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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Dollar Store robbery foiled as shopper blasts robber.
[Breitbart] On November 13, an armed customer in a Mobile, AL Family Dollar store foiled a robbery by shooting "the suspect multiple times."
Skeeter be careful, he's still moving. Here, have some more....bloweee, blowee, blowee.
According to WPMI, "two employees...[at the store] were unloading a truck, when a pair of armed robbers approached them. One of the criminals forced one of the employees to the front of the store, past terrified customers, and demanded that the employee open the safe."
Obviously not all of the customers were "terrified".
At that point, a customer drew his own gun, shooting the robber "and causing his accomplice to flee." According to Local15TV, the customer shot "the suspect multiple times." A customer who was inside the store when the robbery was foiled thanked the armed citizen for intervening: "I want to say thank you, thank you, thank you, from the bottom of my heart and God bless you."
Key to the City of Mobile and ammo reimbursement pending.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/20/2013 06:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...the customer shot "the suspect multiple times.

Nice grouping in a stress situation!
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/20/2013 13:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Of course, if this had happened in some states, the armed customer would have been arrested, and the robber (or his survivors) would have sued him.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/20/2013 14:54 Comments || Top||

#3  If you've ever been in a Family Dollar Store, it should be mandatory that you are armed...
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/20/2013 15:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Looks like the accomplice was apprehended. The shooter needs some range time and an upgrade to a larger caliber.

Mobile Police have arrested the man wanted in connection with a robbery and shooting at a Family Dollar earlier this week.

Nineteen-year-old Tavoris Moss is charged with two counts of first degree robbery. Authorities say Moss and another man robbed the Family Dollar located on Stanton Road.

That other suspect, police say, was shot multiple times by a customer inside the store. He was taken to USA Medical Center and will be charged upon release.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man || 11/20/2013 18:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Since the accomplice was participating in a felony at the time of the shooting, does that mean the accomplice can be charged with the shooting also? Inquiring minds want to know!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/20/2013 19:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Apparently family members are complaining that he was shot, saying that the customer could have just left the store. Sounds like they need some jail time too.
Posted by: Silentbrick - Oil Rig Insanity Division || 11/20/2013 22:55 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
DR Congo's M23 Rebel Chief in Ugandan Army Safe House
[An Nahar] The military chief of Democratic Republic of the Congo
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
's defeated M23 rebels, Sultani Makenga, has been placed under military protection in the Ugandan capital, a Ugandan intelligence officer told Agence La Belle France Presse Tuesday.

"He is in a safe house in Kampala but for security reasons we cannot reveal the location," the officer said on condition of anonymity. He added that the Ugandan army "is providing necessary security".

Makenga is wanted by the authorities in neighboring DR Congo, and is accused of participating in several massacres, mutilations, abductions and sexual violence, sometimes against children. He is on both United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
and United States sanctions lists.

He led the mainly ethnic-Tutsi M23 force, which mutinied from the Congolese army 18 months ago. He fled to Uganda earlier in November with virtually his entire rebel force after a bruising defeat at the hands of the Congolese army, backed by U.N. forces.

Uganda's defense front man, Lieutenant-Colonel Paddy Ankunda, said the fighters who fled with Makenga had been moved to a new site at Kasese, in western Uganda and close to the DRC border.

"We have under our protection 1,320 fighters of the M23," Ankunda told AFP, adding that rebel commanders were also in the camp, not only foot soldiers. "These were fighters, they had guns but we disarmed them."

Ugandan officers had initially said 1,500 or 1,700 men from the M23 had fled to Uganda, but many analysts considered that figure to be inflated.

The U.N. has accused both Uganda and neighboring Rwanda of backing the M23. Both countries have denied the charges.
Posted by: Fred || 11/20/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
Venezuela Lawmakers Give Maduro Power to Rule by Decree for One Year
[An Nahar] Venezuela's National Assembly on Tuesday gave President Nicolas Maduro wide-ranging special powers to rule by decree for one year. The socialist president of the OPEC member state says he needs the greater personal power as his government struggles with soaring inflation and shortages of basic goods.
Posted by: Fred || 11/20/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Cause:
The socialist president
Effect:
soaring inflation and shortages of basic goods.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/20/2013 7:13 Comments || Top||

#2  You can't make those powers go away so easy.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 11/20/2013 7:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Would someone give Obama a drool bucket?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/20/2013 7:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Another 'transformative' administration in action.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/20/2013 9:10 Comments || Top||

#5  His first decree will probably be to make it a lifetime thing.

Your third wish should always be for more wishes, after all.
Posted by: charger || 11/20/2013 10:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Thank G*d we do not have large Democrat majorities in both houses of Congress. Otherwise Obama would be getting the same powers.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/20/2013 10:23 Comments || Top||

#7  The socialist president of the OPEC member state says he needs the greater personal power as his government struggles with soaring inflation and shortages of basic goods.

Hopefully he'll not seek a Canadian web-based solution.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/20/2013 10:24 Comments || Top||

#8  I wish I'd never wished for a wand of wishing.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 11/20/2013 10:26 Comments || Top||

#9  At least our socialist hasn't ruined our economy. Yet.

Interesting, from the 'blame the Pubs article posted here, “You know, people call me a socialist sometimes,” Obama said. “But no, you’ve got to meet real socialists. You’ll have a sense of what a socialist is.”
Posted by: Bobby || 11/20/2013 13:25 Comments || Top||


Economy
NY Post: Census fabricated data in Aug-Sep 2012 jobs report
John Crudele:
In the home stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign, from August to September, the unemployment rate fell sharply -- raising eyebrows from Wall Street to Washington. The decline -- from 8.1 percent in August to 7.8 percent in September -- might not have been all it seemed. The numbers, according to a reliable source, were manipulated.

And the Census Bureau, which does the unemployment survey, knew it.

Just two years before the presidential election, the Census Bureau had caught an employee fabricating data that went into the unemployment report, which is one of the most closely watched measures of the economy. And a knowledgeable source says the deception went beyond that one employee -- that it escalated at the time President Obama was seeking reelection in 2012 and continues today.

"He's not the only one," said the source, who asked to remain anonymous for now but is willing to talk with the Labor Department and Congress if asked.

The Census employee caught faking the results is Julius Buckmon, according to confidential Census documents obtained by The Post. Buckmon told me in an interview this past weekend that he was told to make up information by higher-ups at Census. Ironically, it was Labor's demanding standards that left the door open to manipulation.

Labor requires Census to achieve a 90 percent success rate on its interviews -- meaning it needed to reach 9 out of 10 households targeted and report back on their jobs status. Census currently has six regions from which surveys are conducted. The New York and Philadelphia regions, I'm told, had been coming up short of the 90 percent. Philadelphia filled the gap with fake interviews.

"It was a phone conversation -- I forget the exact words -- but it was, 'Go ahead and fabricate it' to make it what it was," Buckmon told me.

Census, under contract from the Labor Department, conducts the household survey used to tabulate the unemployment rate. Interviews with some 60,000 household go into each month's jobless number, which currently stands at 7.3 percent. Since this is considered a scientific poll, each one of the households interviewed represents 5,000 homes in the US. Buckmon, it turns out, was a very ambitious employee. He conducted three times as many household interviews as his peers, my source said.

By making up survey results -- and, essentially, creating people out of thin air and giving them jobs -- Buckmon's actions could have lowered the jobless rate. Buckmon said he filled out surveys for people he couldn't reach by phone or who didn't answer their doors.

But, Buckmon says, he was never told how to answer the questions about whether these nonexistent people were employed or not, looking for work, or have given up. But people who know how the survey works say that simply by creating people and filling out surveys in their name would boost the number of folks reported as employed.

Census never publicly disclosed the falsification. Nor did it inform Labor that its data was tainted.

"Yes, absolutely they should have told us," said a Labor spokesman. "It would be normal procedure to notify us if there is a problem with data collection."

Census appears to have looked into only a handful of instances of falsification by Buckmon, although more than a dozen instances were reported, according to internal documents. In one document from the probe, Program Coordinator Joal Crosby was ask in 2010, "Why was the suspected ... possible data falsification on all (underscored) other survey work for which data falsification was suspected not investigated by the region?"

On one document seen by The Post, Crosby hand-wrote the answer: "Unable to determine why an investigation was not done for CPS," or the Current Population Survey -- the official name for the unemployment report.

With regard to the Consumer Expenditure survey, only four instances of falsification were looked into, while 14 were reported.
Posted by: Pappy || 11/20/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Benghazi = "Fast-n-Furious II", Obamacare + Website, + now the Census.

OOOOOOOOOOOO, you just know the DemoLeft are missing "Billy Beer", Gary Hart, + Monica's Dress right now.

* CYBERCAST NEWS SERVICE [CNS.com] > RAND PAUL: OBAMA"S ATTEMPT TO FIX OBAMACARE
"UNCONSTITUTIONAL".

* RAW STORY > TED CRUZ: OBAMA IS "LAWLESS", AND SENATORS MUST RENDER JUDGEMENT ON {possible] IMPEACHMENT.

The Bammer lied like POTUS Bill Clinton, and every Democrat on the Hill said they knew he was lying.

versus

* TELEGRAPH.UK > OBAMA'S IRAN: AN ACT OF GENIUS, OR A FOOL'S BARGAIN?

Again, IRAN = America/Amerika's new BFF in Syria agz Al-Qaeda, + our future OWG "Co-Superpower".

THE-US-CAN'T-AFFORD-TO-GO-TO-WAR-ANYMORE = "MULTIPOLAR/POLYCENTRIC" OWG GLOBALIST "PAR" CO-SUPERPOWERS???

AKA SEVEN OWG CO-SUPERPOWERS FOR SEVEN OWG "GLOBAL FEDERAL UNIONS" FOR SEVEN CONTINENTS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/20/2013 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Could have guessed that when we saw it the first time.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/20/2013 1:51 Comments || Top||

#3  President Potemkin!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/20/2013 7:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Remember the brouhaha when one of the first acts of the new O administration was to move the Census Bureau to be under direct WH control. Now you know why. MiniTruth in action.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/20/2013 9:10 Comments || Top||

#5  "The fabricated Presidency."
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/20/2013 9:14 Comments || Top||

#6  MiniTruth indeed. Frightening how closely this regime parallels the book.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/20/2013 9:19 Comments || Top||

#7  And now, ACORN is working on your 0bamacare application!
Posted by: newc || 11/20/2013 9:57 Comments || Top||

#8  David Q. Little is not surprised.
Posted by: bman || 11/20/2013 10:58 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Maldives leader appoints niece as foreign minister
[Pak Daily Times] The new leader of the Maldives has appointed the daughter of former strongman Maumoon Abdul Gayoom as foreign minister, an official said on Tuesday, underscoring the family's renewed influence in the country.
In case you're wondering what happened: They had a relatively mild dictator--Gayoom--for something like 30 years. Then they had an election. The dictator's family wasn't pleased with the results. Gayoom's family organized a coup "to protect Islam" that tossed Nasheed, the guy who was elected. They had another election. The Nasheed party almost made it--I'm guessing there was the usual vote rigging; they trumped up some charges and had him tossed into the slammer in the course of the election. The guy they have now is half brother to the dictator so they're back to the old "stability" thing.
President Abdulla Yameen, half-brother of Gayoom who ruled for 30 years till 2008, named Dhunya Maumoon, 43, to the post in his first appointments Sunday before forming a full cabinet later, the official said.
...and I'm sure there's no one more competent to fill the job than His Excellency's favorite niece.
"The foreign ministry is crucial for the Maldives given the country needs to rebuild its international image after nearly two years of political unrest," said the senior administration official, asking not to be named.

The election of Yameen, 54, in Saturday's run-off election ended nearly two years of turmoil in the honeymoon islands.

The official said the new president was considering requests from his coalition partners to fill more cabinet positions. Minister Maumoon, Yameen's niece, was deputy foreign minister in the government of Mohammed Waheed, who took power after his predecessor Mohammed Nasheed was toppled in what he called a coup in February 2012.
Posted by: Fred || 11/20/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is the place that's going under the rising oceans soon, right?

Or did The One make them stop rising?
Posted by: Bobby || 11/20/2013 13:26 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
6.27 Petaflops - Not fast but within the top 6
The new supercomputer XC30 system at the University of Stuttgart, nicknamed Hornet, will be able to process a quadrillion mathematical calculations per second. The Hornet will be used at the University’s High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, providing a useful tool for scientists and researchers in the automotive and aerospace industries.

“For a number of years now, we have worked in close collaboration with Cray to provide our researchers and scientists, as well as our industrial partners in the automotive and aerospace industries, with the computational resources of highly advanced supercomputing systems,” said Prof. Dr. Michael M. Resch, director of HLRS. “Reliability, performance, support and customer service are vitally important to us, and Cray and its supercomputers continue to meet the requirements of our organization and our vast user community.”
Posted by: Au Auric || 11/20/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That's a lot of computing horsepower!
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/20/2013 9:14 Comments || Top||

#2  You don't suppose they might try to sort through the rubble over at HHS with this thing?
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 11/20/2013 10:51 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't think even that Chinese Tianhe-2 supercomputer (currently the fastest in the world at 33.86 petaflops) can sort thru that mess.

As designed. (the HHS mess that is...)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/20/2013 11:05 Comments || Top||


Government
Blue Cross NC to raise rates up to 24 percent on reinstated health plans
[NEWSOBSERVER] Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina said Tuesday that it will raise rates as much as 24 percent on 2013 individual health insurance plans that are being extended next year.

The increase is double the price inflation for the same health plans just a year ago, but many Blue Cross customers who have grumbled about rising costs in past years are cheering the news this time.

The health plans in question were slated for elimination under the Affordable Care Act, the nation's health care law, but Blue Cross said last week it would offer the plans next year. President Barack Obama urged insurers to extend the individual plans for one year amid a public outcry over forced cancellations and steep price increases for replacement plans.

The N.C. Department of Insurance will review the proposed rates and, if it determines they are too high, it could order Blue Cross to issue refunds to customers. The agency has not set a deadline to review the proposed rates, which go into effect Jan. 1.

"The key thing is -- this is one more year," said Blue Cross spokeswoman Michelle Douglas. "It's not saying you can keep this plan forever."
Posted by: Fred || 11/20/2013 11:15 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



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Wed 2013-11-20
  Yemen Drone Strike Kills Three 'Qaida' Suspects
Tue 2013-11-19
  At least 18 killed in explosions targeting Iranian embassy in Beirut
Mon 2013-11-18
  Syria Rebels Bomb Government Building, Kill 31
Sun 2013-11-17
  Hezbollah commander killed in Syria
Sat 2013-11-16
  Militias attack Libyan protesters, killing 31
Fri 2013-11-15
  Iraq Bombers Kill 43 as Millions Mark Shiite Holiday
Thu 2013-11-14
  Bomb blasts outside Karachi imambargahs wound 14
Wed 2013-11-13
  Syria Kurds Announce Transitional Autonomous Government
Tue 2013-11-12
  Gunmen gun down 'chief financier' of Haqqani network in Islamabad
Mon 2013-11-11
  Syria army retakes key base near Aleppo: State TV
Sun 2013-11-10
  Imambargah attacks leave three dead, spark outrage
Sat 2013-11-09
  Zawahiri Disbands Main Qaida Faction in Syria
Fri 2013-11-08
  'Mullah Radio' takes overTTP, terms talks 'waste of time'
Thu 2013-11-07
  Nigeria president seeks state of emergency extension
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  Mortar round hits Vatican embassy in Damascus

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