non-Severability clause. This asshat imperial judge and his opinion will soon be rendered moot.
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
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North Korea
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[The Hill] A federal judge struck down President Trump's rules governing association health plans (AHPs) on Thursday, Bloomberg News reported.
