[BALTIMORE.CBSLOCAL] Investigators now believe an officer fired the shot that maimed a 5-year-old boy during a deadly standoff between his mother and police at a Randallstown apartment complex on Monday, authorities said.
There is a continuing investigation into the shooting, which followed a 7-hour standoff at an apartment complex on Sulky Court, that killed 23-year-old Korryn Gaines and injured her son.
"There were times that we thought this would come to a peaceful resolution," Baltimore County Police Chief James Johnson said at a Tuesday news conference. "There were other times she was highly agitated. The entire time throughout the afternoon, she would repeatedly point the gun at her personnel."
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[LATIMES] A federal grand jury on Friday indicted former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca on charges of obstructing justice and lying to federal Sherlocks concerning operations at the troubled county jail system.
The charges come days after Baca withdrew an earlier guilty plea to a charge of lying during an FBI investigation into the county’s jails, opting instead to take his chances at a high-stakes trial.
Under the new indictment, Baca faces one count of conspiracy to obstruct a federal grand jury investigation, one count of obstruction of justice and one count of making false statements. If convicted on all counts, he could face 20 years in prison.
In deciding to walk away from the agreement he struck with federal prosecutors on Monday, Baca opened the door to the government bringing a broader and more serious case against him.
Michael Zweiback, one of Baca’s attorneys, said Monday he expected prosecutors to level the more serious charges, which mirror those brought against Baca’s former second-in-command, Paul Tanaka, who was convicted earlier this year of obstruction of justice in the same FBI investigation.
Baca’s decision came after U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson said last month that he would reject the plea deal, which had limited the former sheriff’s prison time to a maximum of six months. Anderson had sentenced Tanaka to five years in prison.
After withdrawing his plea, Baca told a horde of news hounds on the steps of the downtown courthouse that he had done so because of "untruthful statements" made by the judge and prosecutors about his involvement in a scheme by sheriff’s officials to thwart the FBI’s jail probe.
He did not specify what was untruthful. Instead, reading from a prepared statement, Baca referenced his recent diagnosis with Alzheimer’s disease and said the inevitable progression of the illness had injected an element of urgency into the case.
"I need to set the record straight about me and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on the misleading aspects of the federal investigation while I am capable of doing so," said Baca, who retired in 2014.
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to a charge of lying during an FBI investigation
[LOSANGELES.CBSLOCAL] The hunt is on for a man accused of dousing a mother of seven in gasoline before setting her on fire in South Los Angeles.
Tabitha Morton remains at death's door at a hospital with extensive burns following the attack, which unfolded June 12th in an alley in the 500 block of E. Vernon Avenue.
"This occurred in broad daylight in front of witnesses and she was critically injured while he simply walked away," said Capt. Daniel Curry of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Investigators say Morton got into a fight with the suspect before he went to a nearby convenience story to buy the gasoline.
"You never know what somebody is capable of. Look what he’s done," she said.
Morton’s family posted photographs of the 47-year-old, who is on life support.
Workers at an El Pollo Loco location said she worked for what little money she had, often coming there to clean.
"She always had this smile on her face, you know? Speaking to everybody, you know," said one man.
Investigators say it’s unclear how Morton knew the suspect, who they described as a dangerous, cold-blooded criminal. He was caught on camera grinning moments before the attack.
"To methodically just douse her with gasoline and light her on fire, that’s as shocking as you can get," Curry said.
Investigators say they want to put a name with the suspect’s face and are asking anyone with information to give them a call.
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Gee, doent this life matter to a certain organization? The name escapes at the moment, but. Curious minds want to know.
The Durban Central South African Police placed in durance vile I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! two suspects aged 24 and 20 yesterday. The suspects were found in possession of a human head. Apparently, the suspects attempted to sell the head to traditional healers.
The truth is that in South African, selling of human body parts is nothing new. It is a barbaric behavior, based on traditional history. The traditional healers use the body parts to concoct up medicine and sell to ignorant, gullible people. Ignorant people who believe that medicine made by traditional healers have astronomical powers that will heal, create wealth and stamina. There is nothing civilized about this, and people need to understand that there is no power in "muti." The foolish people are throwing away the little bit of money they have, expecting a miracle.
It is inhumane for humans to cut off body parts from another person just for the purpose of selling to traditional leaders. People do this for money or drugs, and it is criminal that in a democratic country, people are still living like primitive savages.
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The friends of the breadless were breathless:
"Far better the dead should go headless
(they're done resource-hoggin'
and don't need no noggin!)
Than indigent ill should go medless."
BOSSASO, Somalia-A Turkish aid ship with 3,500 tons of supplies including rice and sugar has docked at Bossaso port on Thursday, Garowe Online reports. Of the 3500, 1800 tons will be transported to central Galmudug and Hiran region hit by severe flooding last month.
Representatives from Galmudug and Hiran regional administration are said to be in Bossaso to wet their beaks receive the aid.
Turkey sent a ship carrying 11,000 tons of aid to Somalia in May. According to state-run Anadolu Agency, Turkish government and relief groups delivered USD 500 million worth of aid to conflict-wracked Somalia.
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A passenger jet has declared a mid-air emergency and seemingly disappeared from radar, according to reports.
The Boeing 736 took off from Algiers this afternoon on a flight to Marseille but let out an emergency call shortly after take-off. Flight radar showed the plane turn around and head back towards the point where it took-off but before arriving, the jet disappeared from radar.
Update at 1135 CT: returned to Algiers and landed safely. Apparent "technical difficulties".
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Obviously the Boeing 736 is the stealth version off the 737.
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I guess all planes disappear from radar when they land.
Gives reporters something exciting to tell us on dull news days or when there is bad news for Hillary.
China is rolling out fake North Korean defectors who then apply for asylum overseas and reap medical and other benefits from foreign governments. The ruse is another feather in the cap of China's burgeoning industry in fakes and knockoffs that covers everything from electronics to toxic frozen peas.
A source on Tuesday said there are a couple of private academies in Beijing's Wangjing district, which is home to a large ethnic Korean population, that help Chinese citizens fake documents to pose as North Korean defectors.
The main clients are ethnic Koreans from northeastern China who can speak the language. The academies teach them about North Korea and help them fabricate stories of their escape. If they succeed in gaining asylum overseas they can rake in hundreds of euros in monthly support from European governments and be eligible for other perks like medical insurance.
European governments used to be quite accommodating to people claiming to be North Korean defectors but screenings have become more stringent.
The source said the fake defectors are introduced to brokers who fabricate identity documents showing that they worked in coal mines or factories in North Korean prison camps. They are also coached on what questions are commonly asked by European officials.
But as these fake defectors are granted asylum in Europe, real defectors who are unable to produce identity documents are sometimes deported.
According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 1,100 North Korean defectors lived in 13 countries as of 2015. Another 230 were waiting for the results of their asylum application.
The U.K. had the most with 622, followed by France with 146, Canada with 126, Germany with 104, Belgium with 66 and the Netherlands with 59. Twenty-two had settled in the U.S.
A government source here said some Chinese citizens posing as North Korean defectors even come to South Korea. "The international community must try to filter out fake defectors so that real ones do not face unfair treatment," a spokesman for a human rights group said.
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Western Civ produces fake Syrian Refugees.....
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Today, Friday, August 05 2016, the Baltic Dry Index showed no change, remaining at 636 points.
Baltic Dry Index is compiled by the London-based Baltic Exchange and covers prices for transported cargo such as coal, grain and iron ore. The index is based on a daily survey of agents all over the world. Baltic Dry hit a temporary peak on May 20, 2008, when the index hit 11,793. The lowest level ever reached was on Wednesday the 10th of February 2016, when the index dropped to 290 points.
Increasing trade and contracting supply will support a recovery in charter rates on major dry bulk shipping routes, with the prospect of China importing more coal and iron ore to combat pollution and poor quality, according to the latest edition of the Dry Bulk Forecaster, published by global shipping consultancy Drewry.
Macroeconomic policy decisions by the Chinese authorities have had an impact on the overall dry bulk market, increasing vessel demand on key routes resulting in a steady recovery in charter rates.
China’s efforts to revive its economy have helped the iron ore trade to revive and are expected to further boost tonne-mile demand, as Drewry envisages more of the commodity coming out of Brazil.
On the investent side, tighter financing options and restrained new ordering have helped the dry bulk market to keep supply in check so far. A high number of slippages and cancellations will impede any substantial growth in deliveries over the next few years.
Demolition of ever-younger vessels is expected to result in a slowdown in fleet growth this year. And a similar rate of demolition and delivery in the next year will help deflate oversupply further. Demand growth, which seemed to be an unlikely prospect throughout last year and the early part of 2016, has been helping the dry bulk market come off the bottom.
I've heard worse news this year
In the past five years ESPN has lost 11,346,000 subscribers according to Nielsen data.
If you combine that with ESPN2 and ESPNU subscriber losses this means that ESPN has lost over a billion dollars in cable and satellite revenue just in the past five years, an average of $200 million each year. That total of a billion dollars hits ESPN in the pocketbook not just on a yearly basis, but for every year going forward.
It's gone forever.
That's not just bad, this is downright cataclysmic.
And it's getting worse.
In the past year ESPN lost 4.159 million subscribers, that's another $350 million in lost revenue across the ESPN family of networks.
ESPN presently has 88,781,000 subscribers, down from 101,000,000 subscribers five years ago. Given that the rate of lost subscribers appears to be accelerating, if we're conservative and just project ESPN loses 3 million subscribers a year for the next five years, then the worldwide leader in sports will have just 73 million subscribers in 2021.
At that point in time ESPN would be roughly break even with the amount of money its paying for sports rights and the amount of money ESPN brings in via subscriber revenue.
So where are all these subscribers going? A good theory posited by SportsTVRatings is that the loss is happening three ways, 1. death, 2. cord nevers and 3. cord cutters. Let me unpack those three: first, older people are dying off and they're more likely to subscribe to cable than younger people, second, many younger people don't subscribe to cable at all, hence they're cord nevers and third, many of you are also cutting the cord to save money. Combine all three of these factors and all are working against the cable and satellite bundle.
So let's talk about the ESPN business model.
I've written a ton about this, but on its most basic level every channel has a cost in your cable bill. You don't realize it because your cable bill isn't broken down by individual channel cost, but ESPN is by far the most expensive channel on all our cable bills. (ESPN is the most expensive channel costing $6.60 a month. The second most expensive? TNT, which costs just $1.65 a month). Every single cable and satellite subscriber pays around $80 a year for ESPN. With 88.7 million subscribers, that means ESPN pockets around $7 billion a year just in cable and satellite subscription fees.
So what makes sports on cable TV a bubble? The fact that ESPN uses the money it receives from cable and satellite subscribers to buy sports rights. And the vast majority of those cable and satellite subscribers never watch ESPN. Your Aunt Gladys, who hasn't watched a sporting event in a decade, pays the same amount for ESPN as you do.
What does ESPN do with that money from you and Aunt Gladys and its other 88 million subscribers? It buys sports rights.
Presently ESPN is on the hook for the following yearly rights payments: $1.9 billion a year to the NFL for Monday Night Football, $1.47 billion to the NBA, $700 million to Major League Baseball, $608 million for the College Football Playoff, $225 million to the ACC, $190 million to the Big Ten, $120 million -- and potentially growing -- to the Big 12, $125 million a year to the PAC 12, and hundreds of millions more to the SEC. This weekend, the NFL opening exhibition game, the Hall of Fame Game will be on cable only. The travails ESPN is having in losing screwing its customers factors into this decision, without a doubt.
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I dumped cable last year because of the constant predatory increasing rates with a lack of service just pissed me off. Most of the cable news is in the tank for the Donks as well. I got fed up with the constant left-wing drum beat for the Dems. I found that I saved a ton of money. The "real news" is available from the alternative media via the internet. The crowning blow came when At&T promised me service in time for a championship game and they didn't deliver. Ended up watching the game in a sports bar--haven't had cable since.
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I used to watch a lot of ESPN as a way to avoid all the political bull crap. Really fun in the old days when VFL (aka Aussie Rules) was on and Allie Sherman did the football analysis.
I've always liked intelligent analysis shows and the weird sports but it changed into a channel of all big sports all the time. Then they tried to shove the WNBA down our throats, then the racial grievance mongers like Stephen A and the NBA.
Pretty much down to one show now, Mike & Mike in the Morning and even that is becoming SJW polluted.
Been going to the web for news for years, doesn't seem to be anywhere to go for non-politicized entertainment anymore other than a few science type shows and even those can get questionable.
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CF, Outrageous Acts of Science is still fun. Mythbusters is gone now but they were fading fast the last couple of years. Some of the History channel type stuff is okay and some of the car building shows on Discovery too.
Never liked Bill Nye the Science Boob or Global Worming guys.
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I'm a month away from cutting the cord - I'd rather get damn near every channel in the world than pay $150 / month to listen to Screaming A. Smith tell me what a racist I am.
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We cut the cable - two years ago, maybe three. Got Roku boxes, and paid for Netflix and Hulu - already had Amazon prime. Honestly don't think we are missing anything currently broadcast. We can pick it up down the line on streaming video and without commercials. The cable bill monthly from Time Warner was 150$+, and I was just sick of paying that much and only watching a few things. Now it's $43 for the internet service only, and about another 20$ a month for Hulu and Netflix.
Remember the "more homeruns because of glow bull warming"?
Also, the Speak for Yourself with Whitlock - Whitlock the Hack was who spearheaded the Javon Belcher murder + suicide as Gun Lobby/NRA conspiracy culture, not what really happened: ill raised boy apex athlete who had a child out of wedlock, baby momma's momma raising the two, he went out routinely to do a bunch of drugs (which ones we do not know because the toxicology report was buried) and drink a bunch of liquor the night before the game and hooked up with one of his mistresses, was pulled over by police on the way home, released because superstar, shot and killed baby's momma, then suicided himself at the stadium.
Much easier to blame someone else then answer all of those questions, then Bob 'puffy face' Costas, the smartest man in the announcers booth, blamed white culture.
Whitlock was a KC Star = Disney = ESPN blue chip until bought out by Fox.
When PTI is the most popular show, you are doing it wrong. Countering that with SFY is like watching someone fishing a spot for 3 hours and doing nothing but losing bait, then taking their spot and expecting to catch something.
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OX513A is engineered to block tetracycline production resulting in its demise. It is estimated up to 75% of tetracycline administered to farm animals is excreted in waste. Oxitec acknowledges tetracycline present in the environment could result in a survival rate of up to 15% of the Ox513A population.
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Inovio 2010 gates foundation R&d grant grew to 2013 funding with mvi
2013 Glaxo smith Kline acquires gates funded okairos
Both are heavily involved in vaccine development for various African creatures
Both are also 1&2 for zika human trials being conducted in the USA right now
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.
[BALTIMORE.CBSLOCAL] Investigators now believe an officer fired the shot that 
[LATIMES] A federal grand jury on Friday indicted former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca on charges of obstructing justice and lying to federal 
[LOSANGELES.CBSLOCAL] The hunt is on for a man accused of dousing a mother of seven in gasoline before setting her on fire in South Los Angeles.
China is rolling out fake North Korean defectors who then apply for asylum overseas and reap medical and other benefits from foreign governments. The ruse is another feather in the cap of China's burgeoning industry in fakes and knockoffs that covers everything from electronics to toxic frozen peas.
