The latest development in the saga of South Africa's racially motivated land thefts is a measure that would keep victims on the hook for loans taken out for the properties stolen from them (archived). This move comes after the IMF ended August saying they are cool with whatever South Africa does as long as they do it in a "rules based" manner (archived).
Chinese Billionaire Richard Liu Arrested And Released In Minnesota Over Vague Sex Allegations
Richard Liu, founder and CEO of JD.com and student in the University of Minnesota's doctor of business administration program, was arrested and released pending complaint by the Hennepin county sheriff's office due to "suspicion of criminal sexual misconduct" (archived). Liu lives in China and studies through a partnership between the University of Minnesota and Tsinghua University in Beijing, and he was in Minnesota with other students in his program.
Saudis Advertise Plan To Physically Isolate Qatar With Canal And Nuclear Waste
Members of the House of Saud are floating a plan to separate Qatar from Arabia by constructing a canal near Qatar's border and then converting the space between the water and Qatar's border into a nuclear waste dump (archived). The United Arab Emirates has similarly whispered about the possibility of making a nuclear waste dump along their border with Qatar as well.
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USG Lawyer Changes Story In Appellate Trial, 7 Years After Case Started Working Through Courts
A lawyer representing the criminal organization calling itself the United States Government decided this week to newly assert that they "intercepted conversations abroad" that the fellow was having in a case that has already been working its way through courts for seven years (archived). During this time Agron Hasbajrami and his lawyers have been arguing that the USG conducted an illegal "backdoor search" to acquire a warrant, something the USG's counsel is now all but admitting to except with a sprinkle of magic foreign surveillance pixie dust.
Like the Ulbricht affair, like the FBI training 'terrorists' to give themselves wins in the press, and like the spurious attachement of imaginary 'money laundering' charges to any case offering them a chance to steal a bit of it… The USG can't be trusted to play by its own rulebook though it would be happy to throw it at you. And if really backed into a corner in its own courts, nothing is more reliable than the criminal cartel pleaing "Muh Foreign Policy!" and "Muh National Security!"
New York 'Jewtropolis' Name Live On SnapChat, Zillow, Other Sites Briefly
Mapbox fed data rightfully labeling New York City 'Jewtropolis' to a number of online services including teen sexting app Snapchat and real estate advertising platform Zillow (archived). Mapbox takes crowdsourced and public mapping data then repackages it as a subscription service for internet services that don't mind New York occasionally being called 'Jewtropolis'.
Path To Intel Management Engine JTAG Discovered
Two gentlement associated with a firm calling itself "Positive Technologies" have documented a manner for acquiring JTAG access to the "Intel Management Engine" on a machine running an 'Apollo Lake' family Intel Celeron (archived). Their recipe involves creating a special debug mode dongle of the sort used for opening up other consumer devices. This has been a very rough year for Intel's marketing wank.
California Ends Cash Bail Consigning All To Merciless Rubric
California governor Jerry Brown ended today by signing a law which would end the practice of cash bail for arrested persons in California. Instead localities in California will be burdened with establishing agencies responsible for producing "risk assessments" and depending on the outcomes of the assesments, those committees would produce potential non-monetary conditions of release for "low-risk" offenders. Whether the accused has skin to put in the game and bet on their innocence with bail, California has chosen instead to surrender to tyrany of the community.
Paraguay National Police Find 42 Battle Rifles Swapped For Replicas
The National Police in Paraguay are reporting that 42 FN FAL battle rifles in their armory have been swapped for replicas (archived). During the Cold War the FN FAL was referred to as the "the right arm of the Free World" despite during that period having largely been used by colonial powers in efforts to impose their will on smaller groups that said "no". Firing a full power 7.62 mm cartridge the FN FAL enjoys a far greater effective range than the small bore reduced power arms branded "assault rifles" now favored by major state actors. At present the FN FAL is used in some role by non-state actors in every ongoing conflict with bleeding casualties that matters.
The replicas are reportedly made of wood.
USG Butthurt China Won't Share Samples Of H7N9 Flu Virus
Today the ongoing discontent of the criminal organization known as the United States Government over China's refusal to share samples H7N9 strain flu viruses frothed up in pantsuit publications (archived). H7N9 is an avian flu strain seen in 2013, and as with other avain strains there have been some number of homo sapiens that have fallen ill from the virus.
China's reluctance to share is understandable considering that shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States a weaponized strain of anthrax cultivated by the United States Government was deployed in a manner that intentionally incited further terror within the United States itself. Trusting that same criminal organization which either negligently or complicitly allowed its bioweapons to be deployed in anger on its own soil with a potentially much more virulent pathogen would be simply irresponsible.