An Ohio woman was charged yesterday with disorderly conduct for going into a Walmart and distributing sexually explicit material accusing a store exployee of having an affair with her husband.
Beverly Rolston, 45, arrived at the Walmart in late-November and headed to the electronics department, where a former friend, 45-year-old Amy Kreiner, worked, police reported.
A store surveillance camera recorded Rolston "posting and distributing pictures of Ms. Kreiner with the words 'Number One Dick Sucker' and 'Hide Your Husbands' written on the pictures," according to a Middletown Division of Police report. Investigators added that, "Also posted with the pictures is a photo of a female with exposed breasts performing oral sex on a man."
Rolston's pictures, cops noted, "were posted in plain view of all the public, including children to see." Rolston entered the Walmart around midnight, so it is unclear how many minors would have been in the electronics department at that hour.
When police later confronted Rolston at her home, she confessed to distributing the images. "She advised she was upset with Ms. Kreiner for having a year long affair with her husband," a cop noted. Rolston's spouse Robert, 37, confirmed the affair during a conversation with the officer.
Rolston was originally charged with pandering obscenities, a felony. However, after her case was bound over to a higher court, a grand jury recently declined to pursue charges. In response, prosecutors yesterday filed a reduced disorderly conduct charge against Rolston.
The annual Conservative Political Action Conference came to a raucous and buoyant end Saturday as thousands of tea party activists cheered on former Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, who closed the gathering with a full-throated denunciation of President Obama and urged conservatives to embrace their views more fiercely than ever.
But over the course of its three days, the event put on display how factions within the Republican Party are still struggling to find a path out of the wilderness, illuminating the gap between the GOP's resolutely conservative grass-roots and a party leadership eager for a more moderate approach. I bet they agree that Champ and his ilk need to go. What more unity do we need right now?
Former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson, a Republican and actor who appeared on a panel, said the gathering was especially indicative of growing tensions on immigration reform and foreign policy, and one of many meetings in the past year where the GOP's base has met to toast their favorites while remaining unsettled on an agenda. Start with what most folks do agree on. Set some priorities. Immigration is more crucial than defending marriage, isn't it?
"CPAC doesn't make any pretension of speaking for the party, but we're seeing these fluid debates and there is no clear consensus," he said. "The attitude here is: Let a thousand flowers bloom."
On immigration, CPAC organizers, led by pro-immigration-reform attorney Al Cardenas, held sessions encouraging continued reform efforts on Capitol Hill. But they also quarreled with critics of reform, irking grass-roots leaders who attended but were not invited to speak.
"You don't have to read the tea leaves," grumbled Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a group opposed to the Senate's bill. "Immigration skeptics have been pushed out."
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) was greeted with roaring approval Saturday when she warned conservatives not to engage with Democrats seeking a bipartisan immigration plan. "The last thing conservatives should do is help the president pass his number-one goal, and that's amnesty," she said. Immigration reform = Amnesty = permanent dem control But Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), in a Thursday speech, explained away the tumult seen at CPAC and within the Republican Party as part of the party's recovery process following the 2012 election, saying it's a sign that in spite of its difficulties, the GOP is searching for answers.
"The way the left tells it, the Republican Party is in this big, massive civil war," he said. "Look, I'm Irish. That's my idea of a family reunion."
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Demographics matter! Check out the amazing democratic success stories of Zimbabwe or South Africa. Closer to home, have a look at NYC, Chicago, Atlanta, or Los Angeles politics at the local level. Western Judeo-Christian civilization or Afri-tribal totalitarianism and "income equality".... you decide.
Unfortunately, I suspect the squirrel is already in the chowder, but my glass is generally half empty.
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Defending marriage is important. So is foreign policy and the budget. But none of those other issues will matter anymore if Republicans capitulate on amnesty because then the Republican Party will be kaput.
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Like Palin or no, she did it right. Attempting to appeal to the 'low info voter' with a Theodor Seuss Geisel riddle.
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Not dead yet, g(r)omgoru. But the pulse is very weak.
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Dead. County level politicians running for office in Texas are already running under the label "Tea Party". Not Republican, not Democrat, Tea Party on their campaign signs along the streets.
They've already said To Hell with the established parties.
[An Nahar] A 75-year-old New York woman found her fortune in a cookie.
Emma Duvoll won $2 million in a recent Powerball drawing after playing the numbers found in her fortune cookie. The retired Bronx resident bought the lottery ticket after dining at a Chinese restaurant in Greenwich Village.
The Daily News reports that the owner of Sammy's Noodle Shop & Grill joked that maybe the waiters should get 20 percent of her winnings.
Duvoll, a retired deli owner, picked up her prize on Thursday. She purchased the ticket for the Feb. 1 drawing at the Hannaford Pharmacy in upstate Pine Bush. She plans to invest her winnings and may splurge on a trip to Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... to see relatives.
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Of course, she could have picked 1,2,3,4,5,and 6. Mathematically speaking, that combination is just as likely.
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[An Nahar] Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced he and his deputy William Ruto will be taking a 20-percent pay cut and ministers' salaries will be reduced by 10 percent in a bid to rein in the country's soaring public wage bill.
The pay cuts will take place "with immediate effect," Kenyatta said in a speech on Friday, adding that the current spending levels were unsustainable.
The government will also limit foreign travel to only the most essential trips, according to Kenyatta. "Wastage in my government will be significantly reduced," he said.
"We are spending 400 billion shillings ($4.6 billion, 3.3 billion euros) every year paying salaries; it leaves us only from our own resources a figure of 200 billion shillings to transform Kenya," Kenyatta said.
"This is why we are saying that is the ratio which is not sustainable... We need to deal with this monster if we are to develop this nation."
The president urged the country's politicians to follow his lead and also lower their salaries, ranked among the highest in the world and long a source of discontent among ordinary Kenyans.
"We hope that other arms of government will follow suit and have their salaries reviewed. The MPs have heard and know what Kenyans want," Kenyatta said.
MPs last year reluctantly took a 40-percent pay cut, bringing their monthly pay checks down to around 532,000 shillings ($6,100, 4,400 euros).
The politicians had initially voted to give themselves a pay rise, sparking protests from activists, before agreeing to accept the salary reduction ordered by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission in return for other benefits.
Kenya's politicians also sparked controversy in 2012 by voting to give themselves a sendoff bonus of $110,000, a proposal that was vetoed by then-president Mwai Kibaki.
According to the Standard daily, Kenyatta, whose family is one of the continent's wealthiest, will see his monthly income reduced to about 989,600 shillings, while Ruto's will be lowered to 841,500 shillings.
The combined savings will leave the state some 5.5 million shillings a year better off, the Standard said.
The minimum wage in Nairobi for a manual laborer is around 8,500 shillings a month.
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Well, it's evident these public servants are none of Obama's relatives.....
[Dhaka Tribune] At least 60 people including six police personnel were maimed yesterday in Awami League intra party festivities in different upazilas of Gazipur, Chandpur, Munshiganj and Comilla districts over the upcoming third phase upazila polls.
Our Gazipur correspondent reports: At least 50 people including five police personnel were maimed in a clash between two AL chairman aspirants.
Witness said supporters of Gazipur Awami League backed candidate Iqbal Hossain stayed in front of the upazila AL office while the supporters of another candidate of AL-Abdul Jalil were campaigning in the area. When both groups were trying to take position in the upazila AL office, festivities started between them.
Amir Hossain, officer-in-charge of Shrepur cop shoppe, said supporters of Iqbal Hossain entered the town firing bullets and exploding cocktails. To bring the situation under control the police fired 41 bullets.
Member of municipal Chattra League Al Amin, son of Abul Hossain was critically injured during the clash.
All kinds shops were shutdown and the tense situation were prevailing in the area till filing the report.
Chandpur correspondent reports: At least 20 people including three police personnel and journalists were maimed in festivities between two Awami League chairman candidates in two upazilas over holding a showdown.
Munshiganj correspondent reports: At least 10 people, including officer-in-charge of Gazooria cop shoppe, were maimed in festivities between AL supported candidates centering campaigns in Munshiganj upazila polls.
The one and half hour long festivities took place between the supporters of AL backed candidate Amirul Islam and AL rebel candidate Refayet Ullah Khan.
OC Mamun-ur-Rashid was injured during the clash. Comilla correspondent reports: Several festivities took places among the candidates in Nangolkot, Burichnag and Brahmanpara upazilas of the district.
In Burichang upazila, four candidates are contesting for the chairman post. Those are- BNP backed Mizanur Rahman, Awami League backed Akhlak Haider, rebel candidate of Awami League Sazzad Hossain and Jatiya Party ...aka Jatiya Front; a political party established by Bangladictator Lieutenant General Hussain Muhammad Ershad in 1986 to lend a veneer of respectability to his rule. Since nobody was amused he was forced to resign by popular demand in 1990. The party remains in existence with about a dozen seats in Bangla's parliament... (Ershad) backed Shafiqur Rahman Arun.
Supporters of Akhlak Haider and Sazzad Hossain locked in a clash centering tearing down posters of the candidates. The supporters of Sazzad set fire to the election office of Akhlak in Fokirbaza area.
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Feed Sunnis, you timorous Tommies,
On halal Shiite Ali's salamis,
And whip up for Shiites
Halal Sunni delights
To enjoy with their middle school mommies!
[NewRepublic] A recent New York Times article about the protests in Venezuela reported that "demonstrators condemn a wide range of perennial problems, including... shortages of basic goods like sugar and toilet paper." This has become a meme in coverage of the unrest, as just about every story mentions these "shortages" as a reason for the student demonstrations. The word has become a kind of shorthand for the chaos and decay of the Venezuelan economy, driven by bolivarian socialism's uniquely self-destructive mix of economic policies. But how, you might wonder, does government policy cause a toilet-paper crisis?
Any journey down the rabbit hole of chavista economic management has to start with Venezuela's deliriously dysfunctional currency exchange control system. Unlike a normal country, where you can trade U.S. dollars with local currency at whatever price the market will bear, the Venezuelan bolivar is fixed at 6.30 per dollar, and sold discretionally, only to those the government deems worthy. This worthiness is established on the basis of an enormously cumbersome and corruption-prone administrative process. The real problem isn't the red tape, though. The real problem is that 6 bolivars and 30 cents is an insanely low price for a U.S. dollar. Venezuelans will gladly pay 85 bolivars for a dollar, even though doing so is technically a crime punishable by up to 6 years in prison.
Having two prices for the dollar makes figuring out what things cost in Caracas something of a philosophical imponderable. The Economist Intelligence Unit's 2014 Worldwide Cost of Living survey, released Tuesday, ranked Caracas the sixth-most expensive city in the world--tied with Geneva, Melbourne, and Tokyo. Of course, that's only if you figure it at the official exchange rate. At the more realistic black market rate, as EIU itself notes, Caracas is one the cheapest big cities on earth.
Government propaganda has long blamed the escalating shortages on an "economic war" launched by the CIA, alongside the economic elite, to topple a brave but embattled revolutionary people's government. But importers--many with close links with the regime--skirt currency controls not to destabilize the government, but because government policy makes skirting controls fantastically profitable. For this, President Nicolas Maduro's administration, like Hugo Chavez's before it, has no one to blame but itself: the way arbitrary price controls--and especially price controls on foreign currency--multiply perverse incentives, punish honest work, and channel outsized profits to people doing work of no value to society is one of the best understood phenomena in all of economics.
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Unlike a normal country, where you can trade U.S. dollars with local currency at whatever price the market will bear, the Venezuelan bolivar is fixed at 6.30 per dollar, and sold discretionally, only to those the government deems worthy. This worthiness is established on the basis of an enormously cumbersome and corruption-prone administrative process.
Not to be confused with the Fed's management of 'quantitative easing' which induces inflation on common goods, like food and gas, while raising the value of paper and mortgages held by money and lending institutions (caught with such over priced speculative holdings in 2008/9). The same institutions that members of the Fed and Treasury will return to work at/with upon their completion of their tour with government.
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A notable moment. After issuing fawning praise for a convicted terrorist and murderer, he steps from the podium at the Mandela memorial and shakes hands with the first available, Latin American communist.
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The Venezulan monetary split with an official exchange rate and a black-market one side by side leads where it normally leads, e.g. to anyone with an import license actually engaging in currency arbitrage, with imports a side market excuse. So, basically, real imports stop, while the importers play money games to keep their heads above water, because they have to deal with the real world outside the restricted zone. (You have to bear in mind, importers work both sides of the fence as part of the job; they have to be on both sides at once.)
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Rumor is that they're (the crew) gonna set up a Girl Scout cookie table outside the entrance to the Sebastapol naval facilities, and return a DVD of "Enemy At The Gates" checked out from the Odessa Blockbuster in '99.
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Not surprising from nations involved, but surprising that AP is reporting...
Add to that 3dc's most excellent idea for weaning us away from Russian rocket engines for the ISS and you've got the makings of a 'containment policy', shades of George Kennan...
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Yes, certainly would not harm the trade balance, and putting the EPA back in their box would be most helpful secondary. Oil, LNG, coal, they all need it over there.
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My idea of a good initial response to the Crimea thing. Russia gets great PR launching and returning everybody to the Space Station. I good first response would be to tell Sen Shelby to go to hell by voting to fully fund the 3 commercial space ships for test launches in 2015 and service by mid 2016. It would remove most funding and tons of prestige from the Russian space effort. If you put some $ up front SpaceX could do an unmanned test launch this year (run one of the commercial rocket stacks with a test article for the ship)
Also the Atlas rockets use motors from Russia. They are strongly backed by Shelby because of assembly in his state.
SpaceX rockets are all US made. Delta is mostly US.
Shelby insists all mil launches on mainly Atlas rockets. After Crimea some of you might not like me saying so but one could argue using Russian made engines to launch mil payload is traitorous.
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Easiest way to thumb our nose at the bear is fuel exports. Maybe even build a pipeline or something eh? nudge nudge, wink wink.
Never gonna happen. It would mean Obama throwing a goodly chunk of his base under the bus. No way, Jose. Although the resulting uproar would distract from the IRS scandal which seems to be ramping up.
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If the continuous dismal economy has not sparked Obama to approve the keystone pipeline adding the Ukraine situation will not change that decision. Obama is beholden to Buffet and Buffet has been making big money railroading oil around the country.
[An Nahar] Ukraine's former Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, has arrived in Berlin for medical treatment, a hospital official said Saturday.
The face of the pro-Western Orange Revolution in 2004, who suffers from herniated discs, started medical examinations on Saturday morning, said Karl-Max Einhaupl, director of the Charite University Hospital, Berlin. No decision on whether she will need an operation has yet been taken, Einhaupl added.
"Tomorrow (Sunday) and Monday, we will continue our diagnosis to see what can be done," he said during a televised presser.
He stressed that it was impossible to predict how long Tymoshenko will remain in care, stressing that the hernias caused her "severe pain".
"We have confidence that she will be able to walk freely again," he said.
Tymoshenko, 53, was freed from prison on February 23, having served three years of a seven year sentence for abuse of power, charges she always denied. Immediately after her release, she appeared in a wheelchair in Kiev's Independence Square to address protesters in Ukraine's capital.
Tymoshenko's relationship with the Berlin hospital goes back several years. A team of its doctors were given permission to examine her in April 2012 while she was imprisoned, although their recommendation to treat her in Germany was never accepted by Kiev.
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[The Peninsula] A Turkish court has freed five men accused of torturing and murdering three Christian missionaries in 2007, after the suspects' time in detention while on trial exceeded new legal limits, local media said Saturday.
The men walked free from their high-security prison in the eastern city of Malatya on Friday, according to Dogan news agency.
German missionary Tilmann Geske and Turkish converts Necati Aydin and Ugur Yuksel had their throats slit in April 2007 after being tied up and interrogated about missionary activities.
The three victims were members of the tiny Protestant community in the conservative city.
The trial of the five men accused of the attack is still going on seven years later.
Under a new law passed by the Turkish parliament last month, the detention limit for suspects on trial who have not yet been convicted was lowered to five years, paving the way for the five accused to be released on bail.
The murders at the time fuelled fear among Turkey's tiny Christian minorities and raised concern over rising nationalism and hostility towards non-Mohammedans in Turkey, a mainly Mohammedan country seeking European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... membership.
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[Pak Daily Times] Turkey's embattled prime minister has warned that his government could ban popular social media networks YouTube and Facebook after a number of online leaks added momentum to a spiralling corruption scandal.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi only they haven't dumped him yet... has tightened his government's grip over the Internet, generating criticism at home and abroad about rights in the EU-hopeful country.
"There are new steps we will take in that sphere after March 30... including a ban (on YouTube, Facebook)," Erdogan told private ATV television in an interview late Thursday.
Erdogan, Turkey's all-powerful leader since 2003, has been under mounting pressure after audio recordings were leaked last month in which he and his son allegedly discuss how to hide vast sums of money.
The Turkish premier dismissed them as a "vile" and an "immoral" montage by rivals ahead of key local elections on March 30. His office claimed the recordings were "completely untrue".
A series of other leaks on YouTube showed Erdogan allegedly meddling in trade deals and court cases.
Erdogan's government has also been shaken by a high-level corruption scandal that erupted in mid-December and ensnared the premier's key political and business allies.
Erdogan has waged a war against ally-turned-opponent Fethullah Gulen, a Moslemholy man based in the United States with strong influence over the country's police and the judiciary, of orchestrating the graft probe.
He has accused so-called "Gulenists" of acting like a "parallel state" and vowed to cleanse the state of the movement's supporters by purging police and passing laws to increase his grip over the Internet and the judiciary.
"Social media has turned into a domain for quite some time where the battle between the loyalists of the frustrated prime minister and the alleged 'parallel state' is in full swing," Asli Tunc, professor at Istanbul's Bilgi University, told AFP.
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1990 before the worldwide web...UseNet was where folks on the Internet chatted. A-holes in Turkey and Greece made most of UseNet worthless for everybody with a huge word fight between the two of them.
[Pak Daily Times] Authorities on Friday ordered a probe into the death of 41 children who reportedly died of pneumonia and malnutrition in a stretch of the Thar Desert.
Officials were alarmed by media reports from Mithi, one of the least developed and most remote districts in Sindh, suggesting that more than 100 people had died because of famine and malnutrition. "It is a very serious matter and we have deputed a senior member of the party and officials to probe into the deaths," Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah told news hounds. The minister also ordered the arrest of senior health officials for neglecting their duties, saying they had failed to move the children to hospitals in the bigger cities.
Shah said the cause of the deaths would be confirmed by the investigation but apparently pneumonia and malnutrition were among the reasons. The chief minister said the government records showed the death of 41 children but there were fears that the actual number may be higher. The Thar Desert begins around 300 kilometres from Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and runs up to the border with India, where it joins the Rajasthan Desert. Poor health and communication infrastructure keeps the district disconnected from mainstream population.
The chief minister admitted the authorities had not done all they could to look after the needs of the people. "I admit that the distribution of wheat was not appropriate," Shah said. In 2000, the desert suffered a famine that killed 90 percent of the livestock, the economic mainstay of the area.
Chief Minister Shah announced Rs 0.2 million each for the families of the children who died in Tharparkar, and has increased the aid allocation from Rs 9.3 million to Rs 18.60 million. Addressing a presser in Karachi he said the cause of the deaths would be confirmed after an investigation but apparently pneumonia and malnutrition were among the reasons. "Sindh government has ordered a probe into the death of 41 children who reportedly died of pneumonia and malnutrition in Thar," he added. He said director health as well as the director and the deputy director livestock have been suspended.
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[Pak Daily Times] Chief Justice of Pakistain, Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jaillani Saturday said constitutionally, provision of inexpensive and expeditious justice was foremost responsibility of state but judiciary was also equally responsible to deliver speedy justice which is essential for rule of law in the society.
Justice Tassaduq Jaillani, also Chairman NJPMC said this while chairing a meeting of National Judicial (Policy Making) Committee held in the Supreme Court Branch Registry, Lahore.
He said that the National Judicial (Policy Making) Committee provided a permanent forum for interaction and coordination among the Chief Justices of the Superior Judiciary to harmonise judicial policy within the court system for improving the capacity and performance of the justice system in the country.
In line with its objective, the Committee embarked on the path of reforming the administration of justice and took important decisions including formulation of National Judicial Policy.
The results of these initiatives are encouraging and have improved the capacity and performance of the justice sector institutions.
Disposal of all old cases by the District Judiciary and ever increasing rate of fresh institution, speak about the success of these initiatives.
The committee reviewed the performance of district judiciary with reference to old cases and noted that the district judiciary has decided good number of cases.
The committee also reviewed the implementation status of its recommendations regarding allocation of additional funds to strengthen district judiciary in terms of human resource and infrastructure.
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An Iranian cleric claims that the Albert Einstein, the great 20th century scientist who developed the Theory of Relativity, was a Shiitie Muslim, Israel Radio reported on Saturday.
The report cites a video by Ayatolla Mahadavi Kani, described as the head of the Assembly of Experts in the Islamic Republic of Iran, who says that there are documents proving the Jewish scientist embraced Shiite Islam and was an avid follower of Ja'far Al-Sadiq, an eighth-century Shi'i imam.
In the video, Kani quotes Einstein as saying that when he heard about the ascension of the prophet Mohammed, "a process which was faster than the speed of light," he realized "this is the very same relativity movement that Einstein had understood."
The ayatollah adds: "Einstein said, 'when I heard about the narratives of the prophet Mohamad and that of the Ahle-Beit [prophet's household] I realized they had understood these things way before us.'"
Reports of Einstein's affinity to Islam circulated in 2012 as well, when the grandson of the late Ayatollah Hossein Borujerdi claimed the scientist was "corresponding with the cleric and had admitted Shia Islam was the most scientific and just religion in the world."
[The Peninsula] Six suspected drug pushers were rubbed out during a firefight with Thai security forces who seized illegal amphetamines at the scene, police said Saturday.
The clash occurred late Friday evening in a mountainous border area in the Mae Sai district of northernmost Chiang Rai province part of the Golden Triangle region.
"Six bodies were found at clash site along with seven bags of methamphetamines," Colonel Nattawut Yuwan, commander of the Mae Sai police, told AFP by telephone.
"We suspect they were hilltribe (Muser) people," he said, adding the suspects had been travelling by foot and the clash happened quite close to the border with Myanmar.
There were no reports of any casualties among security forces.
Clashes between police and narcos are fairly common in Thailand's remote border regions.
Thailand has seen a marked increase in seizures of methamphetamine, which is relatively cheap and easy to make, often smuggled from neighbouring Myanmar where armed rebels use profits from narcotics to fund their operations.
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[An Nahar] Security forces arrested on Saturday a man accused of insulting a statue of Virgin Mary last month. It's an Islamic thing. Not being idolators like they are, Christians don't get fired up over nonsense like this.
"Security forces in the Dahieh judicial department (in Beirut's southern suburbs) arrested A.I. for insulting a statue of Virgin Mary and posting a picture of the wrongful conduct on his page on a social media site," LBCI television said.
President Michel Suleiman called in February for "appropriate measures" to be taken against a user who had posted a Facebook cover photo of himself kissing the statue of Virgin Mary.
A Baabda palace statement said Suleiman called for certain "procedures and appropriate measures" against the wrongdoer but did not mention whether the president was inviting for judicial action.
The arrested man, Ali Itawi, had written in one of his posts that virgin Mary "was no longer a virgin" after the kiss. ... but A.I. was still stoopid.
He first posted the photo in 2011 but he put it back as a cover photo a few months ago, causing a stir on social networking sites.
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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.
An Ohio woman was charged yesterday with disorderly conduct for going into a Walmart and distributing sexually explicit material accusing a store exployee of having an affair with her husband.
The annual Conservative Political Action Conference came to a raucous and buoyant end Saturday as thousands of tea party activists cheered on former Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, who closed the gathering with a full-throated denunciation of President Obama and urged conservatives to embrace their views more fiercely than ever.
But Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), in a Thursday speech, explained away the tumult seen at CPAC and within the Republican Party as part of the party's recovery process following the 2012 election, saying it's a sign that in spite of its difficulties, the GOP is searching for answers.
Like Palin or no, she did it right. Attempting to appeal to the 'low info voter' with a 
A notable moment. After issuing fawning praise for a convicted terrorist and murderer, he steps from the podium at the Mandela memorial and shakes hands with the first available, Latin American communist. 
