Artist Who Smashed Ai Weiwei Vase Thought He Was Breaking a Home Depot Pot

A Florida artist is looking at up to five years in prison after smashing what he thought was a cheap pot at the Pérez Art Museum Miami but that turned out to be a $1 million vase from the Han Dynasty, displayed in the museum as part of an exhibit curated by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.

Maximo Caminero, a Miami painter, smashed the pot Monday to protest what he called the museum’s focus on international artists at the expense of local talent. He said he was mimicking a triptych displayed in the exhibition of Ai dropping a similar vase.

But Caminero later said he had no idea that he’d picked up a priceless artifact, one of several that had been painted by Ai for the exhibit. “I thought it was a common clay pot like you would find at Home Depot, frankly,” Caminero, said. “I didn’t know it was that amount. I feel so sorry about it, for sure.”

“The argument does not support the act,” Ai told the New York Times, though he didn’t sound overly upset about the breakage. “It doesn’t sound right. His argument doesn’t make much sense. If he really had a point, he should choose another way, because this will bring him trouble to destroy property that does not belong to him.”

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Man Yells ‘I Love Jesus Christ’ While Breaking Into Cop Car with Darth Vader Watching

There is nothing that isn’t completely crazy about this story. A man was arrested on Tuesday after breaking into an LAPD car and taking a laptop from it. Now, that sounds fairly standard, except for three things: 1) the entire incident was caught on camera by a local news photographer, 2) the man in question was shouting about Jesus, and 3) one of the witnesses was Darth Vader.

Yes, this individual utilizes two large metal construction stakes to smash the windows of a police vehicle. As he did so, he cried, “I love Jesus Christ!” He reached into the car, pulled out the laptop, and walked away. The whole thing was caught on camera, and the camera also picked up the fact that Darth Vader was one of the key witnesses.

Police arrived on the scene within minutes, and they soon learned it wasn’t just Darth Vader who saw what happened, Superman was on the scene too. He said, “It’s not my job to jump in the middle.” Yeah, sure, Superman.

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Pakistan: Taliban demand Sharia, release of all jailed jihadis, breaking of all ties with U.S.

That part about breaking all relations with the U.S. sounds great. Let the Pakistanis finance their own jihad. Note again that they want Sharia, despite being universally portrayed in the West as opportunistic hijackers of Islam who use Islamic language to mask their true secular agenda. The Taliban also want an end to all drone attacks in other words, they want the last remaining counter-terror efforts ended, and al Qaeda allowed to operate unhindered.
“Taliban want Islamic system of governance in Pak: Reports,” from PTI, February 9:
ISLAMABAD: An Islamic system of governance, introduction of Shariah law and release of jailed militants are part of a 15-point agenda finalized by the Taliban for peace talks with the Pakistan government, according to media reports on Sunday.
The Taliban ‘Shura’ or council, which has been meeting in the restive northwest since yesterday under its deputy chief Sheikh Khalid Haqqani, also demanded the withdrawal of the army from tribal areas, said a report on the website of the Dawn daily.
Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ibrahim Khan and Jamiat Ulema-e- Islam-S leader Yousuf Shah, members of the Taliban-nominated committee, are in Waziristan for a meeting with the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan. They are likely to convey the Taliban’s demands to state negotiators, the report said.
The Taliban’s 15-point agenda was also reported by Dunya News channel. However, Geo News reported that the Taliban’s demands included release of militants, withdrawal of the army from insurgency-hit areas and compensation to people affected by violence.
The reports about the 15-point agenda could not be independently confirmed.
According to the report on Dawn’s website, the agenda includes introduction of Shariah law in courts, halting US drone attacks and introduction of an Islamic system of education in public and private institutions.
Other demands include release of Pakistani Taliban and foreign fighters from jail, restoration and compensation for property damaged in drone attacks, handing over control of tribal areas to local forces, withdrawal of the army from tribal areas and shutting down of check posts.
The report said the agenda also states all criminal allegations against the Taliban should be dropped and prisoners from both sides released.
“Equal rights for all, poor and rich, families of drone attack victims to be offered jobs, end interest-based system, stop supporting the US in the war on terror, replace the democratic system of governance with the Islamic system and stop all relations with the US,” the report quoted the agenda as saying.

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