Police in New Jersey said they jugged a beauzeau accused of mistakenly sending a text message to a Officer Friendly seeking a buyer for some poison hemp. "Hmm... is that 6817 or 6917?"
Andover Township Police said Lt. Eric Danielson, who had recently purchased a new Handy, as the Germans say, with a new number, received a text message around 7:45 p.m. Friday from a person who offered a quarter pound of marijuana for sale, the Daily Record, Parsippany, N.J., reported Wednesday.
Sgt. John-Paul Beebe said Danielson arranged to meet with the sender of the message, later identified as Nicholas Delear Jr., 33, and an undercover police officer met with Delear in the parking lot of a pizzeria in Sparta at 8:15 p.m.
Delear sensed that something was off and attempted the leave the area before completing the deal, but he was stopped by a Sparta Police vehicle a short time later.
Beebe said the suspect denied any knowledge of the texts and refused consent for officers to search his car, so a K-9 unit, though not the Doctor Who variety, was dispatched. Danielson arrived on the scene and was able to confirm the text messages he received came from Delear's number.
The K-9 unit indicated the presence of drugs in the vehicle and a Superior Court judge granted a telephonic search warrant.
Police said they found more than an ounce of marijuana in the car along with a scale and six hundred twenty pix of George Washington. "Book him."
Delear was read his rights on charges of possession with intent to distribute mary jane, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a controlled dangerous substance in a motor vehicle and several motor vehicle infractions.
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In a related proe-a-dope story, today's Seattle Times carries the narrative of a SENIOR REPORTER who was pulled over in Idaho after ( allegedly) crossing the center line. Officer Friendly didn't say it in so many words, but he was looking for impaired drivers, and after the pot bill passed out here, and our SENIOR REPORTER'S car carried WA tags, why he just (profiled) put 2 and 2 together......
[An Nahar] Moroccan police have enjugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! a teenage boy and girl for posting a photo on Facebook of them kissing, with the incident provoking a slew of copycats, a rights organization said Friday.
"It involves a teenage boy and his girlfriend. They were arrested on Thursday for violating public decency by posting a photo of them kissing" in the northeastern town of Nador, said Chakib al-Khayari, president of the Rif Association of Human Rights.
The photograph was taken outside the high school where the two are students.
The young couple are being held in the juvenile detention centre in Nador, where a sit-in has begun to demand their release, Khayari said.
The incident has caused such a stir among young people that a number of other couples have posted similar photos on their Facebook pages.
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The Palestinian Authoritys supreme religious decrees council issued a fatwa this week that said Internet dating was permissible under certain circumstances in the West Bank.
The ruling Tuesday contradicts decrees issued by more conservative Islamic scholars and was rejected by the religious establishment in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Supreme Ifta Council acknowledged in its fatwa that social interaction via the Internet has become widespread and said, It is impossible to avoid it or ban it completely.
The decree said online communications between members of the opposite sex were permissible, provided they were for the purpose of marriage, and provided that both parties abide by codes of ethics and religious directives.
It went on to specify that such interaction must be done with the knowledge of both families and shouldnt happen in a closed room. Women shouldnt provide details about their appearance or share photographs of themselves, it said.
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In game, of course. They're not gonna rip me from a session of Arma 2 just coz a civilian ran in front of my line of fire in game, not alive anyway.
The International Committee of the Red Thingy Cross have called for video games to punish crimes committed in battle by adhering to real-life international war conventions. Here we go.
"The ICRC believes there is a place for international humanitarian law (the law of armed conflict) in video games," the organization that works worldwide to provide humanitarian help for people caught in war zones said in a statement on their website. Well, that's one vote. What say game developers? Anyone?
"The ICRC is concerned that certain game scenarios could lead to a trivialization of serious violations of the law of armed conflict," they added. "The fear is that eventually such illegal acts will be perceived as acceptable behavior." This is where the short attention span part comes into play. The Red Thingy Cross wants game developers to destroy their own product and wreck their customer base for something that doesn't even happen in meatspace.
Bernard Barrett, a spokesman for the organization said they were not trying to censor games or spoil people's fun, but rather, "make clear that there are rules in battle and that certain acts are illegal." At the top of the list of illegal acts is the supression of free press, but then, when the United States' taxing authority is used to suppress free speech, you can see where the ICRC gets a little frisky.
Shooting civilians, torture, attacking ambulances and killing prisoners are all aspects in video games that they want to address, he explained. I consider it addressed. Now, please, go f*ck yourself.
He added that they were not concerned with fantasy games, but those that mimic situations that might be seen in current armed conflicts, known as "first person shooters" although he declined to name specific titles. He doesn't need to name titles. They are the best sellers.
"We're not asking for censorship, we don't want to take any elements out of the games," he said. "We're not trying to make games boring or preachy, but we're hoping that the ones that offer a realistic portrayal of a modern battlefield can incorporate some sort of reward or penalties depending on whether they follow the basic rules of armed conflict. He is asking for censorship, and the nature of the Red Thingy Cross is that they are preachy. They are in the business of preachy. They make their money by being preachy.
It gives them something to do when blankets and bottled water for the survivors aren't immediately needed. Idle hands are the Devil's playground, 'tis said.
"We are not talking about censorship or banning anything," he added. "It's just making it more realistic, the same way the military has rules on the battlefield, then gamers have the same rules." That's the second time he is quoted saying they're not into censorship. He does protest too much.
While concern over the influence of violence in video games is shared by many, researchers have not established a definitive link. Read: They haven't come up with a creative way or diagnosis, yet. Give the f*ckers time.
Currently, the American Psychological Association is reviewing its 2005 statement that said there "appears to be evidence" of this; a coalition of 228 of the society's members this week urged a revision, arguing that, based on the current research, some assertions in the statement "cannot be supported."
Activision, the producers of the video game Call of Duty, and Rockstar, the producers of Grand Theft Auto, did not respond to a request for comment by NBC News at the time this article was published. So, they did name the games, on backgroud. Dummy, you're not s'posed to tip your hand. Kids today!
Barrett explained that the ICRC were already working with production companies to incorporate these rules into games and others who they had not contacted, had also incorporated some of them into their products.
"We would be keen to work with others," he said. That's one side.
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Not much above a mute from the Red Thingy about American compliance (and beyond) with the conventions in a real war while the usual anti-American wormtongues spewed their lies. That same mute could be heard in the denunciations of clear and repeated violations by AQ, the Taliban, etc. Deal with the real world jerks. Or is this a signal that you've become just another pompous self important bureaucracy desperately seeking cred by playing to theater rather than actually, you know, doing something you claim you exist for.
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for a per-game fee, I'm sure they wouldn't have a problem. *spit*
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They're not gonna rip me from a session of Arma 2 just coz a civilian ran in front of my line of fire in game, not alive anyway.
Well obviously they will have to monitor your game in-time. And Mario deals with kidnapping civilians. And Pac-Man is paganism where a player can destroy civilians in their afterlife. Duck Hunt, totally off limits.
offer a realistic portrayal of a modern battlefield can incorporate some sort of reward or penalties depending on whether they follow the basic rules of armed conflict.
Then I wuz playing Call of Allen the other day, the Mall Level. Bumper-L1+Z hangs a civi by a hook, and the melee button with the mushu boost will put a half-dozen knives into a child.
I wuz playing Empire Total War and destroyed a place of worship and a university. And I liked it, so did the population, whaaa haa haa haa! Booogy booogy boogie.
Exit question: WH2K, if I destroy a hive of orcs, does it make me a war criminal, a racist, homophobic, or all of the above?
Nevermind, el Prez told me to reject the voices of tyranny.
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That new taco place commercial featuring the next gen of video gaming is obviously racist against alien robots and their right to culture. Also, the lack of minorities and its foux latin cuisine makes Yum! foods criminally liable for war crimes.
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A great fictional story would be the government tracking the best video game players. And then high jacking the game and substituting real war battle action and have the gamers killing actual enemy.
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They should do their own game.Weapons of choice: hand wringing, pontificating, the strongly worded letter and, the Ultimate Weapon, Carla DelPonte.
Know what game is a hate crime? Burger Time. Running around making unhealthy burgers while violently smashing other characters not only promotes obesity and racism, because sandwichs such as peanut butter and jelly are the works of flesh eating chauvinist white males, but that there are people starving in China this game promotes glutteny and waste.
Next I will approach how having a successful budget in Sim City teaches terrorist tactics and encourages holding guns to peoples' heads.
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The game companies can't do this. You can't say that playing games has no cause/effect on real world violence and then say that you think learning about war crimes in the game would help folks be less likely to commit them in the real world. A game is a game and folks act differently while playing because they understand this.
If they did what the REd Cross wants every 13 year old would race to get the most genocide points.
[An Nahar] Students at a Hungarian university attended class wearing only their underwear Thursday to protest against a dress code ordered by the college head.
In a letter to students on Wednesday, the rector of Kaposvar University in southwest Hungary wrote that a conservative dress code -- dark suits and shoes for men; jacket, blouse and trousers or long skirts for women -- must be adhered to when attending classes or exams.
"From October 1, there is also no place in the university for mini-skirts, flip-flops, heavy make-up, inappropriate fashion accessories, or unkempt fingernails and hair," the letter continued.
The rector did make an allowance for lighter clothing during warm summer days, prompting some students to make the underwear protest.
"We were appropriately dressed but the class room was so warm we removed some clothing as is permitted," said one student.
The protestors included male and female students.
Students plan to wear flip-flops and beach towels at another protest on October 7.
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[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Most people on finding out that they've become rich beyond their wildest dreams would immediately splash out on a selfish purchase - a yacht, a mansion, maybe even a private island.
But when Reggie Theus discovered he had become a trillionaire thanks to a bank error, he decided to make life easy for his fellow Americans, and offered to pay of the national debt.
Sadly for the country, the bank realised its mistake, and soon took away the East Texan's $4,000,000,000,000 - dashing the States' hope of an easy fix for their financial crisis.
Mr Theus, a restaurant manager, didn't throw caution to the wind and quit his job, thankfully - he still turned up and was busy waiting on tables and co-ordinating his staff.
He told KLTV: 'I was definitely surprised when I looked in my account and saw that much money in there.
'I looked it up and there's never been a trillionaire before.'
The bank, which asked their customer not to identify them, had made the error during an online banking update.
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Doubly bad.
1/ they don't understand wrapping in binary (2^42 mantissa, 18bit exponent?)
2/ MUCH WORSE! They didn't check to make sure the balances balanced! This money was created ex-nihilo which shouldn't be possible.
Ethan Whittington, of Midlothian, Va., traveled to Boston this week to meet with Glen James and give him the good news of his financial windfall.
James was hailed as a hero last month after he turned in a backpack he found at a mall. It contained more than $2,000 in cash and nearly $40,000 in traveler's checks.
When Whittington, 28, read about James' honesty, he started a fund on the crowd-funding website gofundme.com. Since then, more than 6,000 donations have come in from people around the globe.
The honesty of a homeless man who handed a lost, cash-filled backpack over to police has inspired more than $150,000 in donations to a fund set up in his honor, the fund's organizer said Friday.
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Man sets himself on fire at National Mall, one witness says his accomplice filmed the entire ordeal: report
Police responded to reports of a self-immolation at the National Mall on Friday. The man was rushed to a local hospital by helicopter after using fuel to set himself ablaze near the National Gallery of Art in the middle of the mall, which remains closed due to the U.S. government shutdown. Motive? Will he be arrested for going onto forbidden Federal Shutdown property?
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"If it weren't for those Tea Bagger Rethuglikkkans there would have been a trained Federal Employee on hand with a fire extinguisher, CPR skills, a FAIL slip, and a new phone, right there next to him. This injury rest squarely on the shoulders of Rush and Palin and any klan racists who think we should be broadcasting football R&R to our troops instead of training Al-Qaeda. This just in, I'm feeling a tingle."
The year 2014 will be a big one for printed guns, says Kurt Hofmann. The reason is that certain 3D printing patents expire, and that will mean 3D printers will become much cheaper to buy. No wonder the left wants Congress in 2014. Nothing like destroying the 1st and 2nd Amendments with legislation.
According to the Wall Street Journal, last month the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agency proposed a rule to eliminate the trusts requirement by requiring trusts members assembled to purchase automatic fire arms and accessories such as suppressors to be subject to background checks. Nothing to be done about this, regardless of when the comment period has ended. RKBA will be wrecked by Washington DC by any means the left can.
A writer for a California student newspaper is all happy Tom Clancy has died. You know, white guys and guns, NRA, etc.
Finally, the reason why we have a 2nd Amendment is not for the eating of yummy deer, killing criminals, self defense or being a "law abiding citizen". It is because of tyranny.
Last week's thread winner in last week's TWIG report from Matt:
The undisputed leader of the crew, George Washington his own self, was a consummate gentleman, but crossed the Delaware on Christmas so that his men could bayonet foreign mercenaries in their sleep, hanged Major Andre instead of at least giving the poor kid the honor of a firing squad, and in general did everything fair or foul to drive the enemy into the sea. If he were somehow among us today and you could explain to him what a Warthog could do to infantry, his only regret would be not having a couple at the Battle of Brooklyn. Gun-fearing these folks were not. Hence, the Second Amendment.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Pistol ammunition prices were mixed to higher, while rifle ammunition was steady to lower.
Prices for used weapons for private sale were mixed, with rifles slightly lower in price and pistols slightly higher.
Pistol Ammo
.45 caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: +.02 each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Selway Armory, BVAC (CPRN), .36 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Selway Armory, BVAC (CPRN), .34 per round
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: +.01 each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: BangIt Ammo, Precision One, reloaded, .30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, reloaded, .26 per round (w/ ammo can) (- .01 each from last week)
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Cabelas, Herter's Select Grade, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Selway Armory, CBVAC reloaded, .24 per round (-.01 each from last week)
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: -.08 each (-.12 total in two weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Armscor, .38 per round
Cheapest, Bulk, 250 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Fiocchi, .41 per round ( -.37 each from last week (!))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: -.05 each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire USA, Monarch, steel cased, .30 per round
Cheapest Bulk 1,000 rounds: Cabelas, Herters 223, .28 per round (-.05 each in two weeks)
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: -.06 each (-.12 over two weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo Supply Warehouse, Prvi Partizan, brass, .61 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000 rounds: Sportsman Guide, MFS, .56 per round
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (Two Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo Supply Warehouse, Wolf Polyformance, steel core and case, .26 per round
Cheapest, Bulk, 1000 rounds: BuyAmmoDirect, SADU (Romania), lead core, steel case, .25 per round
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (Two weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Fast, Eley Target, .10 per round
Cheapest, Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammo Supply Warehouse, Armscor, .14 per round
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average price: $730 Last Week Avg: $815
California: Delton Inc: $650
Texas: DPMS Sportical: $650
New York: New Frontier: $749
Virgina: New Frontier: $750
Florida: Mixed Build: $850
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,230 Last Week Avg: $1,363
California: Sig Sauer M716 Patrol: $1,400
Texas: DPMS Oracle: $1,050
New York: Core 30 MOE: $1,200 (Same Gun)
Virginia: Rock River Arms LR-308: $1,300
Florida: Smith & Wesson M&P: $1,200
.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $522 Last Week Avg: $583
California: Rock Island Armory: $475 (Same gun)
Texas: Springfield: $600
New York: Rock Island Armory: $385
Virginia: Rock island Armory: $650 (Same Gun)
Florida: Colt regent (SS): $500
9mm Beretta 92FS Semiautomatic Average Price: $519 Last Week Avg: $495
California: $550 (Same Gun)
Texas: $475 (Same Gun)
New York: None
Virginia: $550
Florida: $500
.40 caliber S&W (Glock and other semiautomatic) Average Price: $481 Last Week Avg: $455
California: Sig Sauer SP2022: $550
Texas: Glock 27: $500
New York: Glock 22: $400
Virginia: Glock 23: $545
Florida: Glock 23: $410
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
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The year 2014 will be a big one for printed guns,
I am more than amused over the 3D printed guns hysteria. People can make guns? Oh noes! Unwad your undies, my poor frightened dears. People have been making guns since Colonial times, long before the advent of 3d printers or even 5-axis milling machines. Hell, given some basic handtools, you could walk out of the local Home Depot with the fixings for a do-it-yourself zip gun. Just a question of how fancy (or safe!) you want it to be.
And yeah, what Mr. Covert said about the 2nd Amendment as a defense against tyranny. For a bunch of dead white guys, the Founding Fathers had it going on.
[LOSANGELES.CBSLOCAL] A high school principal has apologized for forcing a 16-year-old student to remove her National Rifle Association shirt last month. Heard from the lawyers, huh? Can you think of another reason why they'd apologize?
Haley Bullwinkle, a sophomore at Canyon High School, said she was asked to change or face suspension because her T-shirt, which featured a buck, an American flag, and a hunter's silhouette, violated the school's dress code and promoted gun violence.
Bullwinkle's father, Jed, emailed the school's principal, Kimberly Fricker, about the situation.
Fricker responded saying that the gun on the shirt wasn't allowed.
The principal, however, had a change of heart on Thursday. Bullwinke's mother, Stephanie, said Fricker called her and said the teen can wear her shirt.
"She was very, very apologetic. She said they're definitely going to be talking to the staff, training their staff on what is appropriate conduct and what is not. And that (Haley) can wear the shirt, so very happy. It was nice to hear from her," said Stephanie.
"I feel a bit proud, actually, that I stood up for my rights, and I feel very happy at the outcome," Bullwinkle said.
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Bullwinkle's father, Jed, emailed the school's principal, Kimberly Fricker, about the situation.
With a can of bear spray on his hip and hearing aids in both ears, Lyle Ruterbories whistles and hums as he tends to this patch of wilderness along the Canadian border.
For 20 years, he has been the ambassador, manager, accountant, anthropologist, botanist, historian, traffic cop, landscaper, handyman and rules enforcer of Kintla Lake.
He still hauls gravel, mends fences and wields a chain saw to clear fallen trees from the road to the most remote encampment a visitor can drive to in Glacier National Park.
But he doesn't overdo it. He is, after all, 93 years old.
What's it like, a visitor asks, to be the oldest ranger in Glacier?
"Not in Glacier. The whole park system. The oldest working ranger in the whole park system. That includes everything," Ruterbories said.
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[An Nahar] Before many African migrants can even begin the perilous sea crossing to Europe they must pass through Libya, where they face exploitation or arrest by often brutal militias.
The feared drowning of some 300 African asylum-seekers in a shipwreck off Italia this week has underscored the dangers that desperate migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa face as they seek a better life in Europe.
But before many can even cast off, they must make their way across Libya, a vast desert country dominated by a patchwork of militias which emerged during the 2011 uprising that toppled Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens...
On Friday, a group of African immigrants gathered at a church in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... to mourn those who perished in Thursday's shipwreck, the worst-ever Mediterranean refugee boat disaster.
But they said it was unlikely to discourage future attempts.
"Despite the difficulties, the Africans here are not giving up on their dreams of going to Europe," said Albert Obmila, a Rwandan migrant.
"Life in Libya has become hell for Africans, who are at the mercy of the militias."
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[An Nahar] Fifty-four Tunisian pilgrims are refusing to leave Tunis airport and are demanding to be allowed to travel to Mecca after they were stopped with fake Gambia ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain... n passports, members of the group said Friday.
Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... allocates quotas to countries to limit the number of people making the annual Mohammedan pilgrimage, and there is a long waiting list in Tunisia, where such scams are relatively common.
The pilgrims, refusing to leave the airport's international zone since their papers were confiscated on Thursday, told Agence La Belle France Presse they had paid three Tunisian intermediaries thousands of euros for their Gambian passports and Saudi visas.
The interior ministry said the three suspects tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! '>were tossed into the calaboose.
"These are not crooks... For three years people have traveled like this!" said one of the pilgrims, Jamil Taher Hmaoui, adding he had paid 8,000 dinars (4,000 euros) for his passport and visa.
"We are starting a sit-in (in the airport) and we will stay here until we leave for Saudi Arabia," the elderly man bellowed.
Mourad Ben Meriem, the cousin of another pilgrim, complained that "another group had left on Tuesday" without any problem, without saying where they had acquired their travel documents.
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A plane carrying five Americans and a Panamanian on an anti-drug mission crashed Saturday in a remote part of northern Colombia, killing four of the occupants and seriously injuring the other two, authorities said.
Panamanian officials said three Americans and a Panamanian military officer were killed, and the other two Americans on board were injured. The Americans have not been identified. The crash took place in Choco province, 340 miles (550 kilometers) northwest of Colombia's capital, Bogota, near the border with Panama.
Gen. Nicasio de Jesus Martinez, commander of the Colombian army's Brigade IV whose troops traveled to the accident scene, ruled out the possibility that the plane was shot down by rebels still active in Colombia.
"There was no aggression, no impact ... it was a failure," said Martinez, adding that it was too soon to know if the crash was caused by mechanical failure, human error or the weather.
Farmers reported that the plane went down at about 1 a.m. local time in a rural part of the municipality of Acandi, said Acandi Mayor Gabriel Jose Olivares.
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Excitement for Twitter's coming IPO is running pretty high - so much so that some investors on Friday mistook the nearly worthless stock of long-dead electronics retailer Tweeter for the "tweeting" site, sending shares up more than 1,000 percent.
Tweeter Home Entertainment Group, a specialty consumer electronics company that went bankrupt in 2007, saw a its most active day of trading in more than six years even though it has nothing to do with the social media site.
The stock, which trades over the counter, closed Thursday at a price of less than a penny a share, and Friday hit a high of 15 cents a share on Friday, before paring gains to trade at 5 cents, a 669 percent rise. More than 11.7 million shares had traded by midday.
The volume was the most active trading day for the company since May 10, 2007, when 13.05 million shares were traded and the company reported quarterly results and said it may choose to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
To say the stock is lightly traded in normal times is an understatement, sometimes going several days without even trading 1,000 shares over the course of a full session.
However, in the last two weeks Tweeter shares' price and volume ticked higher following Twitter's announcement on September 12 that it had confidentially filed for an initial public offering.
The moves on those days were not nearly as extreme, with the stock reaching a high of 3.5 cents, and seeing volume between 200,000 and 1.1 million shares, depending on the day.
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It's hard to figure out if Wall Street is an organized crime ring or simply a band of lunatics.
[Al Ahram] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hinted he would be willing to run for president in next year's elections, a move analysts have been expecting of the conservative premier who is approaching his term limit.
"For the moment, nothing is certain," Erdogan said in a television interview late on Thursday, when asked whether he would run in the August 2014 poll, the first in which the head of state will be elected by voters instead of parliament.
"I will perform whatever function my party sets out for me," he said, referring to the Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Under party rules, Erdogan will not be able to hold on to the premiership after legislative elections in 2015. The party limits its members to three successive mandates and Erodgan, who has been premier since 2003, is currently in his third term as prime minister.
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With the partial shutdown entering its fifth day, the GOP-run House passed a bill Saturday that would make sure the furloughed workers get paid for not working. The White House backs the bill and the Senate was expected to OK it, too, but the timing was unclear.
The 407-0 vote in the House was uniquely bipartisan, even as lawmakers continued their partisan rhetoric.
Making the shutdown less painful for 800,000 federal employees will encourage Congress and the White House to extend it even longer, driving up the cost, said Steve Ellis of Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Ellis said "essential" federal workers who stayed on the job "will feel like suckers because they've been working while the others essentially are getting paid vacations.
I wouldn't say I feel like a "sucker" - it's more like betrayed.
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Should have just classified them as 'illegals' to get the same effect. However, 800,000 federal employees count when you're cooking the books on tax revenue coming in. They make up the difference with the volume. /sarc off
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I wouldn't say I feel like a "sucker" - it's more like betrayed.
Yeah. Passed the House unanimously? Not one objected to the unfairness? I was feeling lucky and proud that my agency has enough in reserve to keep us working and getting paid through the end of October. Although an unpaid vacation would've been nice. A PAID vacation?!?! What a racket. Can't believe I'm saying this, but I hope the unions at better-managed agencies like mine make a stink.
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Actually this is probably good because the closure can now go longer without stories of starving employees working on everyone's guilt. The nation can see how well it runs on minimal government. Heck we even have enough to deny folks from places they have every reasonable right to go and that's with the essential people so clearly the non-essential numbers were not a complete list.
[Dawn] The organising committee of Awami National Party (ANP) Friday expelled its big shot Senator Azam Khan Hoti for what it called levelling "baseless" allegations and using foul language against the big shotship of the party, including Asfandyar Wali Khan.
According to a press statement issued from Bacha Khan Markaz, central office of the ANP, his basic party membership has been revoked.
Reacting to the decision, Azam Khan Hoti said he would fight back and expose the "incompetent and mindless party leadership."
The party's provincial organizing committee, headed by Bashir Khan Matta, terminated Azam Hoti from the party for what its says violating the party discipline. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... it is now an open secret that his outburst against the ANP chief Afadnyar Wali Khan and demand for party chief's resignation were the main causes for his unceremonious ouster.
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[SCIENCEMAG.ORG] A spoof paper concocted by Science reveals little or no scrutiny at many open-access journals. That's what happens when the science is settled.
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So, liberal politicsa and government money have corrupted science? Something we conservatives and libertarians have been complaining about for years.
[Dawn] According to a story published in The Guardian, Iran has passed a law, which if approved by the Guardian Council, would allow men to marry their adopted daughters once the child reaches the age of 13.
Human rights activists have expressed dismay that the bill opens the door for men to use the law to marry their own adopted daughters if the court rules that it's in the interest of the child.
In Iran girls under the age of 13 can still be legally married, but it requires a judge's approval.
Shadi Sadr, a human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. lawyer with the London-based group Justice for Iran said that law essentially legitimises child abuse.
"This bill is legalising paedophilia," she said. "It's not part of the Iranian culture to marry your adopted child. Obviously incest exists in Iran more or less as it happens in other countries across the world, but this bill is legalising paedophilia and is endangering our children and normalising this crime in our culture."
Iranian officials are arguing that the law has been enacted out of practicality since adopted girls are forced to wear a hijab around their fathers.
'With this bill, you can be a pedophile and get your bait in the pretext of adopting children,' Sadr said.
Whether or not the law will get the final stamp of approval by the country's Governing Council is still a question but the outcry among activists has been vocal.
Underage marriage is a real concern in the country where it has been reported that there were 42,000 children between the ages of 10 and 14 who were married in 2010.
In 2012, the Legal Affairs Committee of the Majles (the Iranian parliament) told the press that they regard the law that prohibits girls below the age of 10 from being married off as "un-Islamic and illegal."
In August of this year, a court in India's capital stirred up controversy when it said marriage with an underage girl was permissible under Indian Law.
The city court in Delhi said that provisions of the the Protection of Children from Sexual Offence (POCSO) Act suggested that where a physical relationship is undertaken with a minor girl -- which is neither sexual assault nor has consent been taken by unlawful means -- no offence can said to have been committed.
According to a Times of India report, the court made these observations while acquitting a 22-year-old native of West Bengal of charges of kidnapping and raping a 15-year-old girl, with whom he had eloped and later married.
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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.
Police in New Jersey said they 
[An Nahar] Moroccan police have 
The Palestinian Authoritys supreme religious decrees council issued a fatwa this week that said Internet dating was permissible under certain circumstances in the West Bank.
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Most people on finding out that they've become rich beyond their wildest dreams would immediately splash out on a selfish purchase - a yacht, a mansion, maybe even a private island.
[Dawn] The organising committee of Awami National Party (ANP) Friday expelled its 
[Dawn] According to a story published in The Guardian, Iran has passed a law, which if approved by the Guardian Council, would allow men to marry their adopted daughters once the child reaches the age of 13.
