Impossible to summarize. RTWT.
Theres a story about Chris Kyle: on a cold January morning in 2010, he pulled into a gas station south of Dallas. Two guys approached him with pistols and demanded his money and the keys to his truck. There's bad luck, and there's really serious bad luck
With his hands in the air, he sized up which man seemed most confident with his gun. Kyle knew what confidence with a gun looked like. He was the deadliest sniper in American history. He had at least 160 confirmed kills by the Pentagons count, but by his own countand the accounts of his Navy SEAL teammatesthe number was closer to twice that. Diane Feinstein would be horrified.
In his four tours of duty in Iraq, Kyle earned two Silver Stars and five Bronze Stars with Valor. Wow, he's almost up there with John Fn' Kerry, except in Kyle's case there was actual shooting involved.
He told the robbers that he just needed to reach back into the truck to get the keys. And they let him, which conclusively proves that the robbers were Democratic Senators.
He turned around and reached under his winter coat instead, into his waistband. With his right hand, he grabbed his Colt 1911. He fired two shots under his left armpit, hitting the first man twice in the chest. "I told youse we shoulda picked the other truck."
Then he turned slightly and fired two more times, hitting the second man twice in the chest. Both men fell dead. Fortunately, no assault rifles were used in the incident.
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Clearly these poor dead men would still be alive iff Chris had waited for the local police to arrive like he's supposed to + carried a single shot pistol or revolver; or that Chris carried a personal button device to quietly activate his car computer which would had sent a 911 signal to the local police station to come to his mighty rescue, thus saving Chris, etal. from death, injury + loss or personal property(s).
IFF CHRIS HAD ONLY RELIED ON THE POLICE + FIRST RESPONSE SERVICES WHOSE BUDGET $$$ KEEP GETTING DIVERETD BY THE GOVT, THESE MEN WOULD BE SAVED.
Just like the Missionaries at the end of "RAMBO IV" whom want to turn in Sly Stallone to the local authorities for killing all the bad guyz + saving their lives, but whom weirdly-n-mysteriously don't want to go back to the enemy camp to be held hostage again by any enemy survivors.
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Couple weeks ago, the now very liberal Dallas Morning News (they were conservative to the core until their competitor, the very liberal Dallas Times Herald shut down, and then they let the cockroaches from the Herald come over to work for them) went after Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys for hosting the Chris Kyles memorial service. FINALLY avertisors stopped advertising in that filthy rag.
Last week when the killer of the Colorado prison warden and the young Colorado pizza carrier was cut down in a gunfight with Texas lawmen, I checked in to see how the Denver Post was responding. Sure enough, all they could editorialize was how much "promise" the Colorado cold blooded killer had.
Most media consists of the most degenerate, rot, unwashed scum that love debased cockroaches and hate heros like Chris Kyle and the men and women in uniform who protect good people.
He was in a white supremist group that is the complete antithemae of what the libs stand for. So just because this raving sociopath was shot to death in that horrible state of Texas, the Denver Post is waxing eloquently about the nut's "Promise?"
Oh please.
I have to go now, I have another nose bleed.
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I'm sure what the Denver Post is really whining about is the "promise and potential" of more juicy stories involving the dead guy, which are now and forever lost.
For some obscure reason no career a$$hole has ever suddenly turned into the next Einstein. Go figure.
[An Nahar] French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, and a fine job he's doing of it... has called on all parties in the Central African Republic "to remain calm and hold talks on a national unity government", after rebels seized control of the capital Bangui, his office said on Sunday.
Hollande noted the departure of President Francois Bozize, called on all parties to form a government in accordance with a peace deal reached in January, and asked "the gangs to respect the population".
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See also DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Al-Jazeera] PARIS CALLS FOR EMERGENCY UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING AFTER REBELS ATTACK CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC'S BANGUI.
and
* SAME > FRENCH TROOPS SECURE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC'S CAPTURED AIRPORT.
It will be interesting iff the Hard Boyz escape to fight anew into the darkest regions = mountains + jungles of African's central regions followed by the French [+ Brits? Euros? US AFRICOM?].
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Kinda late for dialogue. The rebels occupy the Seat of All Power now. Only thing left to do is start a rebel movement to try and oust the oppressors.
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[Guardian Ng] SELEKA rebels in the Central African Republic Sunday said they have seized the presidential palace in Bangui after President Francois Bozize fled the capital.
Reports suggested the president had gone to a neighbouring state. La Belle France's foreign minister confirmed his exit.
The rebels, involved in an on-off rebellion since December, say Mr. Bozize failed to honour a peace deal.
One of the rebel leaders on the ground, Colonel Djouma Narkoyo, was quoted by AFP as saying: "We have taken the presidential palace. Bozize was not there."
He said the rebels were planning to move on to the national radio station in Bangui where rebel leader Michel Djotodia planned to make a speech.
Intense gunfire was reported as rebels advanced through Bangui.
"The rebels control the town," said a front man for the presidency, Gaston Mackouzangba. "I hope there will not be any reprisals."
A Gay Paree-based rebel front man said the rebel leadership was telling its fighters to restrain from "looting or score-settling".
But Amy Martin of the UN's humanitarian agency, OCHA, told the BBC World Service that residents in the capital had begun looting.
"The situation in town is chaotic in the sense than communities are looting properties, private properties, even a paediatric hospital we understand has been looted," she said. "Our main concern right now is at the community level, with the looting and the possible tensions between various ethnic groups."
South African peacekeepers who suffered some casualties have retreated to their barracks and are seeking safe passage to the airport, Ms Martin said.
She added that Bangui has been without power since Saturday, and that this meant water had also been cut.
She also said the situation in the interior thought to be worse than in the capital, more than 170,000 estimated to have been displaced within the country and others fleeing to Chad and the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo or Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
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The Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, has welcomed the transfer of Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda to The Hague to face charges for a range of alleged war crimes. The crimes include rape, murder and the recruitment of children as soldiers.
Ntaganda had been indicted by the ICC on seven counts of war crimes and three counts of crimes against humanity which were committed in the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between 2002 and 2003.
Media reports have claimed he was on the way to the ICC detention centre in The Hague in the Netherlands from Kigali in Rwanda. He had turned himself in at the U.S Embassy in Kigali on Monday.
"This is a good day for victims in the DRC and for international justice," Bensouda said in a statement at the UN Headquarters in New York. Today, those who are alleged to have long suffered at the hands of Bosco Ntaganda can look forward to the future and the prospect of justice taking its course," the prosecutor said.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The main opposition BNP plans to make April a turning point for its one-point demand to oust the Awami League-led government by intensifying street agitation through more frequent road blockades and hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... s.
As part of this strategy, the party is likely to announce today a 48-hour countrywide hartal for Wednesday and Thursday.
A number of party policymakers said the BNP under the banner of the 18-party alliance might go for 48 or 72 hours of hartals and blockades from next month to step up its agitation.
If the situation is favourable, the BNP-Jamaat-led alliance might also go for a "March towards Dhaka" programme and agitate in the capital to cripple the government, the policymakers added.
According to them, success in April will determine the mode of agitation in May.
"The party chief wants to play all-out from now on with no holds barred. So, there may be no break in our agitation from April," said a BNP policymaker, adding that their target was somehow to push the situation beyond the control of the government.
BNP chief Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... yesterday at a rally in Bogra also hinted at demonstrations from Wednesday. She said, "New agitation programmes will be announced tomorrow [today]. The programmes will continue after March 26."
Urging party men to remain ready for the march towards the capital, she said, "Come to Dhaka when I call you. We will return home only after the fall of the government."
BNP policymakers believe the Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... will be more active on the streets during the opposition's upcoming agitation, as the war crimes tribunals may deliver next month the verdicts in the cases against former Jamaat ameer Ghulam Azam and its assistant secretary general Kamaruzzaman.
"We are now struggling for life. The time is ripe. People will enforce any programmes announced by the high command," Abu Taleb Mandal, secretary of Pabna district unit Jamaat, told The Daily Star yesterday.
"The grassroots-level workers do not want any pause in the agitation," he added.
Against this backdrop, it is obvious that the higher secondary examinees will suffer from the opposition's programmes. The examination is scheduled to start from April 1 and finish towards the end of May.
"We will certainly intensify our agitation in April and will not consider any public examinations. They should adjust the schedules with our programmes," BNP big shot Moudud Ahmed told The Daily Star yesterday.
Moudud, a member of the BNP national standing committee, said they had been forced to go for tougher agitation by the government's intolerance and hostile attitude towards the opposition.
Asked about the upcoming programmes, BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain said hartals and blockade are two effective tools of movements in Bangladesh.
"The nature of our agitation will depend on the prevailing situation," he told The Daily Star yesterday.
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Are we not always told here in the US that "if you have nothing to hide..." ???
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The regions leaders backed her up by introducing a uniform that does not allow girls to wear head coverings at all a restriction that affects a population of around 2.7 million. Official statistics say around 10 percent of those residents are Muslim, though the real number may be double that because of unregistered migration, the International Crisis Group has reported.
Registration? I don't need no steenkin' registration, oh yeah! It's World wide and they are everywhere.
[Dawn] Three coppers were killed and five others received serious injuries when lightning hit their post in Ghiljo tehsil of Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... on Saturday.
Sources said that lightning hit the checkpost during heavy rain at around 11 am and killed three coppers on the spot.
The victims were identified as Naik Rabnawaz, Lance Naik Ibrar and Naib Subedar Ali Khan.
Five other coppers identified as Kamran, Arshad Khan, Noor Mohammad, Saifullah and Wali Hamayum were maimed in the incident. The injured coppers were shifted to Combined Military Hospital in Thall, Hangu district ... Hangu is famous for its greenery, hills, beauty and water. Most of the people of this area are Bangash & Orakzai Pashtuns. Part of the Bangash are Shia. The Orakzai and the Sunni Bangash are determined to kill them...
Officials said that the injured men were in stable, pH balanced condition at the hospital.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... rain accompanied with hailstorm lashed various parts of Swabi, including Topi tehsil and Tarbela Dam, on Saturday.
The hailstorm damaged standing wheat crop in some areas of the district. Besides, the storm also hit the tobacco crop planted just a month earlier. Local farmers said that duration of hailstorm was short and it did not cause much damage to the crop.
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NEW DELHI - Advocating harsh punishment for rapists, the Delhi High Court has said those who have ruined the lives of women should not be let off lightly as this can encourage others.
Justice P.K. Bhasin said in a recent order that letting off rapists who committed such a grave offence with lesser punishment would encourage more people to indulge in the crime.
The observation came while hearing an appeal filed by Razzi Ahmed against a trial court order convicting and jailing him for six years for abducting and raping a 14-year-old. The trial court passed its order on October 6, 2003. Razzi had sought lighter punishment on the ground that he was a young boy in January 2001 when the incident happened.
If the courts start getting sympathetic towards persons who commit such serious offences and spoil the lives of young girls for the satisfaction of their sexual lust, more and more persons having such tendencies would get encouraged and more and more young girls would become their prey, Justice Bhasin observed.
He said the convict knew what he was doing and its serious impact on the girl and there was no justification for letting him off with lesser punishment.
The appellant-convict certainly knew ... those inhuman acts of his must have had a serious impact on her, physical as well as emotional, and such scars cannot get washed off throughout her life, the judge said.
The court said Razzi should consider himself lucky that he was not awarded a longer term and instead was sentenced to the minimum punishment for raping a minor.
The accused had said as he was 18 years old in 2001 he should be let off with minimum punishment. Razzi also said he is married and has four children.
How'd he manage to do that while in prison?
For his conviction for the offence of rape of a minor girl, he was awarded the minimum sentence of imprisonment provided by the legislature and he should consider himself to be lucky not to have been awarded a longer period of stay in jail, Justice Bhasin said. So, I am not inclined to show any sympathy to the appellant-convict in the matter of punishment.
The court dismissed his appeal and asked police to take him into custody so that he can serve the rest of his sentence.
The accused was on bail while he filed the appeal in the high court.
Oh, that's how. Seems like he's had his fun and now can do his time.
According to the prosecution, on Jan 3, 2001, the victims father told police that his daughter had not returned home from school. The victim was tracked in Bihar a few days later with Ahmed.
The girl told police Razzi forcibly took her to Bihar at knifepoint. The accused had threatened to kill her and her brother if she did not accompany him. He kept the girl in a hotel and raped her for many days, the prosecution said. Razzi contended that the victim was a consenting party but the girl denied this, saying she could not offer any resistance as Razzi was torturing her.
Relying on the victims version, the high court held that when the girl was kidnapped and raped, she was below the age of 15 years and, therefore, her consent, if at all it was there, was immaterial and inconsequential.
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Pink Floyds Roger Waters took partial credit for Stevie Wonders decision to not perform at a Friends of the Israel Defense Forces event.
In an interview with pro-Palestinian media outlet Electronic Intifada, Waters said he was one of several celebrities who wrote to Wonder in an effort to dissuade him from playing at the Los Angeles gala in December.
Waters said, I wrote a letter to him saying that this would be like playing a police ball in Johannesburg the day after the Sharpeville massacre in 1960. It wouldnt be a great thing to do, particularly as he was meant to be a UN ambassador for peace.
He said South African leader Bishop Desmund Tutu also sent Wonder a similar message.
Waters compared Israels treatment of Palestinians with apartheid and argued sanctions against Israel were the most effective way to go. Waters supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against the Jewish state.
He said, I think that the kind of boycott that was implemented against the apartheid regime in South Africa back in the day is probably the most effective way to go because the situation is that the Israeli government runs an apartheid regime in Israel, the occupied territories and everywhere else it decides. Let us not forget that they laid waste most of Lebanon around the time I started getting involved in this issue. They destroyed airports, hospitals, any public buildings they could.
Waters, one of the creative forces behind the rock band Pink Floyd, complained that the US media had intentionally ignored covering his protests against Israel in recent years, speculating it was under instructions from somewhere not to report these things to the American public, on what grounds I cannot guess.
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D *** NG IT, clearly Israel must be severely punished for Egypt + Jordan refusing to give up their sovereignty claims on Gaza + the West Bank to the Paleos to be their State!
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I love the music of Pink Floyd, but Waters has been a far-left moonbat since... well, since his dad was killed at Anzio in WWII when Roger was an infant and he grew up a confused, lonely, bastard. In the truest sense of the word. I only pity him. Too bad Stevie Wonder gave Waters' opinions any consideration. If he (Wonder) did, that is.
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He was a big star in the 70s but his band is kaput and he hasn't come up with any new material since then. Even then his songs were all about war and madness, never any love songs and never anything the least bit uplifting. Paul McCartney he is not.
As for South Africa, I think the jury is out as to whether they are better off now than they were before. And just think, if there were no Israelis, how "Palestine" would be. The Palestinians had their chance in Gaza to show the world what they could do and now its an international basket case full of hateful little losers. I used to think Waters was a smart guy...
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I remember someone once referring to The Wall as an "ode to Roger Waters' ego"
Americans had their own music - rock'n'roll, jazz, blues,folk, etc. - but they made a choice: they threw their support behind a bunch of narcissistic Brits, namely, Beatles, Stones, Led Zeppelin, Floyd, Bowie, etc. They were all bona fide experts at exploiting teenagers and made themselves super wealthy in the process. America is poorer for that choice in more ways than one.
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.
[An Nahar] French President 
The Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, has welcomed the transfer of Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda to The Hague to face charges for a range of alleged war crimes. The crimes include rape, murder and the recruitment of children as soldiers.
Khaleda Zia
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Pink Floyds Roger Waters took partial credit for Stevie Wonders decision to not perform at a Friends of the Israel Defense Forces event.
