[Breitbart] The State of Israel may not send a senior political figure--either President Shimon Peres or Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu--to South Africa for the memorial or funeral of former President Nelson Mandela this week, citing costs and security concerns. Similarly, the Dalai Lama--often associated in popular culture with Mandela as a symbol of peace--will not be attending either, after being repeatedly denied entry visas. Wise decision by Israel.
[Pak Daily Times] An elephant broke out of a Rome circus on Friday, causing panic and drawing crowds of curious residents as she wandered around a northern suburb before being cornered by police, Italian press reported.
The elephant, named Mia, had almost reached a motorway exit road after two hours on the run by the time police caught up with her. "Put the peanuts down and step away with your trunk up!"
The circus owners recaptured her as she stopped at a roundabout during a moment of indecision, the news agency Ansa said.
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Elephant : "I lost my rider, I know he is around here somewhere.... This is Rome .... and I will... until he turns up."
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These Tea Party Republicans cause panic where ever they go.
/liberal
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Once there was a pelican
Who tried to be the Prelican--
No! no! I mean a pelident
Who tried to be the President--
He was clean and he could speak,
And jeebus, could he fill his beak!
Finally the fish fought back; his bill
Was all entangled on the Hill;
The more he tried to pull it loose,
The closer loomed the calaboose--
(I'm sorry! Did I slant this mix
Of Presicant and pelitics?)
A South Carolina sheriff is refusing to lower the American flag in tribute to Nelson Mandela, saying the honor should be reserved for American citizens. Actaully, that's kind of rude.
President Barack Obama ordered flags lowered to half-staff for the international icon until sunset Monday. Mainly, I think, because he thinks he and Mandela were in the same club, i.e., presidents that just everybody loves.
But Pickens County Sheriff Rick Clark says not in his department. Not within your department to decide, Sheriff.
I thought the president only commands federal employees. I believe sheriffs work for counties -- smaller than states but bigger than towns and villages. Wasn't that the rationale for sheriff whatsisname in Arizona to arrest illegal aliens on his turf when the feds refused to do so?
"It's just my simple opinion that the flag should only be lowered to half-staff for Americans who sacrificed for their country," Clark told CNN affiliate WHNS. If they could be lowered for Winston Churchill, they can be lowered for Nelson Mandela.
It should be lowered at the U.S. Embassy in South Africa, he said, but not at home. Probably there are more important things to pick fights about.
The flag in his department was lowered over the weekend to honor a fallen law enforcement officer and for Pearl Harbor Day. But it will stay up Sunday, he said. A slap in the face of South Africa, but a pretty eentsy one. If the chief of police in Witwatersrand says something stoopid about the U.S.A. and we never hear of it, did he really say it? Or is it simply another "microaggression?" (I'm actually starting to like that word--it covers so much stoopidity!)
"I have no problem lowering it in South Africa in their country but not for our country. It should be the people who have sacrificed for our country." But I believe that's mere opinion.
A spokesman for the department said the sheriff cannot be disciplined. "Why should we bother?"
"He's not breaking a law. It's his decision. And I support the decision of the sheriff," Chief Deputy Creed Hashe said. "My mother, drunk or sober!"
Mandela became the symbol of the fight against racial discrimination in South Africa and served 27 years behind bars for defying the apartheid government. He died Thursday at age 95. Mandela was a rarity: a man who was a terrorist in his younger days, who redeemed himself. South Africa could have been Zim-Bob-we, or it could have become one of the nondescript afrodictatorships that have abounded on the rest of the continent. It has lots of problems and will continue to have them, but primarily because of Mandela its Mugabes were stillborn.
Though rare, the lowering of flags for foreign citizens is nothing new. George W. Bush did it for Pope John Paul II eight years ago. Bill Clinton did it when former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in the 1990s. In fact, the practice goes as far back as 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson ordered flags lowered for former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. I think I mentioned that in passing...
But not all world leaders get the honor. And Bob was so counting on it...
This year, Obama issued a statement expressing his condolences for the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. But he did not order the flag lowered. If it had been Harold Wilson it might have been a different story.
American presidents can issue the executive order at their discretion, the Flag Code states. In general, presidents reserve the honor for major national figures, including governors and foreign dignitaries. The code says it's only a guide and it does not offer penalties for noncompliance.
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Me thinks the Honorable Sheriff Richard "Rick" Clark may not have received the message from the 1 as originally transmitted, hence it was a "breakdown in communications" which caused him to act in a manner befitting a thinking US citizen. After all the 1 was likely in Africa when he "ordered" flags to be flown at 1/2 staff for an ANC leader, murderer, and all around nobel prize winner/"they all stick together don't you know"
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I'm sorry Besoeker, gut feeling about the likely end of those chickens is
by the way, I would like some frys with that...
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I'm sorry but the image that Murdering Terrorist Mandela will always bring to my mind is that of people with gas filled tires burning around their neck and shoulders. He was vile, sub human vermin and he deserved to die like those he ordered killed.
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Second silentbrick, he was vermin, regardless of the "Whitewash" Given by the media, my memory is long, and I remember the news (That the Media wants us to forget) About Mandella.
The Sheriff is right, he doesn't bear remembering favorably, he was a thug.
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I don't care if Mandela was Pricess Anne. He wasn't an American and the Sheriff is. I agree with the Sheriff. Mandela may have been whoop ti do, but if the Media kisses his ass I know who the media are. And I am going to wipe my mouth and go the other way.
It's just my simple opinion that the flag should only be lowered to half-staff for Americans who sacrificed for their country," Clark told CNN affiliate WHNS.
The Sheriff sounds fine to me.
I have a flag on the front porch. It never even occurred to me to lower it for Mandela. Didn't even cross my mind.
And what Obama "mandates" is donkey patooty to me.
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I'm with the sheriff on this one. Once a great and rare honor, the symbolic lowering of the flag seems to have become a frequent occurrence. Virtue in old age cannot erase depths of evil in youth.
We all do and believe many things that we come to regret later -- or at least, shake our heads at. I can't say with any certainty that, if I was black and raised in the thorned bosom of apartheid South Africa, I wouldn't have been as radical as hell. I've often responded with anger, when I should have had a cooler head.
Mandela developed a cooler head, and he prevailed.
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I think we are meant to assume that because the Sheriff is in SC that this must somehow be racially motivated. And since this must have been racist, that any refusal to worship the late Mandella must also be.
Well, f*ck that.
We do not honor Mandella because he deserves no honor. He was a mudering terrorist. He won in the end, which does not redeem him one bit.
Anyone paying attention to Obama's behaviour could be forgiven for assuming that the man loves terrorists -- the more anti-American the better. So no surprises there. But kudos to the one person willing to stand up and say that ain't right.
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"Obamas, Bushes to travel to South Africa for Mandela funeral.Bushes, Obamas to travel to South Africa for Mandela funeral
The article pointed to is a WAPO article. Curiously, and almost as an after thought it seems, the following paragraph is in the article towards the end:
"Former president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, along with former president Jimmy Carter, will also attend memorials for Mandela in South Africa."
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It just seems that with all the Bush bashing in the first term and into the second term, the WAPO article makes it sound as Obama is trying to chum up to George W.
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the WAPO article makes it sound as Obama is trying to chum up to George W
George's standing is much higher in Africa. Did a lot in pushing funding for the fight against AIDS which was running rampant at the time. Been back there a couple of times on Habitat type work. Unlike the current resident-in-chief, he never did the photo-op self aggrandizement type trips. Like a lot of stuff, the RIC likes to latch on to others to gather some of the attention and adulation.
Barack and Michelle Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, George and Laura Bush will all figuratively wear a necklace at Nelson Mandelas memorial tomorrowthe Winnie Mandela necklace that is the most grotesque one of all time.
The prime ministers of Canada and Britain, Stephen Harper and David Cameron will wear the necklace, too. But none of the world leaders at the Mandela funeralDaily Mail touted as the biggest funeral in the world since Winston Churchillwill hear the screams of the young blacks who died in agony wearing the Winnie Mandela necklace.
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I hope that someday (soon) someone will light her own personal necklace for her, and send her to HELL as she so rightly deserves.
I usually don't wish such a death on anyone, but I'm willing to make a special exception just for her.
She's going to burn in Hell eventually; it would be poetic justice if she were sent there the same way. >:-(
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Barry's 20th century is Lech-less
'Cause conservativism is reckless!
He'll ignore Ronnie's stature
And disdain Lady Thatcher
As he bows to the queen of the necklace.
[An Nahar] Colombia's FARC rebels declared a 30-day unilateral ceasefire on Sunday and urged the government to do the same in the wake of a deadly bombing blamed on the guerillas.
The announcement, effective December 15, came in a statement issued in the Cuban capital where the FARC and Bogota are in talks to end their decades-long conflict.
"In a unilateral manner we order all our units ... to cease fire and hostilities for 30 days," said the statement read to news hounds by FARC front man Pablo Catatumbo.
At the same time, the statement ordered its fighters to "remain alert for any enemy operations" and to respond to these "without delay."
The rebels also said they hoped the government of President Juan Manuel Santos would "respond to this gesture by suspending operations."
The announcement came at the end of the latest round of peace talks in Havana aimed at ending unrest that has left hundreds of thousands of dead and displaced more than 4.5 million people.
It also followed a deadly bombing in the town of Inza Saturday that was immediately blamed on the Sixth Unit of 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. .
The government delegation, headed by former vice-president Humberto de la Calle, left the location of the talks without comment. Negotiations are set to resume December 17.
At the start of talks in November 2012, the Marxist rebels unilaterally declared a ceasefire for two months but lifted it after the Santos government refused to reciprocate.
Arguing that agreeing to a ceasefire would give the FARC a strategic advantage, Santos has resisted loosening pressure on the rebels before a peace deal is struck.
As Colombia's largest rebel group, the FARC has 7,000 to 8,000 fighters.
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Idiots, a unilateral cease fire plays directly into the hands of your enemy, You stop shooting, and they don't, Idiot.
And if you shoot back, you're at fault, after all, you promised.
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Idiots, a unilateral cease fire plays directly into the hands of your enemy, You stop shooting, and they don't, Idiot.
And if you shoot back, you're at fault, after all, you promised.
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[Pak Daily Times] Venezuelans vote in municipal elections on Sunday that are the biggest political test yet for President Nicolas Maduro as he tries to halt an economic slide and preserve the radical socialist legacy of his late mentor Hugo Chavez.
The outcome of the ballots to choose 337 mayors and 2,523 councillors will be seen as a sign of Maduro's strength, nine months after Chavez died from cancer and he narrowly beat opposition leader Henrique Capriles to win the presidency. The opposition portrays Maduro as a buffoonish autocrat with none of his predecessor's political savvy, and says his economic policies have been a disaster for the OPEC nation.
Maduro, a burly 51-year-old former bus driver, says his "treasonous" rivals are colluding with U.S. financiers to try to drive him from power, but that "Chavismo" is stronger than ever.
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Jeez, this is like swinging a dead cat...no booby wins except the cat.
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...Honestly not sure why even a single newspaper reports on this anymore. If they absolutely have to, the headline should read, "Chavezistas To Steal Yet Another Election; Venezuelans To Test New Depths Of Stupidity".
Mike
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Democracy (or the appearance thereof) is the preferred path to dictatorship these days. I trust the outcome not even a little bit.
[An Nahar] Ukrainians protesting against the government's rejection of a key pact with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... on Sunday toppled the statue of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin in central Kiev, police said.
"People in masks toppled the statue of Lenin," a police spokeswoman told Agence La Belle France Presse, saying they brandished the flag of Ukraine's nationalist Freedom Party and threw flares. Lenin, the founder of the Soviet state, is a figure of hate for Ukrainian nationalists.
Television pictures showed the empty plinth of the Lenin statue on Bessarabia Square surrounded by jubilant protesters who hacked away with axes at the remnants of the monument lying flat on the ground. Reports said the statue's head had already been decapitated.
Parts of the statue were then brought to the main demonstration on Independence Square where speakers triumphantly brandished a massive hand of the Lenin figure.
The red granite, 3.45 meter (11 feet) high statue had first been erected in December 1946 just after World War II ended.
Leading opposition politician Andriy Shevchenko said that the toppling of the statue had not been an initiative of the opposition leaders on Independence Square. "We can say that people organized themselves," he said.
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OK, I'll concede that "Imagine" is an anthem to mush-brained hippie philosophy, but that's no reason to be tearing down public works.
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I "Imagine" tearing down his statue, But I wouldn't like it, it bears remembering that Russia worships him, much like we remember Lincoln, and it's disrespectful.
Yes, I'm a'gin it. It's poor taste.
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Lenun used gasses on peasants and orderd that those who din't rally had _all_ their grain confiscated. That was death sentence for thosechildren who had perpetrated the horrible crime of being born in the wrong familiy.
Molotov who knew them both said Lenin was much worse than Stalin. May lenin and all those who honor him burn in hell!!!!
As for JFM's comment, it is a source of great puzzlement how how the heroes of the Communist pantheon get a pass on being some of the greatest mass murderers in history. And don't get me started on that business about Nazis being right-wingers.
[Pak Daily Times] Hundreds of thousands of pro-EU Ukrainians rallied in Kiev on Sunday for a new protest aimed at forcing President Viktor Yanukovych to resign after he sparked fury by rejecting an EU pact under Kremlin pressure.
Waving EU and Ukrainians flags as well as the red-and-black banners of the wartime anti-communist Ukrainian Insurgent Army, around 200,000 demonstrators filled Kiev's iconic Independence Square to bursting point.
Jailed Ukrainian ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko said the opposition was demanding the "immediate" resignation of Yanukovych, in a statement to the mass rally read by her daughter that was met by chants of "resign!" from the throng.
"Yanukovych took a decision to join the club of dictators," Yevgenia Tymoshenko quoted her mother as saying in a message from detention. "We must peacefully and legally oust him from power."
"He is no longer the president of our state, he is a tyrant who must answer for every drop of blood that has been shed," she added.
Some of the protesters wore helmets in an apparent attempt to protect themselves in the event of possible festivities with riot police as a priest read a prayer from stage.
Trademark nationalist chants reverberated through the overcrowded Kiev metro as more protesters sought to join the protest. "Glory to Ukraine!" they shouted. "Glory to heroes!" replied others.
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[Pak Daily Times] A stunning performance by an upstart anti-corruption party helped topple India's ruling Congress in elections to New Delhi's state assembly Sunday, only months before the country goes to the polls.
Congress, in power at national level for a decade, was also in danger of losing control of three other state assemblies up for grabs in Sunday's vote count, in a devastating blow ahead of next year's general election.
"All I can say is that the people of Delhi have taken a decision which we respect," said Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit as it became clear that Congress would come a distant third in Delhi after 15 years in power.
"We will analyse later what went wrong," added Dikshit, who lost her own seat to Arvind Kejriwal, leader of the fledgling Aam Aadmi Party (Common People's Party).
Kejriwal, who only started his party a year ago, said his was a "victory of the people".
"I am absolutely confident that finally the country will win, the people will win and democracy will win," added the former civil servant, who has tapped into growing anger over corruption during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's tenure.
Aam Aadmi would even manage to prevent the main Hindu nationalist opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from winning a majority in New Delhi, according to forecasts from the electoral commission.
The BJP had either won or was leading in 31 of the Delhi assembly seats while Aam Aadmi was in line to capture 27 seats. Congress trailed in third with a forecast tally of just nine, down from 43.
Official forecasts based on partial results showed the BJP would record landslide wins in the states of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, although it had only a slender lead over Congress in restive Chhattisgarh.
The elections for the four states have been held at different points over the last month but the counting had been postponed until Sunday. Votes will be counted in the remote Congress-ruled state of Mizoram on Monday.
Aam Aadmi only fielded candidates in New Delhi but the results will increase expectations that it will run nationwide when the world's largest democracy holds its general election, by next May at the latest.
"We have succeeded in altering the political discourse of the elections," Atishi Marlena, one of Kejriwal's top lieutenants, told the NDTV network. "I think it's historic that a party that was formed just a year ago, a party which was written off till yesterday by the other two big parties, has made such a spectacular debut."
Triumphant Aam Aadmi supporters at party headquarters waved brooms -- the symbol of its pledge to clean up politics.
BJP activists celebrated in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, dancing to the beat of drums, bursting firecrackers and waving the party's lotus symbol.
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For India's sake I hope this isn't one of those "anti-corruption" parties that only complains that they're not the ones in charge of the corruption.
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...or utterly inept. The record seems to indicate people will put up with corruption as long as 'the trains run on time' (schools are apparently exempted from these categories of third rail events).
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For India's sake I hope this isn't one of those "anti-corruption" parties that only complains that they're not the ones in charge of the corruption.
Only time will tell. The Aam Aadmi Party is just barely a year old.
Yes, Sheila's surname is unusual, to Americans. Indians don't make the connection. I've rarely heard English speaking Indians use the word the shit, except my wife. And for that I take full responsibility.
I'm a bad influence.
Dikshit or Dikshitar (Hindi: दीक्षित) is a Hindu family name. The word is an adjective form of the Sanskrit word diksha, meaning provider of knowledge.
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So, would the the family patriarch be referred to as the Dikshit Head?
[Pak Daily Times] Worried by US spying revelations, India has begun drawing up a new email policy to help secure government communications, but the man responsible for drafting the rules still regularly uses Hotmail.
Like many of his peers in ministries across New Delhi, IT Minister Kapil Sibal's office recently sent an email inviting journalists to the launch of his new personal website using the free email service.
Others, including senior foreign ministry officials, the information and broadcasting minister and the health ministry secretary, also use Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo instead of their government accounts.
When asked why he continued to use his Hotmail for official use, Sibal declined to comment, but a senior bureaucrat in his ministry admitted that he personally preferred Gmail because it is "just a lot easier".
"We keep moving, get different designations, go different places and with that, our emails change. You lose contacts and important emails, which you don't need to worry about with a Gmail account," the bureaucrat told AFP.
"To be honest, the quality of our official mail isn't that great yet. It still needs some work," he added on condition of anonymity.
IT security expert Sunil Abraham said the use of Gmail and the like was highly risky since the American services had their servers in the US and the National Security Agency has been known to tap into their database systems.
It is unclear how many state and federal public workers actively use popular email services for office, but some of the estimates are startling.
"As much as 90 percent of government officials use private email (services) for official use... that's because their official email is not as stable or speedy," said Abraham, executive director of the Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society.
In September Sibal's ministry announced a new "Email Policy of the Government of India" in the wake of spying allegations about the NSA revealed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
NSA's tentacles not only crept into the Indian embassy in Washington and its UN office in New York, but also accessed email and chat messenger contact lists of hundreds of millions of ordinary citizens worldwide, according to media reports.
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[Pak Daily Times] Thailand's embattled premier said Sunday she was willing to call an election to end mass anti-government protests as the kingdom's political crisis deepened with the mass resignation of opposition MPs.
Bangkok is bracing for another major anti-government demonstration on Monday, with protest leaders vowing a final showdown in efforts to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and curb the political influence of her brother Thaksin. "We decided to quit as MPs to march with the people against the Thaksin regime," Democrat Party politician Sirichok Sopha said. The kingdom has been rocked by several episodes of political bloodshed since Thaksin, a billionaire tycoon-turned-premier, was ousted by royalist generals in a coup seven years ago.
Yingluck's government has been shaken by more than a month of rolling rallies by demonstrators, sometimes numbering in their tens of thousands, who want to suspend the country's democracy in favour of an unelected "People's Council". Yingluck on Sunday renewed her offer of elections if the protesters -- a mix of royalists, middle class Thais and other Thaksin opponents -- agree to respect the democratic process. "The government is ready to dissolve the house if the majority wants it," she said in a televised address, noting that under the kingdom's laws an election would have to be held within 60 days.
But "if protesters or a major political party do not accept that or do not accept the result of the election, it will just prolong the conflict," she said. The protest leaders have said that they would not be satisfied with new elections, leaving the two sides locked in a stalemate that risks scaring off foreign investors and tourists. "An unelected government would affect the country's reputation and stability," Yingluck warned. "If protesters want that, it should be asked whether it is the desire of the majority."
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F - That Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra , start ruling by decree... if you do not know how to do that, call the guy who lives here ... he'll tell you how it is done... he has been doing it since Jan 2009 and likely will until Jan 2017.
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Shinawatra has the rural vote and will win any election. The urban middle class opposing her simply don't have the numbers.
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.
[Pak Daily Times] An elephant broke out of a Rome circus on Friday, causing panic and drawing crowds of curious residents as she wandered around a northern suburb before being cornered by police, Italian press reported.
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
[Pak Daily Times] Venezuelans vote in municipal elections on Sunday that are the biggest political test yet for President Nicolas Maduro as he tries to halt an economic slide and preserve the radical socialist legacy of his late mentor Hugo Chavez.
