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I don't question the level 2 rating for Deutch, but the copywriter for the graphic probably deserves a Level 1 for misspelling, "influential". Just sayin'.
Malware may have been a contributory cause of a fatal Spanair crash that killed 154 people two years ago.
Spanair flight number JK 5022 crashed with 172 on board moments after taking off from Madrid's Barajas Airport on a scheduled flight to Las Palmas on 20 August 2008. Just 18 survived the crash and subsequent fire aboard the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 aircraft.
The airline's central computer which registered technical problems on planes was infected by Trojans at the time of the fatal crash and this resulted in a failure to raise an alarm over multiple problems with the plane, according to Spanish daily El Pais.
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So can the programmers be sought for prosecution on manslaughter charges?
Unlikely, a lot of malware is scripts and other kinds of crud cobbled together. The mildest forms cause things like popups, while the more malicious have rootkits which install backdoors into a system, create remote procedure calls to broadcast continously over a net eating up bandwidth and even spam certain executables over and over again.
Nonetheless I'd be asking how the heck the malware got ONTO the central computer. My bet is a maintenance laptop was already infected and when checking the main computer in turn infected it.
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Another possibility could be COTS hardware that was compromised from the manufacturer (see Dell's recent admission that it shipped some of it's PowerEdge servers with compromised hardware.)
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My question is who the hell programmed the central computer of the airliner with the same OS used for laptops, etc. An airplane running Windows? Really? That is a good way to "Blue Screen" an entire jetliner.
I would NEVER trust an airliner running Microsoft Windows (or any other Microsoft product) as its central computer. Who the HELL put Microsoft software on an airliner?
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This might be crap journalism.
I don't believe the airplane sensors inform the airline but doesn't inform the pilots... That would be a typical Soviet approach.
The airline's central computer which registered technical problems on planes was infected by Trojans at the time of the fatal crash and this resulted in a failure to raise an alarm over multiple problems with the plane
Meaning the computer used to track maintenance and performance issues on Spanair's aircraft was infected, not the computer on the aircraft that crashed.
(Reuters) - It seems a pair of marijuana growers in Western Canada have been using bears to protect their illegal crop, but the well-fed animals dropped their guard duties, police said on Wednesday.
Officers were dismantling two large outdoor plots of marijuana near Christina Lake, British Columbia, when they realized there were 10 large black bears wandering around the farm property, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said. Hey, Yogi! Lookit all dees Cops. Ya reackon they has a pickanic basket?
Officers were initially worried the bears might be dangerous, but quickly realized the animals were actually very docile and content just to sit around as the marijuana was seized, police said in a news release. Hey, Boo-boo! Don't bogart that joint. Pass it over to me.
Two people were arrested in connection with the drugs.
The bears, which were apparently being fed dog food to keep them on the property, may eventually have to be put down, police said. Just keep feeding them. And let 'em take a toke now and then.
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BEDFORD, Va. (AP) -- A driver has been convicted of animal cruelty and fined $100 after Virginia authorities found a goat stuffed in the trunk of her car. "Baby did a baaaad baaaad thing, baby did a baaaad baaaad thing."
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The perp is a she, Mike. It's been all over the news here (in VA).
And the goat is doing fine. :-D
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The goat was panting heavily
We won't even go there.
and animal control officers say the temperature in the trunk was 94 degrees.
Come on down to the Southwest this time of year, when 94 is comfortable.
The goat is now living at a Bedford County farm.
Spending time with the White House Turkey who also received a pardon from dinner. I guess the Kenyans will have to settle for some processed McNuggets instead.
The Department of Justice is seeking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations, according to federal records.
A maximum of nine Ebonics experts will work with the Drug Enforcement Administrations Atlanta field division, where the linguists, after obtaining a DEA Sensitive security clearance, will help investigators decipher the results of telephonic monitoring of court ordered nonconsensual intercepts, consensual listening devices, and other media
Ebonics has widely been described as a nonstandard variant of English spoken largely by African Americans. John R. Rickford, a Stanford University professor of linguistics, has described it as Black English and noted that Ebonics pronunciation includes features like the omission of the final consonant in words like past (pas ) and hand (han), the pronunciation of the th in bath as t (bat) or f (baf), and the pronunciation of the vowel in words like my and ride as a long ah (mah, rahd).
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Assignment: Please translate the following Rap song lyrics from Ebonics to standard English.
Artist: Notorious B.I.G.
Album: Ready to Die
Song: One more chance (remix)
Lyrics:
First things first, I poppa, freaks all the honeys
Dummies - playboy bunnies, those wantin money
Those the ones I like cause they dont get nathan
But penetration, unless it smells like sanitation
Garbage, I turn like doorknobs
Heart throb, never, black and ugly as ever
However, I stay coochied down to the socks
Rings and watch filled with rocks
TRANSLATION:
As a general rule, I perform deviant sexual acts with women of all kinds, including but not limited to those with limited intellect, nude magazine models, and prostitutes. I particularly enjoy sexual encounters with the latter group as they are generally disappointed in the fact that they only receive penile intercourse and nothing more, unless of course, they douche on a consistent basis. Although I am extremely unattractive, I am able to engage in these types of sexual acts with some regularity. Perhaps my sexuality is somehow related to my fancy and expensive jewelry.
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You, You, You mean they're just too (Gasp) lazy to pronounce the whole word, so they (Gulp) drop a part and fool you Overeducated morons into thinking its a new "Language"?
No Morons it's clled "Dialect".
(From Google)
The term dialect (from the Greek Language word dialektos, ÄéÜëåêôïò) is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers.
OR
(Wikipedia)
but a dialect may also be defined by other factors, such as social class.
"Cockney" comes immediately to mind.
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Police said that Marleine Bastien was in a car Saturday with her sister outside the Church of the Living God when another car pulled up along side them. A man got out and demanded the women give him their purses and threatened to kill them. Well, looks like nobody got hurt this time. I wonder which ticket they'll run on after this incident. I wonder which party the muggers will vote for.
Authorities evacuated tens of thousands from flood-threatened areas in the south on Sunday, but insisted that the 2.5 million people of Hyderabad were safe from the country's worst-ever floods. "Yeah. Sure. Nuttin' to worry about."
The civilian government has faced an outpouring of fury over sluggish relief efforts, ... a symptom of the Pak government's well-known ineptitude...
while officials are warning that the country faces ruinous economic losses of up to $43 billion, ahead of IMF talks this week.
The month-long floods have killed 1,500 people and affected up to 20 million nationwide, according to official tallies, with the threat of disease ever-present in the camps sheltering penniless survivors.
A four-foot wide breach in Shahdadkot protective dike on Sunday submerged another two villages with water, leaving some 200 people stranded.
Rising: The Indus River is in very high flood at Kotri Barrage as the water level continues to surge. According to the Flood Forecasting Division (FFD), water outflow at Kotri has been recorded at 821,900 cusecs. Similarly, the outflow of water at Guddu Barrage has been recorded at 789,400 cusecs.
Trying to protect: "We are right now trying to protect Shahdadkot, which is threatened by the rising floodwaters," Sindh Irrigation Minister Jam Saifullah Dharejo said.
He said an embankment built to protect the city was under pressure from the waters and "we are trying to save the city from the unprecedented flood".
Dharejo said the Sindh government had already escorted most of Shahdadkot's 100,000 population to safety, AFP reported.
"But there are still some people stranded in these villages (around Shahdadkot) and we are making efforts to rescue them," he added.
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I am sorry those people are suffering but not sorry enough to give them any money or help.
Their culture is broken
They spent too much energy praying to Allah and suppressing women. Having 9 kids instead of building proper drainage systems.
They know they are prone to floods in the sub-continent.
If it's not Pakistan then it's India or Bangladesh.
So when they stop praying at the mosque 5 times a day, stoning women and having more children than they can feed, and instead start planning and building earthquake-coded drainage networks, dams, dikes and levies, then I will feel moved to contribute something.
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Muslims are predators who view the rest of humanity as their natural prey. Helping them is one of the stupidest, most perverse things that humans can do.
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TOPIX/EINNNEWS > GWYNNE DYERS: PAKISTAN'S [+ Asia's] WATER PROBLEMS HAS ONLY BEGUN.
E.g. PHILIPPINES > WATER CRSIS anticipated to occur come Year 2020.
PHIL MILITANTS PREPARE/TRAIN FOR WAR AS MANILA GOVT OFFICIALS TALK OF PEACE.
* TOPIX > [Philippines = MILF]MUSLIM REBELS: NO HOPE FOR PEACE TALKS WITHOUT CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
"Hope-n-Change" Filipino Muslims + Commie-Maoists? can believe in.
IOW, MILITANTS > WANT EVERYTHING DWON IN WRITING e.g. CHINA'S DEMAND FOR A DETAILED WRITTEN EXPLANATION FROM MANILA ON HOW THE MANILA POLICE DEPT. = MPD SWAT/"SPECIAL ACTION" POLICE TEAMS BOTCHED A BUS RESCUE OF SEVERAL FORMERLY-ALIVE-NOW DEAD HONG KONG CHINESE TOURISTS HELD HOSTAGE BY ONE OF THIER OWN [former MPD Police Officer-Inspector].
After the entrance of more flood tides from three sides into Jaffarabad, water level has risen by 13-15 feet in many areas, particularly in the district headquarters Dera Allah Yar, while a Provincial District Management Authority-compiled report confirmed the displacement of 1.1 million people and deaths of 40 persons by raging floods in Balochistan. On Sunday, dozens of flood victims — most of them children suffering from gastroenteritis and other waterborne diseases — were brought to Dera Murad Jamali, Sibi and Quetta hospitals. Doctors told media that due to acute shortage of required medicines at the hospitals and medical camps, fear of deaths of a large number of such patients had emerged. During the last few days after the worst-ever floods hit Balochistan's districts, over 52 persons infected with waterborne diseases have died, the major cause of which is being said to be the non-provision of timely medical treatment and non-availability of necessary medicines at camps and hospitals.
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[Arab News] An Islamic scholar has described Saudi intellectuals with modern views as heretics and followers of the West.
Ahmad bin Abdullah Al-Ammari, former dean of the faculty of the Holy Qur'an at the Madinah Islamic University, said in a lecture at the Baha Literary Club last week that a lot of people were seduced by Western ideals, Al-Madinah daily reported.
Al-Ammari did not spare "the modernists" in his sweeping attack, describing them as "the tails of the intellectuals in the Arab world."
Al-Ammari began his speech by saying that the title of the lecture, "We and the Others...Our Islam is Our Identity," was chosen deliberately.
He added that it was a reaction to the theme of a previous event organized by the club focusing on cultural identity in a changing world.
He also said the lecture aimed to describe the difference between Muslims, the "We" in the title, and the "Others," who he described as kafirs (infidels).
He claimed the two groups could never come together as they were incompatible.
The differences between them did not only include a divergence of views, but the gulf between them was as wide as the difference between thesis and antithesis, he said.
He also cited several verses from the Holy Qur'an and the Hadith to support his arguments.
"Our identity is based on the religion of Islam that has been chosen for us by Almighty Allah. It is also steeped in our history," he said.
"On the other hand, the other faces to our identity are of recent origin and appeared with the opening of universities. But we are the Ummah of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), and our identity is Islam, which has been clearly explained in the Qur'an.
"That is why I wonder how our own people can throw away their identity and behave like birds migrating from one place to another, never finding a permanent abode." He added that missionaries and colonialists have been trying to destabilize the Islamic world through various campaigns.
They never succeeded in their attempts, he said, claiming that they devised another way to destroy Islam by inviting student delegations to the West. He claimed that a large number of the young people studying abroad are influenced by Western ideals.
According to Al-Ammari, the word culture has not been used in its precise meaning. Any man with a little knowledge of various subjects, but no in-depth knowledge about one particular area, is now referred to as a cultured man or intellectual, he said.
He claimed some intellectuals cannot speak authoritatively on anything and should not be called a scholar because they have no in-depth knowledge. The most important qualification that any cultured man must have is pride about his identity, he said.
Al-Ammari attributed the erosion of identity in the Arab world to the weakness of authority and a lack of real knowledge. The situation is further exacerbated by the presence of hypocrites in society who always support the enemies of Islam, he said.
Al-Ammari also mocked Saudi novelists Turki Al-Hamad, Raja Al-Sani and Abdu Khal, claiming they were just Western-influenced Arab "intellectuals".
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I used to think that the only thing more disgusting than haggis was a half-eaten haggis ....
A hunt was on Sunday for the woman branded "Britain's most disgusting person" for urinating on a war memorial after she fled court following a public shaming by elderly veterans. Probably seemed like a good idea when she was drunk.
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Not that I agree with the acts, but it sounds like most of Britain runs around drunk, urinating, vomiting and doing disgusting stuff in public. Pretty amazing that she's being labeled Britain's most disgusting woman and vilified worldwide. I notice the man is still unidentified. I'm sure men never urinate on whatever they feel like at any given moment.
The big question is...does every square inch of Britain need to be videotaped round the clock?
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Some here joke that they might be safer if they lived in Baghdad. The numbers bear them out.
In Iraq, a country with about the same population as Venezuela, there were 4,644 civilian deaths from violence in 2009, according to Iraq Body Count; in Venezuela that year, the number of murders climbed above 16,000.
Even Mexico's infamous drug war has claimed fewer lives.
Venezuelans have absorbed such grim statistics for years. Those with means have hidden their homes behind walls and hired foreign security experts to advise them on how to avoid kidnappings and killings. And rich and poor alike have resigned themselves to living with a murder rate that the opposition says remains low on the list of the government's priorities.
Then a front-page photograph in a leading independent newspaper -- and the government's reaction -- shocked the nation, and rekindled public debate over violent crime.
The photo in the paper, El Nacional, is unquestionably gory. It shows a dozen homicide victims strewn about the city's largest morgue, just a sample of an unusually anarchic two-day stretch in this already perilous place.
While many Venezuelans saw the picture as a sober reminder of their vulnerability and a chance to effect change, the government took a different stand.
A court ordered the paper to stop publishing images of violence, as if that would quiet growing questions about why the government -- despite proclaiming a revolution that heralds socialist values -- has been unable to close the dangerous gap between rich and poor and make the country's streets safer.
"Forget the hundreds of children who die from stray bullets, or the kids who go through the horror of seeing their parents or older siblings killed before their eyes," said Teodoro Petkoff, the editor of another newspaper here, mocking the court's decision in a front-page editorial. "Their problem is the photograph."
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I had various OLD DREAMS/VISIONS on this incident but I'm still not sure or certain after all these many years what it means to my personal life.
CLOSEST RELEVANCE > BATTLESHIP OKLAHOMA + "PERFECT STORM" MOVIE [Capt. George Clooney deliberat goes down wid his ship]; + HUGO "US HAS NUCLEAR EARTHQUAKE BOMBS" CHAVEZ = As it geopol retreats across the Pacific, US may intentionally destroy strategic Pacific islands to deny utility to its enemies. EQUAKE NUKES to cause the islands to collapse upon themselves.
[BATTLESHIP OKLAHOMA + "TITANIC" Theme by Celine Cion here].
A Venezuelan soldier opened fire on his fellow soldiers at Fort Tiuna, the main military base in Caracas. An army captain and a lieutenant were killed, and several other troops were wounded. Bolivar Battalion member Jefferson Vasquez killed Capt. Miguel Rosales and Lt. Alfredo Ruiz, and then fled from the fort. He has yet to be captured.
The search for Vasquez caused traffic jams on the highway leading from Caracas to the western part of the country, as well as on the highway that leads to Los Teques, the capital of Miranda state.
"Nothing to worry about. Just a bit of workplace violence. Let's keep it moving."
WASHINGTON Russian journalist Ilya Barabanov, who has worked to expose official corruption, was awarded the Peter Mackler Award honoring courageous journalism Sunday, press freedom group Reporters Without Borders announced.
Mr. Barabanov displays the kind of moral courage that few journalists in the US and western Europe seem to have. Certainly no one at the NYT or the LA Times is going to win this anytime soon.
Barabanov is deputy editor of The New Times, an opposition news weekly in Russia which has been searched and sued by the Russian government after critical stories.
Barabanov, a young journalist, has displayed enormous courage in standing up for journalistic independence and the Russian peoples right to free and balanced news. These character traits are what the Peter Mackler Award seeks to encourage and reward, said award director Camille Mackler.
Reporters Without Borders, which administers the prize, said Barabanovs nomination comes amid growing accusations of Internet censorship and media intimidation in Russia.
We are delighted to know this award goes to Ilya Barabanov, Jean-Francois Julliard, Secretary General of Reporters Without Borders, said. Being a journalist in Russia is one of the toughest jobs around.
Russian journalists need to be supported and recognized worldwide for the work they do. Ilyas talent, courage and persistence are essential to Russian journalism, he said.
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it's not just a question of courage though that is to be applauded.
for reporters the hardest thing is to get anybody to actually leak verifiable information
the problem is that whistleblowers get hunted down.
In Russia they get killed.
In Australia they lose their jobs and the might of the bureaucracy is arrayed against them. Their life is totally destroyed so they might as well be dead.
In the US and UK I don't know what happens but I suspect it is similar to Australia - except in the US if you can save the Government cash you get a slice of it, which is one encouragement.
The hunting down of whistleblowers is why Wikileaks is important.
The system is set up to silence whistleblowers and it doesn't matter how many courageous journalists you have out there they are not going to be able to tell you anything when people are too scared to talk.
We need Wikileaks because it encrypts and protects sources.
Journalists then use Wikileaks to source stories that would otherwise never be known.
As a democracy we are dependant on being INFORMED
otherwise we are not really free to make decisions.
Plenty of people round these parts hate Julian Assange of wikileaks but just look what is happening to him
Someone who makes it easy for whistleblowers - look at the dirty tricks they fight with. Accused him of rape of course. Perfect. Trump up a charge.
Western nations are becoming increasingly intolerant of dissenting voices and whistleblowers and it is up to us to grasp the nettle of keeping freedom of the media and the freedom to speak out without fear of reprisals.
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The problem with journalists is that they twist the facts of the story to suit their political biases. Worse, they refuse to report inconvenient truths. The founder of Wikileaks is on record saying he hates America and I'm not surprised he's using his project to harm us. If someone came to him with top-secret documents that would harm Obama, would they be published? Highly doubtful.
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Look at it from a reporter's point of view. They have to produce a story, film or print, each work day. They don't, as a rule, have time to do a lot of investigative work against an uncooperative government. So what do they do? They cultivate sources that feed them stories.
If you are in the government, you want to shape the message. So you feed stories to your contacts in the media that support that message.
We should call the western news by its proper name; propaganda.
Hats off to Barabanov for having the courage to speak truth to power. This is clearly a guy who has reached his f'it limit.
I agree with the statement that no reporter at the NYT or LAT is likely to win this award anytime soon.
The purpose of the IG in any government organization is root out self-nominating trouble makers and punish them. Duh.
Regarding Wikileaks, there are plenty of unclassified or properly sanitized (to protect sources and methods) stories that need to be told. F'em.
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As a democracy we are dependant on being INFORMED otherwise we are not really free to make decisions.
anon1,
I can appreciate the spirit of your statement but take some exceptions. The first is your casual reference to a democracy. Hugo Chavezs concept of freedom of the press is anything but free. Yet, Venezuela by definition is a functioning pluralistic democracy. Also, freedom of the press results from a society governed by liberty not the converse. And lets pray that the future of journalism is not dependant upon the likes of Wikileaks. Believe it or not, it is the obligation of the goverment of the freest country in the history of the world to maintain some secrets to protect those liberties.
Synopsis: Both the current ruling party, PM Julia Gillard's Labor Party, and the opposition coalition of the Liberal and National Parties are scrambling to get the few independents that would give them control of the lower chamber of the Aussie government.
With about 80 percent of the vote counted, Labor has 70 seats and the Liberal Party-led coalition has 72. There are 150 seats at stake. A hung parliament is a likely outcome.
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"A hung parliament is a likely outcome."
I'm jealous. I wish we could hang Congress.
I'd chip in on the rope....
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it's tremendous. First time since 1940 and *great* for democracy
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Looks like Australian leftist trolls have made it here.
This is going to result in the independents having a totally unwarranted influence.
Bob Katter is a nutcase. OK he's a nice redneck nutcase whose kids all have rifles under their beds. Still a nutter.
Tony Windsor is a silly old fart who is as thick as two short planks.
Rob Oakeshott is a global warming believer who is a plain nasty piece of work.
All three are agrarian socialists.
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The federal financial regulators in the US have shuttered eight more banks, bringing the number of banks failed this year to 118 amid an ongoing financial crisis.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC ) on Friday seized eight banks including four California-based banks, a community bank in Chicago, and banks in Florida and Virginia.
In California, bank takeovers hit Sonoma Valley Bank of Sonoma, Los Padres Bank, Solvang, Butte Community Bank, Chico, and Pacific State Bank, Stockton, while in Chicago ShoreBank, well-known for its social activism was shuttered, the Associated Press reported.
The ShoreBank is the one with all the connections to the Obamas, the black Chicago community, Hizzoner's pals, etc.
Imperial Savings and Loan Association of Martinsville, Virginia; Community National Bank At Bartow, Bartow, Florida; and Independent National Bank, Ocala, Florida, were taken over by the FDIC on Saturday.
The FDIC estimates the eight banks seized Friday will cost the deposit insurance fund USD 479.4 million.
During the financial crisis the US set up a USD 700 billion relief program to bailout its ailing financial centers. The Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, has failed to bring the financial meltdown to an end or even stabilize the US reeling financial system.
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The FDIC projects fund failure costs for the five-year period 2010-2014 to be approximately $60
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The scenes have outraged Pakistanis, some who are questioning how their society could passively watch the shocking killings without intervening. It's one of those "muslims can't interfere with the activities of holier muslims" thingies.
The News, an English-language daily newspaper, wrote: 'Is this what we are? Savages? So utterly bereft of a speck of humanity that a crowd of ordinary men are passive spectators to public murder?' Uh, what was the middle option again?
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The News, an English-language daily newspaper, wrote: 'Is this what we are? Savages? So utterly bereft of a speck of humanity that a crowd of ordinary men are passive spectators to public murder?'
[Dawn] Sialkot's District Police Officer Waqar Ahmad Chohan was detained for 30 days on Sunday in connection with the lynching of two brothers by a mob.
According to an executive order issued by the Sialkot District Coordination Officer, Mr Chohan would be detained by police and kept in police custody for 30.
A senior provincial government official, privy to the development, told Dawn that movements of Mr Chohan, who is living in his official residence in Sialkot, were being monitored by officials in plainclothes and his activities would be watched till the conclusion of two high-level inquires being held by the director general of anti-corruption and a senior police officer.
He said the step had been taken to prevent him from escape in case inquiries found him guilty.
He said the DPO could not be arrested unless sufficient evidence about his involvement was produced.
Citing some reports and witnesses' accounts, the official said that the former DPO was at the place where two youngsters were clubbed to death after the suspects had declared them robbers. The official said that a probe committee headed by Punjab CID Mushtaq Sokhaira would submit its report within a week.
The official criticised the Gujranwala Regional Police Officer for introducing a culture of violence -- killing criminals in encounters and parading their bodies in public -- which had pushed people to take law into their own hands.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif is reported to have requested Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to suspend Mr Chohan for being responsible for the incident.
There are reports that the provincial chief secretary has written to the federal secretary establishment for Mr Chohan's suspension.
Provincial Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, when contacted, said all the people, the administration personnel and locals who were directly or indirectly involved in the incident, would be brought to justice.
Some TV channels reported on Sunday night that the federal government had suspended Mr Chohan.
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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.
Authorities evacuated tens of thousands from flood-threatened areas in the south on Sunday, but insisted that the 2.5 million people of Hyderabad were safe from the country's worst-ever floods.
A Venezuelan soldier opened fire on his fellow soldiers at Fort Tiuna, the main military base in Caracas. An army captain and a lieutenant were killed, and several other troops were wounded. Bolivar Battalion member Jefferson Vasquez killed Capt. Miguel Rosales and Lt. Alfredo Ruiz, and then fled from the fort. He has yet to be captured. 
The scenes have outraged Pakistanis, some who are questioning how their society could passively watch the shocking killings without intervening.
