Moved to non WoT not clear at present where it belongs
A man armed with handguns and a rifle was shot on Saturday night as he wielded the weapons inside a Pennsylvania Walmart, according to media reports.
The incident took place at a Walmart in Stroudsburg, just west of the Pennsylvania-New Jersey border, CNN reported, citing emergency officials.
It was not clear who shot the man, who was not identified. No one else was reported to have been injured.
Except Afghanistan and Somalia also are armed societies, as are the 'hoods of our inner cities. Perhaps it should be modified to something like An armed, sane society is a polite society.
Andrew Joseph Todd, 20, of Mount Bethel, armed with two handguns and a machete was shot and killed inside the East Stroudsburg Walmart on Saturday night, according to state police. Todd entered the Walmart, on Lincoln Avenue, at 10:11 p.m. and began threatening customers and pointing a gun at them, witnesses told state police.
Stroud Area Regional Police arrived minutes later and ordered Todd to drop his weapons. After he refused, SARP officers fired at the man, striking him in the upper chest. Police then did first aid on the man until EMS responded and took him to Pocono Medical Center where Monroe County Coroner Robert Allen pronounced him dead. State police said that no officers or customers were injured in the incident. At about 7:30 a.m. (EDT) Sunday, his name was released.
[Witnesses] described the man as a white male, about 5 feet 7 inches tall, wearing a black baseball hat, a black bandanna over his face and a black shirt and jeans, and a machete hanging off his belt.
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Nut jobs and drug addicts, often a combination.
I like the way a lot of states do it. You can't plead an insanity defense if you show any signs of remorse or evidence of that you knew what you were doing was wrong. Here locally we've had a couple that tried insanity but the made the mistake of calling the cops after they did it. They are now serving very long sentences. Barely missed execution.
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Those who are liberal in their use of swear words are not the lazy and uneducated individuals they are often made out to be, a new study claims. Die fok ja se !
In fact, a well-stocked vocabulary of swear words is actually a healthy indicator of other verbal abilities.
Writing in the Language Sciences journal, US-based psychologists Kristin Jay and Timothy Jay, dismiss the long-held belief that swearing is a sign of inarticulateness.
Working with the "poverty of vocabulary" concept (the assumption that people swear because they lack the intellectual capacity to find another way to express themselves) their experiment aimed to find out whether those more fluent in the art of swearing are less fluent in other forms of vocabulary. Au contraire - I just want to add some emotional punch to what I have to say. It's a valid tool. I'm gonna use it.
Using students as research subjects the psychologists then asked their participants to say as many different swear words as they could think of in 60 seconds. Other non-swearing tasks such as saying as many animal names in the same space of time were also set to compare the findings.
The results found that volunteers who could produce the greatest quantity of swear words could also produce the most words in other categories. If the "poverty of vocabulary" explanation was true then the opposite should have been the case.
In the journal entry, the co-authors wrote: "We cannot help but judge others on the basis of their speech. Unfortunately, when it comes to taboo language, it is a common assumption that people who swear frequently are lazy, do not have an adequate vocabulary, lack education, or simply cannot control themselves.
"The overall finding of this set of studies, that taboo fluency is positively correlated with other measures of verbal fluency, undermines the POV [Poverty of Vocabulary] view of swearing. That is, a voluminous taboo lexicon may better be considered an indicator of healthy verbal abilities rather than a cover for their deficiencies.
"Speakers who use taboo words understand their general expressive content as well as nuanced distinctions that must be drawn to use slurs appropriately."
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Very few of those who habitually cuss have a well-stocked vocabulary of strong language, as far as I can tell, though perhaps they just choose not to reveal that to me. Up the Z-axis, most soft science studies turn out to be worthless, so I'm not going to worry overmuch about the claims made for this one.
This may have consequences. The spat between Somaliland and Puntland is over the Sool region, which is pretty much a wasteland except for the fact that oil may lurk beneath. So all sides want their slice of the pie, and the other guy's slice as well. This could develop into an all-out military conflict -- or at least as "all out" as impoverished Somalis can get...
As Cain demonstrated on Abel's head, it only takes a rock and focussed intent.
GAROWE, Somalia -- Officials in Somalia’s Northeastern State of Puntland have condemned Somaliland’s pursuit of oil exploration activities, warning of grim consequences, Garowe Online reports.
Earlier on Wednesday, Puntland Information Minister Mohamud Hassan So’adde said that his administration is closely monitoring foreign companies conducting surveys in disputed Sool region, an area rich in acreages and straddles disputed territories between Puntland and breakaway Somaliland. He alleged that Somaliland is still acting in violation of international and domestic standards, questioning on its authority to exploit natural resources.
On Saturday, Puntland’s outcry intensified, with some MPs claiming that exploration activities were reported in Sool regional districts of Taleh and Hudun. Member of Parliament Ali Dhega Ade called survey of hydrocarbon fields ‘provocation’.
United Nations monitors have long expressed grave concerns over security threats emanating from western commercial oil exploration companies in northern Somalia.
Tensions have soured in Sool after foreign entities awarded contracts by Somaliland began explorations. The region is rife with opposing sides as Puntland, Somaliland and self-declared administration of Khaatumo are vying for broader military presence.
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[ARABNEWS] Horrified residents awoke Saturday to find at least 39 dead bodies scattered in the streets of the Burundi capital, Bujumbura, a day after coordinated armed assaults on three military installations.
Witnesses and journalists in Nyakabiga neighborhood, a hotspot of anti-government protests in recent months, reported seeing at least 20 corpses.
One witness described some of the victims as "kids" and said they had been shot execution-style "through the top of the skull."
"It is an absolute horror, those who committed this are war criminals," the witness said.
As the extent of the bloodshed became apparent government supporters held marches in Bujumbura and other towns to celebrate what the administration portrayed as its victory over the Death Eaters.
Demonstrators marching in the capital under police protection said they were "celebrating the victory of our valiant army over the enemy."
In the Rohero II neighborhood, close to Nyakabiga, at least five bodies -- also of young people -- were found on the main road, residents said.
In Musaga, close to a military college that was attacked by gunnies early on Friday, a local official said there were more than a dozen corpses in the streets. "I have counted 14 dead bodies with my own eyes," he said, blaming "soldiers and police" for the killings.
Several residents contacted by AFP accused the police of rounding up young men after Friday's attacks and executing them.
"Most of those killed are young heads of households who were at home... it's carnage, there is no other word for it," said an outraged resident of Nyakabiga.
Residents said the killings appeared to have taken place late Friday, hours after the early-morning assaults on the Ngagara base and a military training college, both in the capital, as well as on a base in Mujejuru, 40 kilometers (25 miles) away.
Burundian officials did not comment on the overnight killings but army front man Col. Gaspard Bratuza said on Twitter that a "final assessment" of Friday's operations was underway.
A senior police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , told AFP that all those killed were "Lions of Islam firing at the police and the army... who responded to defend themselves."
The officer said he expected the eventual toll from Friday's festivities would "far exceed" 40. Burundi's army has so far said that 12 gunnies were killed and another 21 captured.
A European diplomat in Bujumbura claimed the government was seeking to downplay the extent of the killings. "There are dozens of bodies in other protest districts, such as Mutakura and Cibitoke, but the authorities are trying to make them disappear," the diplomat said.
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[CNN] North Korean girl band Moranbang have canceled their shows in Beijing, China's National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) confirmed.
Famously handpicked by North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, they were originally scheduled to perform a week of shows in Beijing in a bid to improve relations between the two countries.
The all-female group, which sings synthesizer-backed paeans about the repressive leader's "warm heart" and "sweet smile," were scheduled to perform their first show on Saturday night.
But the NCPA, the venue for the shows, posted a statement on its official Weibo account saying the North Korean performances have been canceled "for a reason" and apologized to its audience.
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North Korean girl band Moranbang moron-bang
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Looks like the cancellation is due to a NOKOR-Beijing tiff ... ...
* SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST > BEIJING NO-SHOW OF NORTH KOREAN LEADER'S HAND-PICKED BAND POINTS TO DUPLICITOUS RIFT WID CHINA: ANALYSTS, on various bilateral issues including but not limited to KJU's claim of a NOKOR-dev "hydrogen bomb" + NOKOR-China political protocols [NOKOR wants respect].
Tokyo police have launched a unit to catch suspicious airborne drones. New rules on drone use came into effect on Thursday.
The unit was formed in response to the landing of a drone on the roof of the Prime Minister's Office last April.
The riot police unit is equipped with a large catcher drone. The multicopter device is about 1 meter in diameter and has a net that's 3 meters long and 2 meters wide. Police video shows the drone capturing a target in the net.Police officials say the team is the first of its kind in the country. Video at link.
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[Hoffpoo] MOSCOW, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday one of its warships, the destroyer Smetlivy, had been forced to fire warning shots at a Turkish vessel in the Aegean Sea to avoid a collision and that it had summoned the Turkish military attache over the incident.
It said in a statement that the Turkish fishing vessel, which it did not name, had failed to respond to earlier warnings, but had sharply changed course after shots were fired before passing within just over 500 meters of the warship.
The incident, which occurred on Sunday morning, is likely to heighten tensions between the two nations who are seriously at odds over Syria and the Turkish shooting down of a Russian military jet last month.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who called the downing of the plane a "stab in the back," has since imposed economic sanctions on Turkey as a retaliatory measure.
Earlier this month, Turkey complained to Russia over an incident in which a Russian sailor was pictured brandishing a rocket launcher on the deck of a naval ship passing through Istanbul.
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Meh-h-h, tell Vlad = VladVedev to call me later this month as per any new USN FON patrols vee China in the South China Sea.
The US Navy-DOD has to be extremely cautious or careful wid China now in East Asia.
As a reminder from time back, THE BEST TIME FOR CHINA, IRAN, + RUSSIA, OTHER? TO MAKE THEIR MIL MOVES + UNILATERALLY EXPAND THEIR CO-SUPERPOWER SPHERE(S) OF INFLUENCE, ETC. VEE THE
"WEAK/DECLINING" USA IS WHILE THE PERT, MSM-NET VERIFIED "WEAKEST/WORST" POTUS [Obama] IN US HISTORY OCCUPIES THE WHITE HOUSE.
The above pertains to thos whom believe the Bammer sincerely or honestly doesn't know what he's doing.
What more iff, as a dedicated Anti-US US Globalist POTUS in support of setting up US-led Anti-US OWG-NWO, THE BAMMER IS ******* UP INTENTIONALLY OR DELIBERATELY!?
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Those who are liberal in their use of swear words are not the lazy and uneducated individuals they are often made out to be, a new study claims. 
