WASHINGTON (AP) -- A uniformed Secret Service officer shot an armed person on a street outside the White House, a U.S. law enforcement official said Friday.
The White House was placed on a security alert after the shooting, which occurred Friday afternoon. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity for lack of authorization to release the information, said the person approached the Secret Service officer and drew a weapon, and then the officer opened fire.
U.S. Park Police said on Twitter that the shooting happened on West Executive Drive.
A spokesman for D.C. Fire and EMS, Doug Buchanan, said one patient was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition shortly after 3 p.m.
President Barack Obama was not there -- he was playing golf -- but Vice President Joe Biden was in the White House complex at the time and was secured during the lockdown, his office said.
The White House grounds were shut down to pedestrian traffic, locking staff members and reporters indoors.
Secret Service officials did not immediately return messages.
Charles Wade, a prominent Black Lives Matter organizer and co-founder of Operation Help or Hush, was arrested last month and charged with human trafficking and prostitution. Black Lives Matter - and according to Mr. Wade, cost $200 an hour
Mr. Wade was arrested at a Howard Johnson Inn in College Park, Maryland, on April 25. Police said he was residing in a motel room where he allegedly pimped a 17-year-old girl, The Daily Caller reported Thursday. under-age pimping
Mr. Wade was held on seven counts relating to felony human trafficking and prostitution. He was bailed out shortly after his arrest, according to a statement he released on Twitter Wednesday.
He was arrested as part of a sting operation in which an undercover officer responded to an ad Mr. Wade allegedly placed for a 23-year-old woman on backpage.com, a website frequently used by sex traffickers and prostitutes, The Daily Caller reported. Investigators said the woman, who turned out to be a 17-year-old girl, called Mr. Wade her manager. She said he knew she was a minor but wasn't worried because of her upcoming birthday. She also told investigators that she provided all the money she earned to Mr. Wade, The Daily Caller reported.
Mr. Wade told The Daily Caller that he was unfairly arrested because he was "too trusting" of a female tenant whom he was temporarily housing as part of his Operation Help or Hush charity. "Bitch set me up"
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Operation Help or Hush
Is that as in:
Help = "Hide me from the po-lice."
Hush = "Don't snitch?"
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It really is past time to put an end to human trafficking. It's really simple. Anyone caught doing it should be executed by impalement. Since the women/children generally aren't volunteers, they get help. The johns patronizing them should also be die by impalement for the world to see. No excuses or plea bargains.
[Daily Caller] Adult men are almost as common a sight in housing projects as women, even though data show that virtually every subsidized apartment is occupied by low-income women whose "poverty" status is based on being single mothers with no man.
They can be seen exiting apartments in the morning, parking their cars there overnight, and hanging out with other men mid-day. Some are likely coming to see new girlfriends or relatives but their sheer numbers make it unlikely that all of them, or even most, are temporary visitors.
But multiple authorities admit that they do nothing to ensure that the subsidized housing is only used by people named on leases. The authorities also said there is no risk of consequences for people who gain admittance by claiming to be the only adult occupant of a subsidized housing unit.
According to Department of Housing and Urban Development data, 89 percent of families in housing projects have only a mom present, with the number even higher in major cities.
[FRANCE24] Congolese opposition leader Moise Katumbi has been indicted on charges of hiring mercenaries as part of a plot against long-standing President Joseph Kabila, and a warrant is out for his arrest, government front man Lambert Mende said on Thursday.
Katumbi, who is running for president in elections scheduled for November, has been accused of hiring mercenaries, including former US soldiers. He denies the allegations.
Mende told AFP that Katumbi "can either be put under house arrest or be jugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! "The prosecutors have handed their ruling. He is no longer free and he can no longer do what he wants," Mende said.
Prosecutors said Katumbi had been charged with undermining "the state's internal and external security".
Katumbi was not available for comment on Thursday.
Political tensions are high in Congo, where dozens were killed in January 2015 in protests over a proposed revision of the electoral law that critics said was a ploy to keep Kabila in power beyond the end of his mandate.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid has said the management committee of Piyar Sattar Latif High School, which had suspended its headmaster Shyamal Kanti Bhakta, has been dissolved.
He made the statement at a programme held at Mother Language Institute in Segunbagicha of Dhaka on Thursday morning.
He said: "The management committee of Piyar Sattar Latif High School has been dissolved. Shyamal can now resume his work as the headmaster."
The management committee suspended Shyamal on Tuesday.
On Friday, Shyamal was beaten up and forced to do squats holding his ears with both hands in presence of local politician Salim Osman.
A video of the incident spread online, triggering outrage across Bangladesh. Many empathised with the teacher by uploading pictures of themselves holding their ears.
Later, a committee was formed to look into the incident.
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I see no words referring to the arrest, fines, or other punishment of the management committee members, particularly the president, whose relative was slated to replace the now-reinstted headmaster.
[FRANCE24] Police in riot gear clashed with thousands of protesters trying to reach the headquarters of Venezuela's electoral body Wednesday to demand a referendum to recall unpopular President Nicolas Maduro.
The anti-government protest was the third in a week, and came days after the socialist president declared a state of emergency in the economically struggling country. He gave himself decree powers for 60 days.
Thousands of people turned out for the march in downtown Caracas, but police blocked the route. A small group tried to break through and was turned back by tear gas.
On Tuesday, opposition leader Henrique Capriles called on the country to reject the extra powers granted Maduro.
"If Maduro wants to apply this decree, he needs to start preparing tanks and warplanes, because he'll have to apply it by force," Capriles said.
Venezuela has seen constant small-scale protests in recent weeks against widespread water and electricity cuts.
The opposition roiled the country with bloody nationwide protests in 2014, but protests have tended to be small and peaceful since then.
A majority of the country wants Maduro out, according to opinion polls. Venezuelans overwhelmingly voted for the opposition in congressional elections in December, but state institutions have blocked the opposition-controlled congress from passing any legislation.
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Its only a matter of time before starving people get shot and then the gloves come off generally.
And, word to the wise, IF there is any food available today, feed the police first. And if I were Maduro I would have a plane ready on the runway with the motors turned on. Oh, and some real value commodity in a carry on, ( just in case.)
[Herald Net] NEW YORK -- Two-thirds of Americans would have difficulty coming up with the money to cover a $1,000 emergency, according to an exclusive poll released Thursday, a signal that despite years after the Great Recession, Americans' finances remain precarious as ever.
These difficulties span all incomes, according to the poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Three-quarters of people in households making less than $50,000 a year and two-thirds of those making between $50,000 and $100,000 would have difficulty coming up with $1,000 to cover an unexpected bill.
Even for the country's wealthiest 20 percent -- households making more than $100,000 a year -- 38 percent say they would have at least some difficulty coming up with $1,000.
"The more we learn about the balance sheets of Americans, it becomes quite alarming," said Caroline Ratcliffe, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute focusing on poverty and emergency savings issues.
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...My fathwr-in-law - a physician and businessman - told me when I married his daughter that he felt you should have at LEAST six months income in the bank. Ive got it - and that's after dealing with $2K of unexpected car repairs in March. The trouble is that it's rough getting PAST that number.
Mike
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[Al Ahram] La Belle France was disrupted by a third straight day of strikes and demonstrations on Thursday as the prime minister called for protesters who torched a police car to face "harsh" punishment.
Rail staff and air traffic controllers downed tools in the latest mass protests against the government's labour market reforms, causing dozens of flights and trains to be cancelled.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls threatened to use force to break up protests which interfered with the operation of ports, refineries and airports.
But he reserved his strongest words for those who attacked a police car in Gay Paree on Wednesday on the sidelines of a rare rally by coppers protesting against "anti-cop hatred".
With a policeman and a policewoman still inside the car, a small group of masked protesters hammered the car with iron bars before hurling in an bomb, causing it to burst into flames.
The two officers managed to escape unharmed.
Valls said: "The punishment must be harsh. The inquiry has just started, arrests have been made."
Four suspects were tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on Wednesday and a fifth was picked up Thursday, sources close to the investigation said.
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"God created the idiot for practice - then he created the school board." - Mark Twain
In a move spearheaded by environmentalists, the Portland Public Schools board unanimously approved a resolution aimed at eliminating doubt of climate change and its causes in schools.
"It is unacceptable that we have textbooks in our schools that spread doubt about the human causes and urgency of the crisis," said Lincoln High School evangelist student Gaby Lemieux in board testimony. "Climate education is not a niche or a specialization, it is the minimum requirement for my generation to be successful in our changing world." The science is settled! You deniers must not be allowed to speak!
The resolution passed Tuesday evening calls for the school district to get rid of textbooks or other materials that cast doubt on whether climate change is occurring and that the activity of human beings is responsible. The resolution also directs the superintendent and staff to develop an implementation plan for "curriculum and educational opportunities that address climate change and climate justice in all Portland Public Schools."
Bill Bigelow, a former PPS high priest teacher and current curriculum editor of Rethinking Schools, a magazine devoted to education issues, worked with 350PDX and other environmental groups to present the resolution.
"A lot of the text materials are kind of thick with the language of doubt, and obviously the science says otherwise," Bigelow says, accusing the publishing industry to bowing to pressure from fossil fuels companies. "We don’t want kids in Portland learning material courtesy of the fossil fuel industry." Instead we want them learning material courtesy of the 'Environmental' movement.
Bigelow is also the co-author of a textbook on environmental education, A People's Curriculum for the Earth. Asked if this resolution will cause the district to buy new textbooks, such as his book, Bigelow said Rethinking Schools is a nonprofit, not a money-maker. Yeah - so how much salary is this nonprofit paying him? And how about the royalties on the book...
"What we're asking for is not: Buy new stuff," he said. "What we're looking for is a whole different model of curriculum development and distribution." Something we control! Your pay later of course. Oh, you can pay now, too...
Bigelow said the district already has climate-change literacy curriculum, such as at Sunnyside Environmental School, and he demands wants that faith knowledge to spread. I'm already making big money from this!
School board member Mike Rosen introduced the resolution. He also leads NW Ecoliteracy Collaborative, a project focused on environmental curriculum standards. However, he says that work has been on hold. yeah... right....
"I have become concerned about its ability to teach the one true faith make progress and not have a conflict with being a school board member," Rosen said, noting that he is now instead working part-time for the Audubon Society of Portland. "I don't want there to be a conflict between my school board work and this nonprofit." In that case the standard, ethical, and honorable stance would be to excuse yourself from the decision making process. But then there's about as much ethics and honor as there is concern for the actual environment in the 'environmental' movement these days.
BLUF: [PJ] If the the Osprey still has a major challenge it's that the need for ground attack aircraft is increasing, while our ground-pounder force is shrinking (all combat wings), aging (everything prior to the F-22), or of unproven air-to-ground capability (the F-35).
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The platform hadn't undergone it's first engine change and the Marines were asking for 30mm cannon to somehow be mounted. Please, let us examine the real problem which is the lack of ground attack aircraft.
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A bit more on the aircraft. Note the operational readiness (OR) rate in this article. Be advised, the OR rate was very carefully monitored in theater. Here I will add, measured for success, not pushed for endurance.
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The Osprey is supposed to carry stuff. To add weapons means more weight. The more capable the weapons, the less stuff--Marines--it can carry. Other than a couple of machine guns, an increase in weaponry will require modifications; strengthening of some members against recoil, balance issues, ammo storage, fire control, gunnery training for the crew and maintenance training for the ground guys.
Better haul out some helicopter gunships. More maneuverable, smaller targets, purpose-built, won't detract from the Osprey's mission.
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Pigeons, or course, are already armed to the beak - just ask any statue.
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If the Marines need close in air support, the answer is simple: A-29 Super Tucano armed with a 30mm cannon. That sucker probably could fly off the deck of the Wasp.
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[An Nahar] Families of the Aley district town of Ain Dara held a sit-in on Wednesday protesting an attack waged by armed gunnies against the municipality's building, the state-run National News Agency reported.
Armed men stormed the offices of the municipality and tried to forcibly obtain a signature on a license for a cement plant, NNA said.
Pierre Fattoush, the brother of MP Nicolas Fattoush, threatened to kill the female employee at the municipality, Therese Bader, after she refused to sign one of the submitted documents to establish a cement plant in outskirts of the town.
It is not a first for Fattoush. In 2014, gunnies loyal to the MP and his brother assaulted a TV crew during the filming of a report on the construction of a controversial cement factory.
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[Daily Caller] Federal workers at the departments of State, Treasury, Justice and Health and Human Services have given at least 10 times more in campaign contributions to Democrats than Republicans so far in the 2016 election cycle.
Department of Treasury workers made the most lopsided contributions from among agencies employing the 2.2 million strong federal workforce, giving $170,897 to Democrats, versus just $1,925 to Republicans in 2015 and 2016, according to Center for Responsive Politics data compiled by FedSmith.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received $26,587, while Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont got $7,727 in their respective campaigns for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.
They vote for Democrats and give them campaign dollars. The Democrats defend their government checks at all costs to the rest of Americans.
It's really not that complicated.
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"My wife is crying upstairs. I hear cars coming to the house. Consigliore of mine, I think it's time you told your Don what everyone seems to know."
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#4 works for Fed employee because then they don't have to pay two thugs. union and party, for the same representation as they do elsewhere. Thinks of the savings.
Repeal the Civil Service Act. Put accountability back upon your elected representatives. Lousy service? Fire the boss.
[Wash Examiner] A federal judge has ordered annual ethics classes for Justice Department attorneys as a punishment for being "intentionally deceptive" during litigation over President Obama's executive immigration orders.
"Such conduct is certainly not worthy of any department whose name includes the word 'Justice,'" U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen wrote in a withering order released Thursday.
Ethics classes are fine. Contempt of court would send a better message, as would disbarment...
Justice Department attorneys misled the court about when the Department of Homeland Security would begin implementing President Obama's executive order granting "deferred action" to illegal immigrants whose children are citizens. In doing so, they tricked the 26 states who filed a lawsuit into "foregoing a request for a temporary restraining order," according to the judge.
The facts of the deception are not in doubt, Hanen emphasized. "[DOJ] has now admitted making statements that clearly did not match the facts," he said in the May 19 opinion, first noted by the National Law Journal. "It has admitted that the lawyers who made these statements had knowledge of the truth when they made these misstatements ... This court would be remiss if it left such unseemly and unprofessional conduct unaddressed."
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In a USG position of trust and responsibility requiring a polygraph examination, the term "intentionally deceptive" annotated in the exam adjudication, generally results in one NOT being hired.
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Hanen seemed to lament that he couldn't disbar the attorneys involved, but he barred the out-of-state attorneys from enjoying the right to practice law in Texas.
"The court does not have the power to disbar the counsel in this case, but it does have the power to revoke the pro hac vice status of out-of-state lawyers who act unethically in court," he wrote. "By a separate sealed order that it is simultaneously issuing, that is being done."
there's that, at least
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New evidence shows that a University of Virginia student who alleged that she was gang raped at a campus fraternity created the fake persona of the alleged ringleader of the attack, according to lawyers representing a U-Va. official who is suing Rolling Stone magazine for defamation.
The legal team representing U-Va. assistant dean Nicole Eramo filed the new evidence Monday in federal court in a case involving the magazine’s retracted portrayal of the incident and the university’s handling of sexual assaults on the Charlottesville campus. The magazine published the 9,000 word account in 2014, and it centered on claims by a U-Va. student, named Jackie, That is, Ms. Jackie Coakley...
that she’d been gang-raped as a freshman in a fraternity house in September 2012.
In the filing, Eramo’s lawyers submitted new data from Yahoo concerning an e-mail account linked to “Haven Monahan,” the man Jackie identified to friends as the perpetrator of her assault. An investigation by the Charlottesville Police revealed that no person by that name has ever been a student at U-Va., and Eramo’s lawyers have presented evidence in court documents indicating that he is a figment of Jackie’s imagination.
Ryan Duffin, a student who knew Jackie at U-Va., told The Washington Post that he believed that the character was created by Jackie in an effort to attract Duffin’s romantic interest, a tactic known as “catfishing.
[FOX] Jerry Boykin is the kind of man you’d want teaching your sons ‐ a good and decent man, an honorable man - a Christian man.
For the past nine years the retired lieutenant general has taught leadership and ethics at Hampden-Sydney College, a highly regarded, all-male school based in Virginia. By many accounts ‐ he is beloved and deeply respected by students.
But Gen. Boykin will not be returning to the classroom this fall. That’s because he tells me he's been fired.
The man who was one of the original members of Delta Force and once commanded all of the U.S. Army’s Green Berets ‐ the man who served his nation with honor and distinction for more than 36 years ‐ was ousted because of political correctness.
Thank you for your exemplary service to freedom. Thank you for your devotion to exercising freedom. Consider the spite by the commies another earned strip of honor for you have wounded the enemies of freedom again. You da man!
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.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A uniformed Secret Service officer shot an armed person on a street outside the White House, a U.S. law enforcement official said Friday.
Charles Wade, a prominent Black Lives Matter organizer and co-founder of Operation Help or Hush, was arrested last month and charged with human trafficking and prostitution.
[Daily Caller] Adult men are almost as common a sight in housing projects as women, even though data show that virtually every subsidized apartment is occupied by low-income women whose "poverty" status is based on being single mothers with no man.
[FRANCE24] Congolese opposition leader Moise Katumbi has been indicted on charges of hiring mercenaries as part of a plot against long-standing President Joseph Kabila, and a warrant is out for his arrest, government 
[FRANCE24] Police in riot gear clashed with thousands of protesters trying to reach the headquarters of Venezuela's electoral body Wednesday to demand a referendum to recall unpopular President Nicolas Maduro.
[Al Ahram] 
[An Nahar] Families of the Aley district town of Ain Dara held a sit-in on Wednesday protesting an attack waged by armed 
[Daily Caller] Federal workers at the departments of State, Treasury, Justice and Health and Human Services have given at least 10 times more in campaign contributions to Democrats than Republicans so far in the 2016 election cycle.
