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"hey so uh I know the family I'm stalking lives in utah and i'm in hawaii but i wanna be detained in utah"
how is this legal? he's clearly got ulterior motives to try and kill her or something.
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They already wanted to extradite him, he just didn't oppose it. Maybe because it would be a waste of time, maybe because he doesn't even have a lawyer and would rather just get a public defender there. He's guilty as fuck so he's going to be doing some time anyway, hardly matters where.
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According to the article it wasn't random, so I'm wondering if he's a salty ex boyfriend. He's clearly a sociopath given he gives zero fucks about wasting other peoples' time to harass someone else. Also this was covered in the Japan Times which makes me curious if he's a first-gen immigrant.
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Joint drills of China, Russia, South Africa aimed to ensure stability — spokesperson
Russia is represented by a naval group headed by the missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov at the drills
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Joint drills of China, Russia, South Africa aimed to ensure stability — spokesperson
Russia is represented by a naval group headed by the missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov at the drills
© Marshal Ustinov missile cruiser
BEIJING, November 28. /TASS/. The joint drills of the Chinese, Russian and South African Navy demonstrate the countries’ willingness to cooperate to ensure stability, Spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of National Defense Senior Colonel Ren Guoqiang said during the briefing on Thursday.
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Drills involving Russian, Chinese and South African ships kick off in Cape Town
"These navy drills are the first event of this kind for the countries’ naval forces. These drills are of very high importance, as they facilitate the expansion of cooperation and partnership, play a key role in raising the military potential and demonstrate the willingness of the states to support peace and stability at sea and in the region," the spokesperson informed.
He added that the main aim of the joint maneuvers is to work on the skills related to "ensuring navigation security and improving threat response."
About the maneuvers
The joint drills of the Russian, Chinese and South African Navy run in the territorial waters of South Africa from November 24 to November 30. Russia is represented by a naval group headed by the missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov. The group also includes the medium sea tanker Vyazma and the SB-406 rescue tugboat. South Africa’s SAS Amatola frigate and SAS Drakensberg replenishment tanker and China’s Weifang guided-missile frigate are taking part in the drills. The exercise is code-named "Mosi," which means "smoke" in one of South Africa’s state languages, Sesotho.
The Cape of Good Hope and the nearby city of Cape Town are located in a key part of the world where two oceans meet — the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean. The most important naval and trade routes of Europe, Africa and Asia pass through the area.
The current drill of the three countries is of the highest priority for its participants. Earlier, there were plans to carry out naval drills between South Africa and France and then Germany in the Cape of Good Hope area. However, they were rescheduled for next year, and the schedule for both drills has not been coordinated yet.
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Nah, The Japan Times is just a rag that will report on anything.
Who the fuck would even immigrate from Japan to Hawaii since the last 100 years? An autistic nut like this guy, I suppose.
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The Japanese seem to have a bit of a fetish for Hawaii. It's THE dream destination for weddings, and there's a lot of Japanese friendly shops there. I remember seeing shooting ranges where you could fire full automatics that had the English letters almost subdued compared to the huge bright Japanese lettering. They are very, very common in Hawaii.
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Well there's a lot of history of Japanese farmers, laborers and some of the buildings were designed like Japanese apartments. And it's the home of late Japanese sympathizer/Demolition member/DOA member/KroniK member Crush:
Man that song says a lot about Hawaii
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It started when Suntory did a sweepstakes to win a holiday to Hawaii in the 1950s. Vacationing there is one thing, but living...
Hence why I said within the last 100 years.
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Some real food for thought here. You've seen my various observations about China's problems, and this seems to follow right along.
The Broken China Model
Column: A weak and unstable China is also more dangerous
Police arrest anti-government protesters at Hong Kong Polytechnic University / Getty Images
Matthew Continetti - NOVEMBER 29, 2019 5:00 AM
You see it in the maps. In 2015, 1.4 million Hong Kongers voted in elections in which pro-Beijing candidates swept the city's 18 district councils. Last week, 2.9 million Hong Kongers voted and pro-democracy candidates won every district but one. That is an increase in turnout of more than 100 percent and a stunning rebuke both of Beijing and of chief executive Carrie Lam, who has failed to respond adequately to the demands of the pro-democracy movement that has disrupted Hong Kong for the past six months. Maps of the city once shaded pro-mainland blue are now pro-liberty yellow.
Yes, the vote was symbolic. The councils have little say in the operations of government. But symbols matter. For Hong Kongers to express discontent with their rulers through one of the last vehicles for accountability is no trifle. Beijing was surprised. It had counted on a supposed "silent majority" of voters tired of the upheaval and violence to legitimize the mainland's authority. That was a mistake. The prefabricated copy that Communist propagandists had been ready to spread was abandoned. "The problem is that under the increasingly paranoid regime of Xi Jinping, even these internal reports have become much more geared toward what the leadership wants to hear," writes James Palmer, who a decade ago worked for the pro-China Global Times.
Hong Kong is the most visible reminder of the tenuous nature of Communist rule. The city has become a postmodern battleground where masked protesters wield social media and lasers to avoid armor-clad police and facial recognition technology powered by artificial intelligence. When one looks at Hong Kong one sees a possible future where champions of freedom the world over employ desperate measures against the overwhelming resources of a mechanized Leviathan. One also sees the brittleness, confusion, and embarrassment of despotism when challenged by subjects assumed to be grateful for growth and security and immune to the will to freedom.
What is happening in Hong Kong is not isolated. The China model of authoritarian development is damaged and scarred. What seemed as sturdy and invulnerable as a Borg Cube looks more like a fragile and wobbly mobile by Alexander Calder. The regime of Xi Jinping is under economic and political and diplomatic pressure that it is not handling well. This beleaguered combatant in an era of great power competition is more dangerous to the United States than before.
What legitimacy the Communist Party possessed was based on the decades of economic growth inaugurated by Deng Xiaoping in 1978. But growth has slowed to its lowest level in decades as the Chinese workforce ages, low-hanging investment opportunities disappear, and the trade war with the United States reduces manufacturing output and sends supply lines to Vietnam and Mexico. Capital is fleeing China at a record pace as the bourgeoisie hedge against stagnation and turmoil.
For all of the Chinese government's much publicized investments in research and development and defense, and despite the size of its economy, per capita gross domestic product is $10,000, slightly less than that of the Russia Federation ($11,000) and a fraction of that of the United States ($65,000). Recent weeks have brought an uptick in bank runs. The government's response to slowdown has been to tighten state control. "Between 2012 and 2018, assets of state companies grew at more than 15 percent annually, well over twice the pace of expansion of China's GDP and double the pace of growth of gross domestic capital formation," writes Nicholas R. Lardy of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. This is not state capitalism. It's statism.
The Chinese authorities use mechanisms of repression to maintain control over what can only be described as an internal empire. The New York Times recently published a horrifying and damning trove of documents relating the extent of Beijing's efforts to detain, imprison, intimidate, and reeducate Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other minorities in western Xinjiang Province. China wants to override the Dalai Lama's choice of successor in its continuing efforts to police Tibetan Buddhism and aspirations to sovereignty. China leads the world in the number of political prisoners, its Great Firewall has become more difficult to penetrate, and its influence operations in Taiwan, Australia, and other democracies more sophisticated. Defector Wang Liqiang has told Australian officials of his personal involvement in the disappearance of five Hong Kong booksellers who had the temerity to advocate democracy.
These are not the moves of a regime confident in its ability to win the allegiance of a multi-ethnic population of 1.4 billion people. They are the policies of an insular and jittery faction whose uncertainty toward a changing economic and demographic landscape has made it suspicious of and opposed to even the slightest hints of liberal democracy. The ambitions of Chairman Xi for a Eurasia integrated under the Belt and Road Initiative, where the preponderance of the latest equipment in key sectors is manufactured, are both grand and mismatched for a nation whose leaders are concerned most with the operation of the surveillance state that keeps them in power.
The resistance to Beijing is both domestic and foreign. Lost in all the predictions of Chinese dominance were the voices of China's neighbors in the Pacific. Neither Japan, nor Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philippines, nor Australia want to live in a Chinese lake. Most extraordinary has been the response of the United States. Within four years, the American elite has swapped its belief in China's "peaceful rise" for the recognition that it may be in the opening phase of a Second Cold War whose outcome will determine the ideological character of the 21st century. While Tariff Man wages his trade war, opposing Chinese theft of intellectual property and arguing for structural changes to China's state owned enterprises, Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper speak of the political and security challenges presented by Chinese authoritarians who become more willing to lash out as they lose their grip.
Senator Josh Hawley spoke for the emerging consensus when he wrote in the November 24 Wall Street Journal: "And everywhere, in every region, we must ask whether our actions are contributing to the great task of this era, resisting hegemony in the Asia-Pacific." A few days before Hawley's op-ed, Congress passed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019. Though the president already may possess the authorities to sanction Chinese officials granted him by Congress, the bill remains both a powerful statement of American support for the principles of liberty and democracy and a sign of American resolution before the specter of autocracy.
Good for President Trump to have signed the Democracy Act—and better still if he would link human rights to trade and refrain from speaking of his "friend," the "incredible guy" who seeks nothing less than the defeat and displacement of the United States.
The Broken China Model
You see it in the maps. In 2015, 1.4 million Hong Kongers voted in elections in which pro-Beijing candidates swept the city's 18 district councils. Last week, 2.9 million Hong Kongers voted and pro-democracy candidates won every district but one.
freebeacon.com
The Broken China Model
Column: A weak and unstable China is also more dangerous
Police arrest anti-government protesters at Hong Kong Polytechnic University / Getty Images
Matthew Continetti - NOVEMBER 29, 2019 5:00 AM
You see it in the maps. In 2015, 1.4 million Hong Kongers voted in elections in which pro-Beijing candidates swept the city's 18 district councils. Last week, 2.9 million Hong Kongers voted and pro-democracy candidates won every district but one. That is an increase in turnout of more than 100 percent and a stunning rebuke both of Beijing and of chief executive Carrie Lam, who has failed to respond adequately to the demands of the pro-democracy movement that has disrupted Hong Kong for the past six months. Maps of the city once shaded pro-mainland blue are now pro-liberty yellow.
Yes, the vote was symbolic. The councils have little say in the operations of government. But symbols matter. For Hong Kongers to express discontent with their rulers through one of the last vehicles for accountability is no trifle. Beijing was surprised. It had counted on a supposed "silent majority" of voters tired of the upheaval and violence to legitimize the mainland's authority. That was a mistake. The prefabricated copy that Communist propagandists had been ready to spread was abandoned. "The problem is that under the increasingly paranoid regime of Xi Jinping, even these internal reports have become much more geared toward what the leadership wants to hear," writes James Palmer, who a decade ago worked for the pro-China Global Times.
Hong Kong is the most visible reminder of the tenuous nature of Communist rule. The city has become a postmodern battleground where masked protesters wield social media and lasers to avoid armor-clad police and facial recognition technology powered by artificial intelligence. When one looks at Hong Kong one sees a possible future where champions of freedom the world over employ desperate measures against the overwhelming resources of a mechanized Leviathan. One also sees the brittleness, confusion, and embarrassment of despotism when challenged by subjects assumed to be grateful for growth and security and immune to the will to freedom.
What is happening in Hong Kong is not isolated. The China model of authoritarian development is damaged and scarred. What seemed as sturdy and invulnerable as a Borg Cube looks more like a fragile and wobbly mobile by Alexander Calder. The regime of Xi Jinping is under economic and political and diplomatic pressure that it is not handling well. This beleaguered combatant in an era of great power competition is more dangerous to the United States than before.
What legitimacy the Communist Party possessed was based on the decades of economic growth inaugurated by Deng Xiaoping in 1978. But growth has slowed to its lowest level in decades as the Chinese workforce ages, low-hanging investment opportunities disappear, and the trade war with the United States reduces manufacturing output and sends supply lines to Vietnam and Mexico. Capital is fleeing China at a record pace as the bourgeoisie hedge against stagnation and turmoil.
For all of the Chinese government's much publicized investments in research and development and defense, and despite the size of its economy, per capita gross domestic product is $10,000, slightly less than that of the Russia Federation ($11,000) and a fraction of that of the United States ($65,000). Recent weeks have brought an uptick in bank runs. The government's response to slowdown has been to tighten state control. "Between 2012 and 2018, assets of state companies grew at more than 15 percent annually, well over twice the pace of expansion of China's GDP and double the pace of growth of gross domestic capital formation," writes Nicholas R. Lardy of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. This is not state capitalism. It's statism.
The Chinese authorities use mechanisms of repression to maintain control over what can only be described as an internal empire. The New York Times recently published a horrifying and damning trove of documents relating the extent of Beijing's efforts to detain, imprison, intimidate, and reeducate Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other minorities in western Xinjiang Province. China wants to override the Dalai Lama's choice of successor in its continuing efforts to police Tibetan Buddhism and aspirations to sovereignty. China leads the world in the number of political prisoners, its Great Firewall has become more difficult to penetrate, and its influence operations in Taiwan, Australia, and other democracies more sophisticated. Defector Wang Liqiang has told Australian officials of his personal involvement in the disappearance of five Hong Kong booksellers who had the temerity to advocate democracy.
These are not the moves of a regime confident in its ability to win the allegiance of a multi-ethnic population of 1.4 billion people. They are the policies of an insular and jittery faction whose uncertainty toward a changing economic and demographic landscape has made it suspicious of and opposed to even the slightest hints of liberal democracy. The ambitions of Chairman Xi for a Eurasia integrated under the Belt and Road Initiative, where the preponderance of the latest equipment in key sectors is manufactured, are both grand and mismatched for a nation whose leaders are concerned most with the operation of the surveillance state that keeps them in power.
The resistance to Beijing is both domestic and foreign. Lost in all the predictions of Chinese dominance were the voices of China's neighbors in the Pacific. Neither Japan, nor Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philippines, nor Australia want to live in a Chinese lake. Most extraordinary has been the response of the United States. Within four years, the American elite has swapped its belief in China's "peaceful rise" for the recognition that it may be in the opening phase of a Second Cold War whose outcome will determine the ideological character of the 21st century. While Tariff Man wages his trade war, opposing Chinese theft of intellectual property and arguing for structural changes to China's state owned enterprises, Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper speak of the political and security challenges presented by Chinese authoritarians who become more willing to lash out as they lose their grip.
Senator Josh Hawley spoke for the emerging consensus when he wrote in the November 24 Wall Street Journal: "And everywhere, in every region, we must ask whether our actions are contributing to the great task of this era, resisting hegemony in the Asia-Pacific." A few days before Hawley's op-ed, Congress passed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019. Though the president already may possess the authorities to sanction Chinese officials granted him by Congress, the bill remains both a powerful statement of American support for the principles of liberty and democracy and a sign of American resolution before the specter of autocracy.
Good for President Trump to have signed the Democracy Act—and better still if he would link human rights to trade and refrain from speaking of his "friend," the "incredible guy" who seeks nothing less than the defeat and displacement of the United States.
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Hoes mad.
Kim Petras offers perfect response to Westboro Baptist Church plans to picket her show
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Kim Petras offers perfect response to Westboro Baptist Church plans to picket her show
Kim Petras offers perfect response to Westboro Baptist Church picket plan
Kim Petras has responded on social media after the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) announced plans to picket her show in Kansas City today (December 1)
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So the victim willingly went to Hawaii with the guy on two separate occasions?
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Mark Ruffalo calls for an 'economic revolution' because capitalism is 'failing us, killing us and robbing from our children's future'
PUBLISHED: 21:56 GMT, 2 December 2019 | UPDATED: 22:36 GMT, 2 December 2019
Mark Ruffalo said on Twitter that the United States needs an 'economic revolution'.
The actor, who recently starred in Dark Waters as the lawyer who took on DuPont, made the statement while retweeting a November 21 op-ed from Time, called How America's Elites Lost Their Grip.
'It's time for an economic revolution. Capitalism today is failing us, killing us, and robbing from our children’s future,' Ruffalo, 52, tweeted.
'It's time for an economic revolution. Capitalism today is failing us, killing us, and robbing from our children’s future,' Ruffalo, 52, tweeted
Ruffalo, who has in the past showed up to rallies to speak about his anti-fracking stance and campaigns for Bernie Sanders, pointed to the article to back up his statements.
In the piece, writer Anand Giridharadas, credits Sanders and Elizabeth Warren for calling out capitalism and presenting ways in which the US could actually remove it from the economy.
Last month, Ruffalo, who has been and outspoken critic about America’s economy, spoke about his views of the Democratic presidential candidates during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Colbert asked Ruffalo which candidate he liked, to which the actor responded: 'First of all I want to preface this by saying I'm very excited by the Democratic brand altogether.
'But for me I started with Bernie on this trip in 2016 and when I think about it what I see is he led and he led then, and now he's leading now.
'The rest of the United States is just finally caught up to what this cat's been doing already for his entire career. And you know that when he gets into office, he is going to be fighting for us.'
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He's been ratio'd hard on Twitter. The thread is full of comedy gold.
- Mark Ruffalo said on Twitter that United States needs an 'economic revolution'
- He also included a link to an op-ed called How America's Elites Lost Their Grip
- It comes less than a month after Ruffalo expressed that he is once again rooting for Bernie Sanders to win the Democratic nomination to run for president
PUBLISHED: 21:56 GMT, 2 December 2019 | UPDATED: 22:36 GMT, 2 December 2019
Mark Ruffalo said on Twitter that the United States needs an 'economic revolution'.
The actor, who recently starred in Dark Waters as the lawyer who took on DuPont, made the statement while retweeting a November 21 op-ed from Time, called How America's Elites Lost Their Grip.
'It's time for an economic revolution. Capitalism today is failing us, killing us, and robbing from our children’s future,' Ruffalo, 52, tweeted.
'It's time for an economic revolution. Capitalism today is failing us, killing us, and robbing from our children’s future,' Ruffalo, 52, tweeted
Ruffalo, who has in the past showed up to rallies to speak about his anti-fracking stance and campaigns for Bernie Sanders, pointed to the article to back up his statements.
In the piece, writer Anand Giridharadas, credits Sanders and Elizabeth Warren for calling out capitalism and presenting ways in which the US could actually remove it from the economy.
Last month, Ruffalo, who has been and outspoken critic about America’s economy, spoke about his views of the Democratic presidential candidates during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Colbert asked Ruffalo which candidate he liked, to which the actor responded: 'First of all I want to preface this by saying I'm very excited by the Democratic brand altogether.
'But for me I started with Bernie on this trip in 2016 and when I think about it what I see is he led and he led then, and now he's leading now.
'The rest of the United States is just finally caught up to what this cat's been doing already for his entire career. And you know that when he gets into office, he is going to be fighting for us.'
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He's been ratio'd hard on Twitter. The thread is full of comedy gold.
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No, the real reason the economy is shit is due to the 'Me Generation'
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What is it with actors, and thinking people actually give a shit what they think?
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The same egomania and self-indulgence that drove them to become actors in the first place.
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Let’s start with him then. 
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I always assumed that reason why was usually a mixture of massive, deep seeded insecurities and a general inability to do anything useful.
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