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Fox just reported that Dr. Kermit Gosnell has been found GUILTY of first degree murder on three of the four counts that he faced. On the fourth, he was found not guilty of first degree murder.
Details to follow. The first degree convictions could get him the death penalty.
[Al Ahram] Morocco's second largest political party has announced it is withdrawing from the ruling coalition, and that could lead to the fall of the Islamist-led government brought in by the Arab Spring.
Adil Benhamza, front man for the center-right Istiqlal (independence) party, said Sunday that its decision has been presented to the king, who will decide the future of the government and whether new elections are held.
The party made the decision Saturday night after months of expressing its dissatisfaction with its Islamist coalition partner.
The Islamist Party for Justice and Development won the most seats in the November 2011 election, buoyed by a pro-reform sentiment surrounding the Arab Spring. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... the government's reform attempts have been stymied by an economic crisis and infighting with coalition partners.
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[Dawn] The corpse count from the collapse of a garment factory complex in Bangladesh rose to 1,125 on Sunday after 15 more bodies were found in the rubble overnight, 19 days after the disaster struck.
Senior government official Zillur Chowdhury told AFP that the corpse count in one of the world's worst industrial disasters "stands at 1,125" and could rise further as cranes and bulldozers have yet to move all the rubble.
More than 3,000 garment workers were on shift at the nine-storey Rana Plaza complex, where they made clothing for Western retailers including Britannia's Primark and Spain's Mango when the building caved in on April 24.
Officials overseeing the disaster operation have said a total of 2,438 people have been rescued from the ruins of the building which housed a total of five garment factories in the town of Savar, a suburb of the capital Dhaka.
An eighteen-year-old garment worker known only as Reshma was the last to be pulled out alive on Friday after she spent 17 days under the rubble. Doctors said she was recovering at a military hospital and was out of danger.
"She is fine and improving fast. I talked to her just a few minutes back.
She said she had a good sleep and had her breakfast," military doctor Fakrul Islam told AFP.
Islam, who is part of the medical team treating the seamstress, said: "Her mother also spent the night with her in the bed next to her. She'll be staying with her until she recuperates fully."
Major General Chowdhury Hassan Suhrawardy who is heading the rescue operation told a press briefing late Saturday that Reshma survived by drinking rainwater and eating "some food" from the lunch boxes of co-workers.
Scores of distraught people continued to mass at the disaster site, desperate for news of their loved ones as efforts to identify the victims were hampered by the decomposition of bodies.
Recovery workers, drawn from the ranks of the army and fire service, wore masks and used air freshener as they collected DNA evidence to identify the bodies so some compensation could be paid to their families.
Fearful that Western brand names may turn their back on Bangladesh, the government announced a new high-level panel last week, which would inspect thousands of clothing factories for building flaws.
The April 24 collapse was the latest in a string of deadly accidents to hit the garment industry.
A factory fire in Dhaka killed eight people on Thursday. Another fire last November killed 111 garment workers, the worst blaze in the history of the country's textile industry.
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the worst blaze in the history of the country's textile industry.
Until now.
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It will take more than four or five months of data to determine whether the sequester has had a significant adverse effect on the U.S. economy. But, thus far, the answer seems to be no.
Economic growth during the first calendar quarter of 2013 was at a 2.5% annual rate. This was above 2012′s full-year growth rate of 2.2%. As for employment, according to the B table data in the Employment Situation Reports from the U.S. Department of Labor, the first four months of 2013 have seen nearly 800,000 jobs created. On an annualized basis, this is a faster job creation rate than 2012. Sometimes when you lie with numbers, they come back and bite you.
The weekly report on initial jobless claims has seen numbers move lower rather than up and are at truly non-recessionary levels. Other reports such as the Challenger layoff report indicate the same.
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scandal #4 - find the emails that directed the cuts most painful to the public be made first and loudest
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scandal #4 - find the emails that directed the cuts most painful to the public be made first and loudest
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SOFIA - Bulgarian ousted premier Boyko Borisov's party came first in tense elections Sunday but fell short of a majority, exit polls showed, setting the scene for political stalemate and fresh protests.
Three months after the biggest demonstrations in years prompted the former bodyguard to tender his government's resignation, Borisov's GERB party won between 30.4 and 34 percent of the vote, the exit polls showed. In second place was the socialist BSP party on between 25.3 and 27.1 percent, followed by the Turkish minority party MRF on 10-11.5 percent and the ultra-nationalist Ataka on 7.3-8.6 percent.
It remained unclear yet if a fifth party would pass the 4.0 percent threshold to win seats in the legislature in the European Union's poorest country.
The tight vote also made it impossible for pollsters to say if GERB could muster a slim majority together with Ataka -- which used to back their previous majority cabinet but turned against them as the vote drew near.
"There is no way for Ataka to back GERB," snapped Ataka's flamboyant leader Volen Siderov late Sunday.
"Bulgaria needs stability and if parties are responsible they should back even a minority cabinet," GERB's campaign manager and ex-interior minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said.
The Socialists and their previous coalition partner MRF were also just short of majority in the 240-seat parliament, the exit polls suggested. BSP have earlier said they favoured an anti-crisis cabinet of technocrats with broad support.
Since 'technocrats' are, in Europe, usually overly-educated Socialists...
"The results are very tight. The fifth player, if there is one, could be kingmaker," Gallup analyst Andrey Raychev said.
"There is a big risk there will be a deadlocked parliament," added another analyst, Ognyan Minchev.
"This is a goodbye for GERB. They will not govern the country," Gallup analyst Kancho Stoychev said, adding that a scandal-ridden campaign and allegations about vote-rigging had put GERB in "total isolation."
About 50 percent of the 6.9 million Bulgarians eligible to vote turned up at the stations Sunday, the polls showed. The first official results were not expected until late morning on Monday, with the allocation of parliamentary seats not until several days after that.
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[Dawn] Chief of the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... has reportedly alleged rigging in the election after accepting defeat while also indicating that the party would sit in the opposition benches of the National Assembly.
Khan's allegations came a day after Paks went to polls in a historic general elections which would see a smooth transition of power from one democratically elected government to another.
His first public remarks, made in a televised statement, came 17 hours after his main rival, former prime minister and chief of Pakistain Moslem League -- Nawaz (PML-N) Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... , declared victory.
Khan had vowed that the polls would sweep his PTI into power.
On Saturday, Sharif declared victory in the May 11 national polls, saying his party would fulfil all the promises made to the people of Pakistain.
Sharif added that he was certain that his party would emerge as the single largest party that needed no outside support or "borrowed seats".
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Eating more insects could help fight world hunger, according to a new UN report.
The report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization says that eating insects could help boost nutrition and reduce pollution.
It notes than over 2 billion people worldwide already supplement their diet with insects.
However it admits that "consumer disgust" remains a large barrier in many Western countries.
Wasps, beetles and other insects are currently "underutilised" as food for people and livestock, the report says. Insect farming is "one of the many ways to address food and feed security".
"Insects are everywhere and they reproduce quickly, and they have high growth and feed conversion rates and a low environmental footprint," according to the report.
...I'm conflicted between pride and apprehension...
In the comments:
It's the... ION Tiger /
It's the thrill of the flight /
rising up to the challenge of those gliders /
And the gas powered drones cannot last overnight /
so they're switching the squad over TOOOOOOOOOO.... ION Tigers....
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Do you think he knows that H2 is produced via steam reformation of methane (not windmills).
Then energy is used to cool and compress the H2 (mostly coal).
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Yes, another display of Left(tm) racism. When its white kids at the movie in CO or school children in CT its worth days and days of coverage. If its a building body count in Chicago or mass shooting in NO, it's acceptable to consider it just part of the local ethnic culture.
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Doesn't fit the widely published story, so ignore it.
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Theaters, parades, running marathons, protest marches, fireworks displays, the lovely divorcee next door, boiled peanuts and green bananas....... I stays away from'em. :-(
I'm posting this, though not WoT-related, given the gun control arguments from this year, and the need for an armed citizenry to protect our republic. It's interesting just how much gun-related crime, homicides and other crimes, have decreased over the last 20 years. I had thought both had gone down slightly, but this isn't even close. Facts contained here come from federal surveys, a point you should make when you cite these data to your liberal friends. If the CDC says it, it has to be true, right?
According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 64 percent of Americans who favor stricter gun control laws in the United States also have the misperception that gun crime has gone up in the past 20 years. A plurality (43 percent) of those who oppose stricter gun control say gun crime has decreased.
Interestingly, 54 percent of Democrats think gun crime has increased in the US over the past 20 years, compared to 29 percent of Republicans and 25 percent of Independents.
Which drives the justification by Democrats for 'gun control' -- take away the notion that gun crime has increased, indeed it's gone down by half or more, and you take away the claimed (by them) justification for gun control. Expect the NYT not to carry this report.
Recent reports from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Pew Research Center shows gun crime has significantly declined since the 1990s. NPR writes:
"Firearm-related homicides dropped from 18,253 homicides in 1993 to 11,101 in 2011," according to a report by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, "and nonfatal firearm crimes dropped from 1.5 million victimizations in 1993 to 467,300 in 2011.
There were seven gun homicides per 100,000 people in 1993, the Pew Research Center study says, which dropped to 3.6 gun deaths in 2010. The study relied in part on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Compared with 1993, the peak of U.S. gun homicides, the firearm homicide rate was 49 percent lower in 2010, and there were fewer deaths, even though the nation's population grew," according to the Pew study. "The victimization rate for other violent crimes with a firearm--assaults, robberies and sex crimes--was 75 percent lower in 2011 than in 1993."
Although gun crime has significantly decreased since the 1990s, few Americans are aware of it. A Pew Research Poll found only 12 percent of Americans think gun crime is lower and 56 percent say crimes involving guns are higher. Women (65 percent) are significantly more likely than men (46 percent) to think gun crime has increased.
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Don't forget labeling as well. Shoot a lot of people in New Orleans on Mothers Day and it's just 'street violence', do it in a movie theater or school and its labeled and sold as something else. MSM MiniTrue must be working overtime.
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So, Democrats are Mentaly Defective, I knew that.
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If gun crime is up then we need to take your guns in order to protect the people.
If gun crime is down then you have no reason to have guns, so we'll take them.
Heads we win, tails you lose.
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The worst thing you can do to these people is ignore them, I Ignore them.
When the truth starts to hurt(Criminals Shoot these People and their families at a school shooting, with "Mass Destruction Assault Weapons", Gee too bad).
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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.
It will take more than four or five months of data to determine whether the sequester has had a significant adverse effect on the U.S. economy. But, thus far, the answer seems to be no.
Nawaz Sharif
