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rpannier's Journal45 years after college student from Georgia vanished, car with remains found in Alabama creek
For 45 years, no one could say for certain what happened to Kyle Clinkscales.
The 22-year-old Auburn University student vanished on a cold January night in 1976 after leaving his bartending job in LaGrange to make the 35-mile drive back to campus. He never made it.
Nearly 30 years later, investigators made two arrests after a tipster came forward with information about Clinkscales’ killing. The man suspected of murder, Ray Hyde, had died years earlier. Another man, Jimmy Earl Jones, was later convicted of making false statements to police.
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Troup County investigators speculated that Hyde, who died in July 2001, killed Clinkscales because he feared the student may have learned of Hyde’s role in hiding stolen cars, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported. Six months after Clinkscales’ disappearance, Hyde was arrested on numerous auto theft charges and was later sent to prison.
https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/45-years-after-college-student-from-georgia-vanished-car-with-remains-found-in-alabama-creek/AGXJOP4CFRBAVKU33MD6ISOVWE/
'Modern girls': Japan's first recognizable youth culture movement
The period of relative prosperity that Japan enjoyed in the mid- to late 1920s gave rise to the country’s first recognizable youth culture.
However, this new cultural phenomenon wasn’t spearheaded by young men in Japan at that time. Instead, “modern girls” (modan gāru, or moga for short) were the talk of the town, sauntering down the streets of Tokyo in neat bob cuts and wearing chic dresses and heeled shoes.
These women were Japan’s equivalent of flappers in the United States or garconnes in France, abandoning traditional kimonos and conservative societal values to embrace Western fashion and lifestyle.
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The 1920s also marked the growth of a small but significant group of urban Japanese who eventually formed a new middle class. This new set of bourgeoisie were a collective of university-educated, salaried employees of corporations and government ministries and their families.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2021/12/06/lifestyle/japan-modern-girls/
Three Years Late, Israelis Finally Hear the Truth About Trump
When Donald Trump decided to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal in May 2018, Israel’s then-prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, turned the decision into a political celebration. Israeli media outlets received detailed briefings on how a daring Mossad operation to steal Iran’s “nuclear archive” from a secure location in the Islamic Republic was the final straw that convinced Trump to break the international agreement.
That sense of pride was missing last week, when former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen, the man who commanded that operation, spoke at the Haaretz-UCLA conference on Israeli national security. Cohen was asked about the fact that ever since Trump got out of the deal, Iran has significantly increased its uranium enrichment. “That’s true,” he replied.
Another speaker at the same conference was former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, who strongly opposed the nuclear deal at the time of its signing, when he was still in office. Yet in an interview with Haaretz analyst Anshel Pfeffer, Ya’alon said that as bad as that deal was, Trump’s decision to withdraw from it – with Netanyahu’s encouragement – was even worse. He called it “the main mistake of the last decade” in Iran policy.
Two days later, former IDF Chief of Staff Lt. General (ret.) Gadi Eisenkot, brought a similar message to the Security and Policy conference in the Reichman University in Herzliya. The American withdrawal from the deal, said the man who commanded the Israeli military when it happened, was a net negative for Israel: It released Iran from all restrictions, and brought its nuclear program to a much more advanced position.
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-netanyahu-mossad-years-late-israel-hear-truth-trump-iran-1.10416718
Iraqi jihadist handed life sentence for Yazidi genocide
Source: euronews.com
An Iraqi from the Islamic State jihadist group was sentenced by a German court for genocide over the murder of Yazidis.
The Frankfurt court judges found Taha Al-Jumailly "guilty of genocide, of a crime against humanity resulting in death".
This is the first time that a court has ruled that the atrocities committed against the Yazidis amount to genocide, already recognised as such by UN investigators.
Prosecutors said the former IS member and his wife enslaved a Yazidi girl and her mother in Iraq. He then left the young girl chained in the open sun where he let her die of heat and malnourishment.
Read more: https://www.euronews.com/2021/11/30/iraqi-jihadist-handed-life-sentence-for-yazidi-genocide
As China menaces Taiwan, the island's friends aid its secretive submarine project
For more than two decades, Taiwan tried to buy a fleet of modern conventional submarines to fend off an existential threat — invasion by China. There were no takers.
The United States, Taiwan’s main ally, has a nuclear-powered fleet and hadn’t built diesel-powered subs in decades. Other nations balked, fearful of angering Beijing.
Now, as China under President Xi Jinping steps up its military intimidation of Taiwan, an array of foreign submarine-technology vendors, with the approval of their governments, are aiding a secretive program to build subs in Taiwan. Taipei has stealthily sourced technology, components and talent from at least seven nations to help it build an underwater fleet with the potential to exact a heavy toll on any Chinese attack, a Reuters investigation has found.
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Taipei has also succeeded in hiring engineers, technicians and former naval officers from at least five other countries: Australia, South Korea, India, Spain and Canada. Based at a shipyard in the port city of Kaohsiung, the experts have advised the Taiwanese Navy and state-backed shipbuilder CSBC Corporation Taiwan, the company building the new submarines.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/11/30/asia-pacific/taiwan-allies-submarine-project/
Boy, 14, charged with murder of Ava White in Liverpool
A teenager has been charged with the murder of a 12-year-old girl in Liverpool city centre, police have said.
Ava White had been in the city with friends on Thursday after the switching on of Christmas lights when she suffered “catastrophic injuries” in an assault at 8.39pm, Merseyside police said.
A 14-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has now been charged with murder and possession of a bladed article.
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Ava, who has been described as popular and bright, was involved in a “verbal argument” which escalated into an “assault on her with a knife”, police said.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/28/boy-14-charged-with-of-ava-white-in-liverpool
3 other boys are on conditional bail over the attack
The $5 billion hoard of metal the world wants but can't have
On an industrial park about an hour’s drive toward the South China Sea coast from Ho Chi Minh City sit giant mounds of raw metal shrouded in black tarpaulin. Stretching a kilometer in length, the much-coveted hoard could be worth about $5 billion at current prices.
In the esoteric world of aluminum, those in the know say the stockpile in Vietnam is the biggest they have ever seen — and that’s in an industry that spends a lot of time building stockpiles while analysts spend a lot of time trying to locate them. But as far as the increasingly under-supplied market is concerned, it’s one that may never be seen again.
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While there used to be millions of tons of aluminum at ports from Detroit and New Orleans in the U.S. to Rotterdam in Europe and Malaysia’s Port Klang, market watchers say the stockpile 50 kilometers from Vietnam’s biggest city is likely the only notable one left.
To put it in perspective, it’s equivalent to the entire annual consumption of India, the world’s second-most populous country, said Duncan Hobbs, a London-based analyst at commodities trader Concord Resources who has been covering metals markets for 25 years.
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The hoard was seized as part of a U.S.-led anti-dumping investigation in 2019 focusing on a Chinese billionaire. The Vietnamese authorities say it was accumulated from China by Global Vietnam Aluminium Ltd., known as GVA. They haven’t concluded their investigation, though the initial probe into GVA was dropped because of a lack of evidence.
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The blistering rally in prices means the value of the metal has risen more than 50% since it was impounded. If the stockpile ever started moving, the impact could be seismic. It would be more than enough to erase a global deficit that has emerged in the aluminum market this year, and a fire sale could send prices crashing.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/11/22/business/aluminum-supply-vietnam/
Former President Chun Doo-hwan dies at 90
Source: Yonhap
Former President Chun Doo-hwan, a general-turned strongman widely criticized for seizing power through a 1979 military coup and ruthlessly quelling a pro-democracy civil uprising in the southwestern city of Gwangju the following year, died Tuesday at the age of 90.
Chun died at his home in western Seoul around 8:40 a.m. after battling chronic ailments, aides said.
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The former Army general rose to power after staging a coup in the wake of the assassination of then President Park Chung-hee in 1979 and ruled the country until 1988.
One of his biggest and darkest political legacies is his deadly crackdown on the Gwangju pro-democracy civil uprising in 1980, which left more than 200 dead and 1,800 others wounded, according to conservative official data.
Read more: https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20211123002452315?section=national/politics
May he rot. He was a horrible person all the way around
Best moment after he was out of office was, while being questioned by the National Assembly for his crimes, future Korean President Roh Moo-hyun threw a nameplate at him (still a great moment in Korean history) -- too bad he missed
Nov 20, 1982 - The Play Cal vs Stanford
I was at Wash State at the time and it was the same day the Cougars beat the fuskies for the 1st time in about ever
My parents were at the Cal-Stanford game -- my father graduated Law School at Cal.
So it was a great day for the family
Today in Korea is the KSAT. Dubbed the hardest test in the world. Good luck to you all
There is no test on this planet that is more difficult and more stressful than the KSAT.
Considered the most important test any student will take in Korea, the country celebrates and goes out of its way to help on this day.
Out in front of numerous high schools, 1st and 2nd year boys will stand shirtless cheering on those taking the tests
During the Korean and English listening portions of the test no planes will land or take off anywhere in the country
Afraid you may be late to the test? Don't worry. You call the local police department and they will provide you with a driver (police officer) to get you there on time
Traffic is curtailed, redirected and halted starting an hour before the test. (One year I was sitting on a bus, not moving for almost an hour because I had forgotten it was test day)
Elementary and middle schools start their days after 10, instead of at 9.
When we lived in Korea, our elementary school did not have the kids arrive until 10:30. The school was locked up so they didn't come early to keep noisy children off the street
The test is extremely difficult.
If you think it's an exaggeration, go to the Korean Englishman and watch the videos on British high school students, University students and adults trying to take the English portion of the test. And have fun watching native English speaking Brits look confused and feel stressed about a test that has no effect on them
Our oldest graduates in 2022-3. Fortunately, we're in Japan, so she's spared the test.
Again, best of luck to all the Korean 3rd year students (Seniors) taking their College Standardized Test. Hopefully you do well.
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