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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Chicago WIA/KIA update: Youth, 16, among 3 killed on Labor Day.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/03/2013 04:03 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Slow day.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/03/2013 7:53 Comments || Top||

#2  New voters...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/03/2013 18:02 Comments || Top||


Police break up 'drug-fueled orgy' at Masonic Lodge
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Police in Michigan have broken up a shocking 'drug-fueled orgy' being hosted at a secretive Masonic Lodge - and this wasn't the first time it's happened, authorities warn.
"Dat's right! I seen it before!"
Officers were called to the prominent building in downtown Battle Creek, Michigan - which sits across a park from police headquarters - about 2.15am Sunday. They found five women dancing on stage naked.
Whoa! Nekkid wimmin? Across the street from the cop shoppe?
They also reportedly discovered a couple having sex in the lodge and several men standing around filming the action.
"Lemme see your marriage license and registration!"
"Didja get that for YouTube, Ted?"
"Put the smart phone down and step away with your hands up!"

WWMT-TV reports that authorities believe the Masonic Lodge, which is home of the secret society called Freemasons, has been used for such activities before and are working to shut the operation down.
George Washington was a Mason, too, but I don't think they had nekkid bewbie dancers at his lodge. But the proceedings are secret, so maybe they did.
Police sources told WWMT that officers found a 'drug-fueled sex party' in the building and sent the revelers home.
"G'wan! Get outta here!"
"Offisher! I losh my pants!"
"That guy's got two pairs! See if one of 'em fits! Then beat it!"

The Battle Creek Freemasons refused to comment on camera for the TV station, but insisted that the orgy was not part of the secret society's rituals.
"No orgies. Sorry. We lean more toward funny hats and secret handshakes!"
"Darn! Can I have my initiation fee back?"
"We have a Miley Cyrus show scheduled, though."
"Can I please have my initiation fee back?"

They said the party was not sponsored by their group at all.
"Darn those Rotarians, anyway! Giving us a bad name!"
"Shriners, I could understand..."

Instead, they say, a party promoter paid $900 to rent the space for the night.
Easy enough. Whose name's on the check?
'Charlie,' a Freemason spokesman,
"Call me Chuck!"
said the man renting the lodge told the Freemasons he would be hosting a dance party.
The nekkid babez were dancing, weren't they?
Posted by: Fred || 09/03/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The fact there are no photographs in the article or video might indicate the involvement of secret Amish Templars and democrats.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/03/2013 2:10 Comments || Top||

#2  The Battle Creek Freemasons refused to comment on camera for the TV station, but insisted that the orgy was not part of the secret society's rituals.

No, no, no. If you want to increase membership, you're doin it wrong...
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/03/2013 20:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Grew up in next county over and dad worked in BC. Now that Kellogg's is gone, all that is happening there is a window boarding up drill and crumbling buildings. And drug fueled orgies of course. but then we had the beer fueled version out at scenic Gull Lake during formative years...
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 09/03/2013 21:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Sorry to hear about Kellogg's being gone. 50+ years ago they gave out variety packs of breakfast cereal when you toured the plant. I can still remember the smell of the processing ovens.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/03/2013 21:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Yeah B that was a real good smell, but when Purina was cooking cat food, Dad decided to work out in the field that day ( county health dept, next door to Purina)
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 09/03/2013 23:32 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Kazakhstan Shaken by Riots after Heartthrob's Concert
[An Nahar] Investigators in Kazakhstan were on Monday probing how a glitzy concert at an upscale shopping center by a wildly popular heartthrob Kazakh singer led to riots that left dozens wounded.

More than 160 people were arrested after the unrest, which broke out late on Saturday night at the concert by pop singer Kairat Nurtas at the Prime Plaza shopping center in the country's largest city Almaty, the local city hall said in a statement.

Investigators said they had launched criminal probes into possible hooliganism and also neglect of duties by the organizers of the event.

Local media reports said that the disorder broke out when Nurtas, 24, ended his concert prematurely after fans broke through a police cordon to get closer to him on the stage. They then jumped onto the stage and started throwing stones and bottles in apparent frustration, the reports said.

The boyish singer has a particularly avid female following.

Some 90 people were injured in the scuffles that followed the concert and nine of them were hospitalized, a spokesperson for the regional health authority told Agence France Presse.

The shopping center had organised the appearance of Nurtas, who has a huge following in Kazakhstan for his sentimental love ballads, to mark the end of a long-running karaoke competition. They blamed the disturbances on the singer himself, accusing him of letting down his fans by only singing one song.

"He took the decision to leave the stage after clearly getting scared of his own fans. This aroused dissatisfaction among the audience and led to the mass riots," the Prime Plaza statement said.
Posted by: Fred || 09/03/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Arabia
Dubai close to sale of Fontainebleau hotel in Miami
[Al Ahram] Dubai World is expected to finalise sale of 50-percent stake in Miami Beach's landmark Fontainebleau hotel to repay debts
The money to pay for Egypt's living expenses has to come from somewhere...
Posted by: Fred || 09/03/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Nazi murder trial: Ex-SS man in German court
[BBC] Syrian AQ and MB rebels mowing down pro-Assad POW's, no problem. Herr Siert Bruins bad, bad, bad.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/03/2013 03:51 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, at least it's a precedent in the West for those who sit and work in government that some day some one will come for you if you do despicable things because you were 'just obeying orders'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/03/2013 5:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Quite correct P2k, but I've never been able to come to grips with the senseless extermination of one group of people during war, followed by the [desired] extermination of an aging wartime adversary 50, 60, 70, years following the end of hostilities. Perhaps had a lost a loved one in the holocaust or to war crimes, my bias might provoke a different view.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/03/2013 9:15 Comments || Top||


Right Leads in Norway One Week before Election
[An Nahar] Norway's center-right opposition, including a populist anti-immigration party, holds a strong lead over the ruling center-left coalition one week ahead of a general election, two opinion polls indicated on Monday.

A survey published in the online edition of daily Verdens Gang credited the Conservative party, led by Erna Solberg, and its prospective allies, the populist Progress Party and two smaller center-right parties, the Christian Democrats and the Liberals, with 55.6 percent of voter support.

If that score were to be confirmed on voting day September 9, the center-right would obtain 98 of 169 seats in parliament, much more than the 85 seats required to hold an absolute majority.

Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Bugs Moroni was holding Slats from behind while his brother Greasy Thumb was pounding his face into paste ...
incumbent Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's Labor Party and his two coalition parties, the Socialist Left and Center parties, were seen garnering just 38.4 percent and 68 seats.
Posted by: Fred || 09/03/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Runaway prisoner killed in Lakki firing
[Dawn] Two persons including a runaway prisoner of D.I. Khan jail were killed in a firing incident in Burghu Adamzai village here on Saturday night.

Police said that Azizullah and Sajjad Ali came across their rivals in a musical concert arranged in connection with the marriage of a villager.

The rivals opened indiscriminate firing on them and killed both of them on the spot, they added.

Police said that the accused managed to escape after committing the crime while local people shifted the bodies to a nearby hospital.

They said that Azizullah had beat feet from D.I. Khan jail on July 29 when Death Eaters attacked the prison to release their jugged
You have the right to remain silent...
colleagues. He was imprisoned for 25 years in a murder case.

The bodies of both the dear departed were handed over to their relatives for burial after postmortem, police said.

Paperwork was started but nothing else was done against the alleged killers including Khursheed, Begu Khan, Ammal Khan and Abdul Razzaq on the complaint of Rizwan, a relative of the dear departed.
Posted by: Fred || 09/03/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria Tenders Fail, Raising Doubt Over Assad Ability To Buy Food
[Jpost] Syria cancelled an urgent tender to buy sugar on Monday, two weeks after cancelling a bid to buy wheat, the latest signs that Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
's government is losing its ability to buy food as civil war destroys its harvests.

In the failed transactions, Syria offered to pay for the food with funds held in frozen bank accounts abroad. The failures suggest those offers have been rejected by international traders, raising questions over how Assad's government can pay for food imports in the future.

The United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in July that a fifth of Syria's population was unable to produce or buy enough food, and farmers were short of the seed and fertilisers needed to plant the next crop.

In Monday's failed purchase, Syria's General Foreign Trade Organization (GFTO) cancelled a bid to buy 276,000 tonnes of white sugar after receiving only one offer. The tender was a repeat of a smiliar one in July, which also failed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/03/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  Not good if your strategy is to hold the cities.
Posted by: phil_b || 09/03/2013 1:37 Comments || Top||

#2  So "the plan" is to starve the civilians Assad represents in a giant medieval siege...

Good job we haven't got that nasty Bush running things.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/03/2013 9:40 Comments || Top||



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Tue 2013-09-03
  Syria asks UN to 'prevent any aggression'
Mon 2013-09-02
  Taliban target U.S. army base in Nangarhar, attack ongoing
Sun 2013-09-01
  Leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Badie suffers heart attack in jail
Sat 2013-08-31
  Breaking: Obama hands the ball off to Congress
Fri 2013-08-30
  Egypt Police Arrest Senior Islamist Beltagi
Thu 2013-08-29
  Report: 20 Injured In Another Chemical Attack In Syria
Wed 2013-08-28
  DEATH SENTENCE FOR Maj. NIDAL HASAN
Tue 2013-08-27
  Belmokhtar, MUJAO launch new jihadist group
Mon 2013-08-26
  Security forces claim seizure of 500 kgs explosives in Khyber
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  Hungry Boko Haram hard boyz turn cannibal
Sat 2013-08-24
  Twin blasts at Lebanese mosques kill at least 43
Fri 2013-08-23
  Musharraf charged with Benazir's murder
Thu 2013-08-22
  Two Somalis Killed, Swedish Pol Wounded in Mog Attack
Wed 2013-08-21
  Hundreds dead in Syria gas attack
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