Thursday, December 13, 2018
Elmo...
Even as Turkish leaders call for an international inquiry into Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khassogi's murder, the Committee to Protect Journalists found the Turkish government to be the world's biggest jailer of journalists for the third consecutive year, according to a newly released report.
According to the global press freedom watchdog's Annual Prison Census, 251 journalists are currently in jails around the world as of Dec. 1 for charges related to their work -- 68 in Turkey, 47 in China and 25 in Egypt, collectively responsible for more than half of the journalists behind bars.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been one of the harshest critics of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for his alleged role in Khassogi's killing, but following a failed coup against his government in 2016, experts said, Erdogan has engaged in a country-wide crackdown on criticism.
Comment: Some journalist are a "want a be" above the law. Some alien themselves with or support variety of groups that is outlawed, sponsor terrorists or just against the government with many fake news.
Remove...
The Democrats are doing better by staying silent. Silent about the Taxes, the Immigration, the boarders, etc. If they start talking, well...
وجه مضيء
وفرزُ النّفوس كفرزِ الصّخور ..
ففيها النّفيس وفيها الحجر
وبعضُ الأنام كبعض الشّجر ..
جميلُ القوامِ شحيحُ الثّمر
وبعضُ الوعودِ كبعض الغُيُوم ..
قويّ الرعودِ شحيحُ المطر
وكمْ من كفيفٍ بصيرِ الفؤاد ..
وكم من فؤادٍ كفيفِ البصر
وكمْ من أسيرٍ بقلبٍ طليق ..
وكم من طليقٍ كواه الضّجر
وكم من شهابٍ بعالي السّماء ..
بطرفةِ عينٍ تراه اندثر
وما كلّ وجهٍ مضيءٍ يدور ..
بعتمةِ ليلٍ يسمّى قمر
وخيرُ الكلامِ قليلُ الحروف ..
كثيرُ القطوفِ بليغُ الأثر
فقطرةُ ماءٍ مراراً تدقُّ ..
على الصَّخْر ِ حتى تشقُّ الصّخر
ولو لم تهزّ الرياحُ الزهورَ ..
لما فاحَ عطرٌ وماتَ الزَّهَر
شعر أبي العتاهية
Let this be a lesson. Just a thought.
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Plot...
With a Hollywood masterpiece, a trial began for a Florida woman accused of helping orchestrate the death of her husband in order to secure a massive insurance payout.
Mike Williams disappeared while duck hunting on a large lake west of Tallahassee.
His wife, Denise Williams, petitioned to have him declared dead due to accidental drowning. She collected 1.5 million Dolars insurance, married Winchester in December 2005, and divorced him in 2016.
Last year, Winchester pleaded no contest to kidnapping his ex-wife at gunpoint, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Winchester described his long-running affair with Denise Williams.
He had intended to drown Mike by pushing him from his canoe. But he panicked when he saw Williams struggling in the water to get out of his jacket and duck waders and so he shot him.
It never works, yet some misguided try it repeatedly.
Hide it ..
At these proceedings, they often like to remind people of their accomplishments, and why their ideas and proposals deserve special consideration.
Some will also take these opportunities to be disruptive and put others down. They like to make themselves as powerful and influential as possible.
Coercive...
Patricia Campbell Hearst (born February 20, 1954) is the granddaughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, who became internationally known for events following her 1974 kidnapping and physical violation by a domestic American terrorist group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Hearst was found nineteen months after being abducted, by which time she was a fugitive wanted for serious crimes.
On April 15, 1974, she was recorded on surveillance video wielding an M1 carbine while robbing the Sunset District branch of the Hibernia Bank at 1450 Noriega Street in San Francisco.[5] Hearst announced herself under her pseudonym of Tania.[18][19][20] Two men who entered the bank while the robbery was occurring were shot and wounded.[18][19][20] According to later testimony at her trial, a witness thought Hearst had been several paces behind the others when running to the getaway car.
United States Attorney General William B. Saxbe said Hearst said that Hearst may have been coerced into taking part. The FBI agent heading the investigation had said SLA members were photographed pointing guns at Hearst during the robbery.
In 1976 she was convicted for the crime of bank robbery and sentenced to 35 years in prison. Hearst's sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter and she was later pardoned by President Bill Clinton.
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