[CBSNEWS] -A South Texas man was executed Wednesday forthe 1998 slaying of a 12-year-old boy whose blood the convicted killer said he drank after beating the seventh-grader with a pipe and slitting his throat.
Pablo Lucio Vasquez told police he was drunk and high when voices convinced him to kill David Cardenas in Donna, a Texas border town about 225 miles south of San Antonio. He also told detectives in a videotaped statement that he drank some of the boy's blood.
Asked by the warden if he had a final statement, Vasquez, 38, turned to look through a window where four of his victim's relatives watched and told them he was sorry.
"This is the only way that I can be forgiven," he said. "You got your justice right here."
Then as the lethal dose of pentobarbital began taking effect, he said he was a little dizzy. "See you on the other side," he said, raising his head off the gurney pillow and looking toward a window where two of his sisters, a brother-in-law and a cousin watched.
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[DAILYCALLER] Student government leaders at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga have demanded one of its members to resign over chalking a message on campus supporting Donald Trump.
In a message posted to Twitter early Wednesday morning, the incoming government slate called "Empower UTC" said they asked one of the participants in their coalition, Hailey Puckett, to leave student government over her pro-Trump artwork.
According to the message, Puckett’s values "do not line up with the pillars we’ve established ourselves on."
"We do not support bigotry or hatred or the messages spread by Donald Trump’s ignorance," the message from the student leaders said. "We do not support the mission of those who wish to spread that ignorance."
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According to the message, Puckett’s values "do not line up with the pillars we’ve established ourselves on."
Little doubt there. Perhaps 'Empower UTC' should follow Hollywood's lead and simply leave the country.
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Wow - you can't make this stuff up if you tried.
The 'Student Leaders' oppose Trump's alledged message of 'bigotry. hatred, and ignorance' by demonstrating their own. Well I guess if you can't debate the issues.
This is the equivalence of placing their fingers in their ears and singing NA_NA_NA_NA_NA!
Next up! You shouldn't be allowed to vote unless you vote Democrat!
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I remember the student government at schools I attended. They used to collect student government "fees" at the beginning of each semester. They had no power, of course, but they sure did run their mouths.
In the heart of Russia's Buddhist region of Kalmykia, Russian wrestler Said Osmanov kicked a statue of Buddha in the face and urinated on it while broadcasting live on the Periscope app. The incident happened inside a Buddhist temple in the capital Elista where the wrestler was staying for a tournament.
Word quickly spread causing outraged locals to descend on Osmanov’s hotel and forcing him out into the street. The wrestler was forced to his knees by the angry crowd who made him apologize. Once police arrived at the scene they took him into custody.
The wrestling tournament was suspended following his arrest.
Dagestan's leader, Abdusamadov Gamidov, flew to Kalmykia to personally apologize for the behavior of his countryman. In a joint statement with Kalmykia's governor Alexey Orlov, the two condemned the act and said that the wrestler will be criminally prosecuted.
Orlov said Osamnov committed "an unprecedented, blatant act of vandalism against our national, religious shrines," and added that people "who commit such actions do not have a nationality." They do have a religion, though.
outraged locals to descend on Osmanov’s hotel and forcing him out into the street. The wrestler was forced to his knees by the angry crowd who made him apologize.
Instead of killing him---because they are not Muz.
Russia is blocking the release of a confidential UN report showing that pro-government militias in Sudan’s Darfur region rake in $54 million per year in gold mining, it emerged on Tuesday.
The annual report by the panel of experts was presented in December to a UN sanctions committee, but it has not been made public due to objections from Russia, which has friendly ties with the Khartoum regime.
“We don’t want it to be released because we have been saying since the beginning that the experts are not behaving like they are told required to,” Russian Deputy Ambassador Petr Iliichev told reporters.
Iliichev argued that the panel’s mandate does not include monitoring “natural resources.”
"The experts are ignoring us! We're the ones with the expertise!"
The UN Security Council will on Wednesday discuss the crisis in Darfur, where a joint UN-African Union mission is struggling to help civilians caught up in fighting between rebels on one side and the Sudanese army and its affiliated militias on the other.
The conflict remains a divisive issue at the council, with the United States, Britain and France accusing the Sudanese regime of rights abuses while Russia and China defend Khartoum in the face of an insurgency.
In other words, more of the usual: lunch but no sternly worded letter...
In the report, the UN panel said it was certain the Jebel Amir artisanal gold mines
Artisanal? Do they mine the ore organically?
were controlled by the pro-government militia, Abbala Armed Group (AAG), led by Sheikh Musa Hilal, who has been on a UN sanctions blacklist since 2006 over allegations of widespread atrocities.
A “substantial portion of the gold mined at Jebel Amir Mines” is first sent to El Geneina, Darfur and then taken to Khartoum by air, before being illegally exported to the United Arab Emirates, said the report obtained by AFP on Tuesday.
“The panel is thus almost certain that the AAG has an income of $54 million per annum, based on lower case estimates,” the report said.
The experts quoted a letter from the Sudanese government dated from November 2015 saying that there were no armed groups in the Jebel Amir area, but the panel said it was unable to verify that claim.
The panel recommended that the Security Council ask Khartoum to take steps to ensure that gold and other minerals from Darfur are “conflict-free”, but no action will be taken until the report is accepted by the committee.
Darfur descended into conflict in 2003 when ethnic minority insurgents rebelled, complaining the region was being economically and politically marginalised by the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum. Some 300,000 people have been killed in the conflict and there are 2.5 million people in the region who have been forced to flee their homes, according to the United Nations.
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Do they mine the ore organically?
Yup, they use the freshest slaves.
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None of the 27 North Korean ships that are on a UN Security Council blacklist have been able to dock at foreign ports, the Voice of America reported Wednesday. They are either stuck in North Korean ports or marooned on the high seas.
A diplomatic source said, "The UNSC sanctions are now biting, and North Korean ships are port-bound or stuck at sea."
As of March 3, when the UNSC adopted the fresh sanctions, 15 of the North Korean ships on the blacklist were moored at foreign ports or traveling the open seas, according to VOA's analysis of data from the private website Marine Traffic showing the real-time vessel positions. Four days later seven were still in foreign ports, and last month they had dwindled to two.
The others returned to North Korea this month after they were denied entry to ports in China, Hong Kong, and Russia.
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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
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[DAILYCALLER] Student government leaders at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga have demanded one of its members to resign over chalking a message on campus supporting Donald Trump.
In the heart of Russia's Buddhist region of Kalmykia, Russian wrestler Said Osmanov kicked a statue of Buddha in the face and urinated on it while broadcasting live on the Periscope app. The incident happened inside a Buddhist temple in the capital Elista where the wrestler was staying for a tournament.
Russia is blocking the release of a confidential UN report showing that pro-government militias in Sudan’s Darfur region rake in $54 million per year in gold mining, it emerged on Tuesday.
