NYT, so no quoting. Members of Anonymous appear to be planning to attack the Domain Name System today, March 31st. DNS is the mechanism that translates web page links to Internet addresses. The planned attack is a distributed denial of service, but DNS has a lot of redundancy so it would have to be massive and sustained to have much effect. If you're reading this, they haven't succeeded at the moment.
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Since Fred's last foray under the hood, Rantburg page loads have been screaming fast on Safari. Perhaps the Anonymous pukes are attacking some other Web...
Mastercard and Visa confirmed the data of as many as ten million customers has been stolen.
Officials are investigating what they believe is one of the largest-known credit card heists in the U.S. after Mastercard and Visa confirmed the data of as many as ten million customers has been stolen.
I've been warned American Express was also hit.
The companies notified U.S. banks of a potential security breach, and they are now going through the process of pinpointing the affected accounts before contacting customers involved.
Customers are urged to check their accounts online or contact their financial institution regarding any concerns they have.
The companies, which are the two largest global credit card processors, said the issue stemmed from a third-party vendor, reportedly Global Payments, and not their own internal systems.
Answers to the question few are asking, except maybe The Atlantic...
CBS: Not impossible.
While the expression of interest could hint that the network could reconsider him for some position, a statement by Sandy Socolow, Walter Cronkite's final executive producer, suggests the network would never take the risk at a news gig. "Oh, no, no, no, he's not a newsman," she said. "He's not a reporter. I've never seen anything that he's done that was original, in terms of the information." That's considered "not impossible"?
News Corp: Don't bet on it.
Olbermann left Rupert Murdoch's Fox Sports acrimoniously and Murdoch told The New Yorker "I fired him... He's crazy." OK.Not looking good there...
HBO: Not impossible.
If the premium cable network wanted a less funny, newsier voice to add to its lineup, Olbermann would be the guy. He certainly would fit with its liberal programming bent. ...and because HBO isn't hemmorraging enough subcribers lately.
ESPN: Forget about it.
An ESPN official was quoted saying Olbermann "didn't burn the bridges here, he napalmed them." I'm detecting a trend.
MSNBC: Forget about it.
By all accounts, Olbermann drove MSNBC executives and his underlings up the wall. I'm detecting a trend becoming a psychosis.
CNN: Not impossible.
CNN has aggressively considered Olbermann as a hire in the past but ultimately decided he was too left-of-center for the brand. Is this the same CNN that's on cable in this country, or another CNN that I don't know about?
KOTV? Not impossible.
It certainly worked for Glenn Beck, as GBTV was reportedly on track to take in $20 million in revenue for its debut year. Yeah, but Beck has these things called "viewers". I'm thinking Farm Reports. Or worse, maybe Oprah TV...
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I'm thinking he'll write a book or two and go on the pundit speaking book shilling tour. In five or ten years the leadership at these places will turn-over and forget and someone will give him another chance to fail out of nostalgia and stupidity.
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The Spew. Rosie, Keithy, Rosanne and there's a lot to pick from for "special guests" to fill out the panel. It'll be like the Lunatic Asylum of television
GENEVA - The scientist who headed a European research team that last year measured particles traveling faster than light has resigned.
Italy's National Institute of Nuclear Physics says Antonio Ereditato has stepped down from the leadership of the OPERA experiment weeks after a rival team cast doubt on the accuracy of its readings. Ereditato confirmed his resignation to The Associated Press in an email Friday but declined to comment further. I guess that "close enough for government work" thing doesn't fly over there?
The OPERA team's measurements on the speed of neutrinos were met with surprise by the scientific community when announced in September. According to Albert Einstein's theories, nothing can travel faster than light. Hey, they said there'd be no math...
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Fear not, TREK fans, Russia is coming to save the day for America = Amerika, vee start construction of NUCLEAR SPACE ENGINES come Year 2017.
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The neutrino has a small but non-zero mass. Wouldn't the neutrino mass become infinite according to Einstein's theory when the speed of light was achieved?
Is this one of those deals like green energy, global warming, the Volt, etc.
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Is the mass of the neutrino a component of "dark matter"?
All this stuff makes me laugh as there are so many truck sized holes in the "theories". Sure the math may hold together but all that means is that there is a mathematical puzzle, kind of like the relationship of the Great pyramid to Pi (an artifact of the way they did measurements).
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As much as I enjoy engaging in public mockery, I'm going to stand up for the CERN guys. They did their experiment, got some *very* interesting results and then PUBLISHED THEIR WORK for open critique. This is exactly how the game is played.
Compare this with Mann and the rest of those global warming grifters who literally said we can't show you our data and methods, you would only try to find something wrong with it.
A federal judge in New York state Friday dismissed claims that bloggers who had provided content without compensation should be compensated, according to US wire and blog reports.
Judge U.S. District Judge John Koeltl said in the dismissal order that the plaintiffs entered their agreements with Ariana Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post, "with eyes wide open" and that they are not entitled to any part of the $105 million in damages alleged in the lawsuit.
The lawsuit was brought just after Huffington sold her highly successful news aggregation website to AOL last year for a reported $315 million. Allegations in the lawsuit were that Huffington had unjustly enriched herself at the expense of several bloggers who had provided content over the years, a claim Judge Koetl dismissed.
In the dismissal order Judge Koeltl said that in order for a unjust enrichment compensation to be determined under law, an expectation of compensation was to be explicit in the arrangements between Huffington and her bloggers. Instead, the only thing of value Huffington offered was exposure.
The plaintiffs, in the person of Jonathan Tasini, Tara Dublin, Richard Laermer and Billy Altman, among many others also alleged that they were recruited by Huffington to provide content in exchange for exposure, and use social media such as Twitter to promote their articles and increase visits to the Huffington post. The claim the plaintiffs should receive some part of the $315 million purchase price Huffington reportedly received in the sale of the website was dismissed.
It is known that many other bloggers were formerly with print media, who had been placed on the outs by consolidation and by job losses in the print media business, mainly newspaper and other print media, and had been hoping they would return to their former positions through their work with The Huffington Post.
Judge Koeltl also said many of those writers and bloggers were not kept in their positions at The Huffington Post, that the writers who provided content could have taken other offers during the time in question.
The Huffington Post was set up in May 2005 using money provided by several investors. Before she sold her website, Huffington continually returned to her investors for more money to keep her website running. At one point a year before she sold out to AOL, the Huffington Post was losing a reported $1 million a month.
The Huffington Post also used paid writers and editors during it six year run before being sold.
Stupid liberals. They always think things should be the way they think they should be, rather than how they are. You were offered exposure and that's it. Someone got rich of your work? That's your fault, not theirs. Personal responsibility.
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"Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it
You play the guitar on the mtv
That ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Money for nothin' and your chicks for free
Money for nothin' and chicks for free"
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South Africa's ruling clique (the ANC) is modeled on the Communist Party of the USSR where most of their leadership was trained. So, of course it's turning into a one-party dictatorship / kleptocracy.
Nothing like hitting a struggling nation while it's down. In this case, beating it with a Number Seven truncheon, accompanied by a barrel of mustache wax, doesn't begin to cover it.
(Xinhua) -- The United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Children's Found (UNICEF) is to launch a measles vaccination program in Yemen, after an outbreak of the disease in the Middle East country has killed over 170 children and left more than 4,000 infected since mid-2011, a UN front man told news hounds here Friday.
Strange, this sort of thing doesn't happen in the civilized world...
The UNICEF will kick off the vaccination drive in Yemen in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Yemeni Ministry of Health, UN front man Eduardo del Buey told news hounds here during a daily news briefing.
"The near breakdown of Yemen's health services during the political crisis, and severe malnutrition amongst children under the age of five were the leading factors behind this outbreak," del Buey said.
The vaccination campaign, which will be launched on Saturday, is aimed to reach over 8 million children under the age of five. Currently, more than 1.2 million children benefit from the polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... vaccine and vitamin A supplement.
In 2009, UNICEF released a report where Yemen was listed as one of the many countries to have severe cases of undernourishment in children.
ISLAMABAD: The United Kingdom (UK) Border Agency (UKBA) will implement new global changes to the immigration rules for those aspiring to work or study in the UK, read a British High Commission blurb issued on Friday.
Full details of the changes, which come into effect on April 6, could be found on the UKBA's website. These changes would not be applied to marriage settlement applications.
The UKBA is also introducing new measures to help improve the level of customer service to applicants from Pakistain, including a new online application system and a priority visa service.
From 1 May, all applicants and their dependants who are applying for a UK visa must use the online service to fill in their visa application forms.
UK High Commissioner Adam Thomson said, "People-to-people links are the foundation of the strong bilateral links between the UK and Pakistain. These changes to our visa system are good for the British people and good for Pakistain. Our relationship is too important to allow fraudulent behaviour to tarnish genuine travellers."
The blurb also read that from April 6, those applying for work or study visas (points-based applications) must do so online; From 1 May, applicants and their dependants who are applying for a UK visa must apply online. From this date, the UK Border Agency will no longer accept manually completed paper application forms.
On April 1, the British High Commission will introduce a priority visa service. This will be available to customers who are applying for a UK visit visa; and have travelled to the UK within the last two years; and have complied with the UK's immigration laws.
The fee for the service is Rs 8,400 per application, in addition to the visa application fee, and is payable at the visa application centre. Applicants need to obtain a receipt for every transaction.
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UK High Commissioner Adam Thomson said, "People-to-people links are the foundation of the strong bilateral links between the UK and Pakistain. These changes to our visa system are good for the British people and good for Pakistain. Our relationship is too important to allow fraudulent behaviour to tarnish genuine travellers."
And now we know why they call him the "high" commissioner...
Wadn't us, honest. Everyone knows Chinese don't hack Japanese companies or Indian military research organizationses, and we certainly wouldn't do such a thing to Tibetan activists.
NYT article. Paul Krugman is probably ginning up an article on the honest entrepreneurial activities of Chinese comp sci majors as we speak.
Not what I want to eat myself, but urine has historically had a lot of folk uses. I know some Native Americans who swear it dries up poison ivy rashes and fungal infections quickly and without scarring. FWIW
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I check out the ip addresses of suspicious hits on my company's web server. An awful lot of them come from China. Next up is Russia, Ukraine, Romania. If I had my way we'd just firewall the whole lot of them.
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Of course they are, poor dears. I'm sure that all those hack attacks coming from PLA sites are only a sign of their eternal vigilance against antirevolutionary cadres. Or something.
A report by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Coordination Center of China says the Asian country has become the world's biggest victim of cyber attacks, Press TV reports.
The report adds that 8.9 million domestic computers in china were attacked and controlled by 47,000 overseas Internet Protocol (IP) addresses last year.
Attacks include server destruction, website content distortion and theft of personal data from Chinese Internet users. In one of the attacks hackers changed the content of over one thousand Chinese websites, including more than 400 run by government agencies.
"China's economic, political and military information becomes more interesting to its overseas counterparts and has attracted more hackers," Wang Fengwei of the Shanghai Cenlaw and Partners Law Firm told Press TV.
Computer experts say most of the IP addresses of the attackers originated in Japan, the United States and the Republic of Korea.
"Japan and Korea are close neighbors of China with strong political, economic and military links with us; and the US has interest in different countries," Fengwei added.
Most hackers have reportedly used Trojan Horse-style programs to steal personal data. They have also intended to access state networks and steal confidential information.
Experts believe the Chinese cyber defense is not efficient despite the fact that the government has been so prudent about the internet content and there are even Internet "police" supervising it.
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What about all the little kid pee spilling on keyboards?
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China World's Biggest Victim Of Cyber Attacks
BS. (Or maybe, just maybe, karma is a bisque.)
This sounds hilariously similar to the Mooselimbs whining about nearly non-existent anti-Mooselimb backlash every time Mooselimbs go on their latest wholesale infidel slaughter.
h/t Instapundit, Andrew Stuttaford
The central bank of Germany will no longer accept bank bonds backed by Ireland, Greece and Portugal as collateral, becoming the first euro-zone central bank to exercise a new privilege to protect its balance sheet from the region's debt crisis.
[Guardian]. General Motors, the world's largest carmaker, has confirmed that it is pulling funding from the Heartland Institute, an ultra-conservative thinktank known for its scepticism about climate change.
The decision by the GM Foundation to halt its support for Heartland after 20 years underlines the new image the carmaker is seeking to project as part of its social responsibility programme.
The fact that the Obama administration controls GM via tax money extorted from you and from me has nothing to do with this, at least in the eyes of the Guardian.
In the past GM has itself been associated with efforts to discredit climate change science, but in recent years it has been investing heavily in green technologies and cars including the electric/petrol hybrid, the Chevy Volt.
Market distortions created by the Obama administration using tax money extorted etc. etc. apparently isn't involved in this shift, either.
In a statement, GM said that it now runs its business "as if climate change is real and believe we have a role to play in developing new cars, trucks and technologies that can make a difference".
The funding cut -- just $15,000 a year -- is small beer for the institute, which has a multi-million dollar turnover, largely from a single anonymous donor. But it is a blow to the standing of the thinktank and to the leading role it plays as an advocate of climate change scepticism.
A blow. A most grievous blow. An entire $15k blow. Take that, deniers!!!!
The thinktank has long been an incubator of ideas casting doubt that the world is warming as a result of man-made pollution.
GM's funding of Heartland was first revealed in a series of internal documents that have themselves become hotly contested as they were obtained under false pretences by prominent climate change scientist Peter Gleick. A specialist in water science who stepped down as president of the Pacific Institute as a result of the controversy, Gleick had persuaded the Heartland to pass him information about its policies and procedures by posing as a board member.
In fact, GM's donation was not related in any way to climate science but to a wholly different area of Heartland activity. Even so, the relationship has become too awkward for the carmaker to sustain.
The Heartland Institute said in a statement that GM's breach with it had been prompted by "false claims contained in a fake memo circulated by disgraced climate scientist Peter Gleick". The comment was a reference to one of the documents obtained by Gleick that appears to have been a forgery.
However, the disclosure of GM's funding was likely to have been contained in a separate document whose authenticity has not been called into question and that clearly contained accurate information about funders.
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In a statement, GM said that it now runs its business "as if climate change is real and believe we have a role to play in developing new cars, trucks and technologies that can make a difference".
Oh wow, man.
And here all this time I thought they were in the business of making money selling cars.
Didn't know there was a percentage from saving the planet.
The song "See The U.S.A. In Your Chevrolet" (title as filed for 1950 copyright)[1] is a commercial jingle from circa 1949, with lyrics and music by Leo Corday (ASCAP) and Leon Carr (ASCAP),[2] written for the Chevrolet Division of General Motors Corp.[1] The song was the Chevrolet jingle sung on the show Inside U.S.A. with Chevrolet by Chevrolet's real-life husband-wife duo, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy,[1] years before it became associated with Dinah Shore through Chevrolet's decade-long sponsorship of her television shows. Dinah Shore sang the song after 1952,[1] and it became something of a signature song for her. Later the song was also sung by male spokesman Pat Boone on his Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom (ABC) from 1957 through 1960. When the games of the Los Angeles Dodgers were televised in the 1960s,
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GM said that it now runs its business "as if climate change is real...
We also run our business as if arithmetic no longer applies and even though we are losing money on every Volt sold, we hope to make it up on volume. We're too big to fail!
The U.S. Department of Justice had no comment on the $10,000 bounty the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) was offering for a "citizen's arrest" of George Zimmerman, the 28 year old man who told Sanford, Florida Police he shot and killed 17 year old Trayvon Martin on February 26 in an act of self-defense.
According to a number of reports, the NBPP "called for the mobilization of 10,000 black men" to do the "arrest." Zimmerman and his family have received death threats since the case became a national issue. Mr. Zimmerman has not been arrested by local authorities. Federal, state, and local investigations of the shooting are happening, and he is currently in hiding.
In an e-mail response to an inquiry, DOJ Office of Public Affairs' Xochitl Hinojosa wrote: "The FBI is aware of the statements and we are unable to comment at this time."
Rep. Allen West, Florida Republican, posted a statement on his FaceBook page calling on the Justice Department to prosecute the NBPP for the bounty:
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I thought the NBPP put out the bounty on Zimmerman "dead or alive?" Wouldn't this be a Florida crime? Shouldn't members of the NBPP be arrested for this crime?
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Finally found a reason for domestic Drones. The New Black Panther Party. So I say let's sit down at the joy sticks controls, play and party. :)
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IMO the Panthers need to be arrested for being vigilantes and taking matters into their own hands and inciting violence, but nothing will happen, same as blocking voters at the polling site they will get a pass from Holder and Obama.
Now this is racist.
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Not sure how much more this whole deal could backfire for the left. Perhaps a fight between La Raza and the NBPP. Perhaps latinos will realize that the leftists in DC favor their African-American interests by not just a small amount but by a gulf.
Meanwhile, we must all remember that a part of this story was going to be anti-gun and the discouragement of self defense and neighborhood watch.
And if you want to really break out the tin foil, prep for riots and who controls the streets.
By the way...hoodies ok, but juggalos are gangbangers.
ISLAMABAD: Cases of infant mortality have registered an increase in December last year as compared to the preceding month - an average of 56 deaths per district out of those monitored and reporting such cases - occurring in December and 51 in November, says a Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) report.
Infant mortality in this report refers to children who did not live to see their first birthday. Most of the cases were reported in Sahiwal (225), followed by Gujrat (157) and Faisalabad (136).
The report, released on Friday, is based on reported cases of diseases at government health offices in 79 districts. Of the monitored districts, 36 reported cases of infant mortality. It said that 51 children died before attaining the age of five years in seven districts while 124 mothers died due to pregnancy and delivery-related complications in 31 of the monitored districts.
According to the report, 2,199,222 cases of observed diseases were reported.
Among viral diseases, hepatitis was the most reported with 2,803 cases, of which 619 were recorded in Gujrat, another 551 in Gujranwala and 321 in Bahawalpur.
On the polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... front, three new cases emerged - one each in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Central, Dera Ghazi Khan and Vehari, while there were 27 cases of probable poliomyelitis - all being reported in Bloody Karachi Central. Also reported were 19 suspected cases of AIDS - 11 of them in Sargodha, seven in Gujrat and one in Gujranwala, the report said. On the other hand, 1,774 cases of malaria were reported - Hafizabad topping the list with 499 cases, followed by Khyber Agency (362) and Killa Saifullah (233). However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... no case of dengue surfaced during the reporting month. There were 111 cases of measles, tetanus (22) and meningitis (13).
Acute respiratory tract infections were the most commonly reported set of diseases constituting 53 percent of the total disease burden. Faisalabad (144,425), Gujranwala (59,517) and Bahawalpur (53,268) were the top three districts reporting such infections. At least 14 percent of the total diseases comprised gastrointestinal infections and 12 percent of skin diseases. Moreover, there were 10,343 cases of animal bites and 1,635 of tuberculosis. Unlike last month, when Bahawalpur reported the highest disease burden, December saw Faisalabad recording the most cases (9 percent), followed by Bahawalpur (8 percent) and Gujrat (7 percent).
The food that inspires wariness is on course for inspiring even more wonder from a medical standpoint as scientists reported this week the latest evidence that chili peppers are a heart-healthy food with potential to protect against the number one cause of death in the developed world. The report was part of the 243rd National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the worlds largest scientific society, being held in San Diego this week.
The study focused on capsaicin and its fiery-hot relatives, a piquant family of substances termed capsaicinoids. The component that gives cayennes, jalapenos, habaneros and other chili peppers their heat, capsaicin already has an established role in medicine in rub-on-the-skin creams to treat arthritis and certain forms of pain. Past research suggested that spicing food with chilies can lower blood pressure in people with that condition, reduce blood cholesterol and ease the tendency for dangerous blood clots to form. knew it!
Villaraigosa is one of several Democratic mayors in cities across the country -- Chicago, Cleveland, Newark and Boston, among them -- who are challenging teachers unions in ways that seemed inconceivable just a decade ago. Not to mention last week!
At at time when most Americans believe that U.S. education is imperiled, and cities are especially struggling to improve schools, the tension between the mayors and the unions is causing a fundamental realignment of two powerful forces in urban politics. It's for The Children!
The mayors risk turning labor friends into enemies, a lesson D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty learned in 2010 when he lost his seat in part because teachers were enraged by his school reforms. The unions, meanwhile, risk appearing recalcitrant and self-serving, further alienating a public frustrated by failing schools and growing cool to organized labor. Right. So go after Governors next -- how about Wisconsin? It's for the Children!
The mayors want a raft of changes. They want to replace the uniform pay scale with merit pay. They seek to expand public charter schools, which are largely non-union. Some want to lengthen school days, requiring teachers to work more hours. Nearly all of these mayors have set their sights on the one workplace protection that teachers have held central for more than 100 years: tenure.
The unions say many of the "fixes" embraced by the mayors are trendy ideas without evidence that they help children learn. Not unlike many of the trendy ideas the teachers embrace.
Instead, they allow politicians to appear as if they are making improvements without having to confront the profound problems of urban schools, labor leaders say. "We don't want to have honest conversations about poverty and segregation and race and class, all those other sorts of ills," said Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union. Wait a minute! Poverty and segregation and race and class and all those other sorts of ills - isn't that the job of Congress?
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You mean having an effective and efficient school system would attract the taxable class rather than sending them beyond your excise powers, who'd thought that?
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The problem is the U.S. has an education department.
1/ It sounds like something for the states to decide what's taught.
2/ It's subsidised, with the low quality, rant-seeking and marxist invasion that inevitably entails.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
By Chris Covert
The U.S. Department of Justice had no comment on the $10,000 bounty the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) was offering for a "citizen's arrest" of George Zimmerman, the 28 year old man who told Sanford, Florida Police he shot and killed 17 year old Trayvon Martin on February 26 in an act of self-defense.
Villaraigosa is one of several Democratic mayors in cities across the country -- Chicago, Cleveland, Newark and Boston, among them -- who are challenging teachers unions in ways that seemed inconceivable just a decade ago.
