[ABC] A Texas state trooper has been wounded on the Texas-Mexico border by a bullet traced to a gunbattle underway on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande.
Lt. Johnny Hernandez of the Texas Department of Public Safety says the trooper was struck in the leg by what may have been an errant bullet from across the river.
Hernandez says it was unclear if the gunfight involved the Mexican military or state police. The Texas state trooper was hit about 1 p.m. Friday while on foot patrol in the Starr County border community of Fronton, about 105 miles upstream from Brownsville.
The trooper, whose identity hasn't been released, was airlifted to a McAllen hospital, where he was in stable condition with what Hernandez says is a non-life-threatening wound.
[The Hill] The Army Corps of Engineers plans to close off a swath of North Dakota land that for months has housed a campsite for anti-pipeline protesters.
The Army Corps sent a letter to the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe Friday that said all lands north of the Cannonball River will be closed on Dec. 5, the Associated Press reported.
"To be clear, this means that no member of the general public, to include Dakota Access pipeline protesters, can be on these Corps lands," the letter from Col. John Henderson reads.
Tribe Chairman Dave Archambault told the AP that the land to be closed includes the Oceti Sakowin camp on Army Corps land where many protesters have set up.
Another camp, Sacred Stone, sits on the opposite of the river and will not be affected by the Army Corps decision.
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I wonder how many of these "protesters" were no big fan of the Malheur activity. Shoe, meet other foot.
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Army Corps heads musta realized Obama's gone in 2 months. Politicized ain't gonna cut it any more
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Time for D-9s On Parade!
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Locals and the tribe are getting mighty damned tired of these white kids treating it like its Burning Man - and the enviro terrorists who are causing all the damage and violence.
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...Realistically though, what can the Army/CoE do to get 'em off of there? This is a civilian law enforcement matter (and the Current Gummint wouldn't go in and force them off to save its life), which means either this statement was just for show or North Dakota has had enough of their shiat...
Mike
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Time to reanimate Janet Reno. That's what the bolts on her neck are for...
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Apparently Soros's check got tied up in the election chaos.
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Another case of "injun lovers" blocking their better life as usual? The democrat party never changes it's pretensions, it only makes them count.
Fakers don't have a gas or electric bill from their house, they need to leave or be escorted out.
Enjoy these last few weeks, guys -- the new boss has all sorts of new ideas, but this is not likely to be one of them.
[DAILYCALLER] The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is suing a town in New Jersey for bias after municipal officials refused to approve plans to build a mosque.
In a new court filing, the DOJ alleges that the Bernards Township Planning Board discriminated against the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge (ISBR) and violated the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act during a lengthy application process that ultimately resulted in the town’s denial of the proposed project.
The town is accused of discriminating against ISBR on the basis of its religion, applying standards of review to the ISBR it had not applied to other congregations and assemblies, and imposing a burden on members of the ISBR for practicing their religion.
"RLUIPA ensures that municipalities must treat religious land use applications like any other land use application," U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman said in a statement. "But here, township officials kept moving the goalposts by using ever-changing local requirements to effectively deny this religious community the same access as other faiths."
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Tie DOJ up in court actions until January 20
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I used to work in Basking Ridge. Plenty of old money around the horse farms to employ the best lawyers to drag this out as much as possible.
[Al Ahram] Colombia's Marxist FARC will support a presidential candidate in 2018 to prevent a peace accord being modified or scrapped, rebel leader Rodrigo Londono said on Friday, an apparent bid to block former President Alvaro Uribe's right-wing party taking office.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC or FARC-EP, is either a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization or a drug cartel based in Colombia. It claims to represent the rural poor in a struggle against Colombia's wealthier classes, and opposes United States influence in Colombia, neo-imperialism, monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the usual raft of complaints. It funds itself principally through ransom kidnappings, taxation of the drug trade, extortion, shakedowns, and donations. It has lately begun calling itself Bolivarian and is greatly admired by Venezuela's President-for-Life Chavez, who seemingly fantasizes about living in the woods and kidnapping people himself. He provides FARC with safe areas along the border. signed a peace agreement with the government on Thursday, converting it into a political party that will have some weight when President Juan Manuel Santos stands down.
Speaking to the international press, Londono, 57, said there is a struggle in Colombia between those who want peace and those who want the five-decade war to continue. He agreed there is a risk that a political opponent could seek to alter the accord once in office.
"This is a long-term project. To consolidate peace after over 50 years of confrontation won't be achieved in a few months or years. We think the next government, the next president, should guarantee the continuity of the process," said the veteran fighter, known by his nom de guerre Timochenko.
"It should be a transitional government."
The government and FARC worked for four years in Cuba to negotiate an end to the region's longest-running conflict, which killed more than 220,000 and displaced millions in the Andean nation.
An original draft was rejected in a plebiscite last month as too lenient on the rebels, forcing the two sides back to the negotiating table for a second, slightly modified document.
The still-popular and powerful Uribe spearheaded the push to reject the original accord and wants deeper changes to the new version. He has called for protests and may seek a new referendum to scrap the accord.
Despite widespread relief at an end to the conflict, many among Colombia's largely conservative residents are angry because the deal will not jail FARC leaders who committed crimes like kidnappings and massacres. It also allows them to hold political office.
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According to polls in Columbia, the citizens feel that there's a shortage of lampposts available to hang enough FARC members. So it might be sticking point.
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[Al Ahram] President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... has given a Russian passport to U.S. action film star Steven Seagal, calling it a sign of a thaw in relations with the United States.
The 64-year old actor has been a regular visitor to Russia in recent years and has accompanied Putin to several martial arts events.
Seagal also has vocally defended the Russian leader's policies and criticized the U.S. government.
After awarding Seagal citizenship through a presidential decree earlier this month, Putin hosted the actor at the Kremlin on Friday and handed him the passport.
Putin told Seagal he hopes the ceremony, which was shown on Russian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, is "also a sign of a gradual normalization of the relations between the countries."
Pic at this Guardian link. Damn, Seagal has let himself go in retirement...
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[Ynet] Amid frosty relations with Ankara, Germany is considering moving military planes involved in the international mission against ISIS from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to Jordan, Kuwait or Cyprus.
The Defense Ministry says it's scouting alternative locations to the Incirlik Air Base in Turkey at the request of Parliament.
German politicians have repeatedly been prevented from visiting the base after passing a resolution that labeled killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks a century ago as genocide.
German daily Bild, which first reported the move Friday, says military officials plan to travel to Amman on Saturday.
Bild reports that moving Germany's Tornado reconnaissance jets and a refueling plane from the Turkey base would take several weeks.
The German air force planes aren't currently flying combat missions
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I understand the Germans are familiar with Crete...
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[Al Ahram] At least 40 people were killed and 100 injured when one Iranian passenger train collided with another at a station about 150 miles (250 km) east of the capital Tehran, and the corpse count is likely to rise, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported.
President Hassan Rouhani ordered an acceleration of rescue efforts as well as an investigation into the cause of the deadly crash in the northern province of Semnan.
Video footage showed four derailed carriages, two of them on fire. A front man for Iran's Red Islamic Thingy, Mostafa Mortazavi, told the semi-official Fars news agency that firefighters were trying to control the blaze.
"I was sleeping when the crash happened. I thought it was an air strike ... When I opened my eyes, there was blood everywhere," a hospitalised passenger said.
Fars quoted Semnan provincial governor Mohammad Reza Khabbaz as saying the corpse count was expected to increase. The governor of Tabriz told the semi-official Tasnim news agency that the moving train had 400 passengers on board. It was not clear how many passengers had been on the second train. Fars had earlier said 100 had been rescued.
"Out of the 400 passengers ... 48 are missing. They might be hospitalised or left the area... but there is a high possibility that they were killed," Rahim Shohratifar told Tasnim.
The semi-official Mehr news agency said four of the dead were railway employees aboard the trains.
Khabbaz told Iranian television it appeared that a train entering the Haft-Khan station on the outskirts of Shahroud ploughed into another that had broken down there.
"The initial investigation suggests that a mechanical failure, possibly caused by cold weather, forced the express train, operating between the cities of Tabriz and Mashhad to stop (at Haft-Khan)," Khabbaz said.
A local official told state TV that the remote location of the crash had slowed rescue efforts. "So far only one helicopter has reached the scene because of access difficulties," said local Red Islamic Thingy chief Hasan Shokrollahi.
Iran's rail network aged badly under economic sanctions imposed over its disputed nuclear programme, making it difficult to modernise rolling stock, and safety standards suffered.
The sanctions were lifted in January after Iran reached a deal with world powers to limit its nuclear activity.
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Iran's rail network aged badly under economic sanctions imposed over its disputed nuclear programme, making it difficult to modernise rolling stock, and safety standards suffered.
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Didn't see the red signal protecting the stopped train? Stopped train's flagman didn't go back to protect the train? Never heard of western safety standards?
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[Al Ahram] U.S. President-elect Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... has recently spoken with the leaders of Greece, Hungary, Panama, Slovenia and Sweden, his transition team said in a statement on Friday. The leaders of the five nations talked to Trump in recent days and congratulated the Republican on his Nov. 8 victory in the U.S. presidential election, the statement said.
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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.
[The Hill] The Army Corps of Engineers plans to close off a swath of North Dakota land that for months has housed a campsite for anti-pipeline protesters. 
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
