A gunman is in custody after four people were shot on the campus of a Christian university in Seattle on Thursday afternoon, police said.
Two people suffered life-threatening wounds.
The Seattle Pacific University campus was locked down and students and staff were evacuated from Otto Miller Hall after the shooting, which happened about 3:30 p.m. PT near 3rd Ave. West and West Nickerson Street. Two victims were shot in the hall, Seattle police reported.
A man and a woman were in critical condition at Harborview Medical Center, police said. Another man and woman were in stable condition with minor injuries.
The Seattle Times reported seven people were shot, but that has not been confirmed by police. The gunman reportedly used either a rifle or shotgun.
Police initially reported that a second armed suspect was being sought but later said only one gunman was involved.
Seattle Pacific is Christian university with an enrollment of 4,000. Founded 125 years ago by Methodists, the school is located in the city's Queen Anne Hill neighborhood, about 10 minutes from downtown.
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Jon Meis, a Sr. Engineering student working as a student monitor, pepper sprayed and tackled the shooter while he was reloading. The best defense is a good offense, if someone has the courage to do it. Marines should recruit this young man.
[Ynet] In honor of 70th anniversary for D-Day, Getty Images created mesmerizing then-and-now pictures of historic beach, layering old pictures of the battlefield on top of their tranquil location today.
Click on the headline to see the photos at the link.
Two Armenian soldiers were reportedly killed by an Azerbaijani sniper Thursday along the two countries' border.
Armenian Defense Ministry spokesman Artsur Hovannisian said the two were gunned down at the country's southwestern border. Azerbaijan made no comment about the reported incident.
Several officers and soldiers from both sides have been killed in shootings in the last several weeks along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, as well as near the administrative boundary of Azerbaijan's breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
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Sounds like the vault at the ECB has become a 'no parking zone'. (Give 'em money, they just blow it.)
Move along, nothing to see here...
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When the economy is so bad that parking money at the Central Bank is preferred, you might just take that as the invisible hand of commerce telling you that your economic system is seriously screwed up.
Guess its better to tax people trying to protect their money than to tell the people who extort the system via political power to fix the system to encourage that money to be invested. Cause fixing would involve ripping and shredding laws and programs that appeal to those who never created the resources but who want them. see - thou shall not covet, thou shall not steal.
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This is about banks storing money at the central bank.
Take note that some of the banks bailed out in the great 2008-9 looting of America (cause all that bad paper was not backed by the 'good faith' of the government, but was made so by the pols at the behest of their campaign contributors), involved many Euro banks who had invested in the American speculative market (re:housing bubble) because they couldn't get proper returns at home (see - socialism). Banks got burned. Now they've reverted to the old program of avoiding risk. Part of risk is investing. If the market is weak, if it is subject to the flight of fancy of pols, if it is non-predictable, the money will seek shelter. The central bank was been that port in the storm. Now the pols, through the central bank, are pushing banks to use that money. The same pols that make the regulations and taxes that diminish any return on investment. So, the point where line x crosses line y is being determined on where the loses are going to be less, those monies in the market or those monies effectively taxed stored in the central bank. The stupidity is making loses the determining factor rather than gains.
Long article.
The Russian natural gas company Gazprom, which supplies much of Europe's gas imports, is at the center of a secretive cabal of mostly state-owned natural gas companies that has been operating for two decades under the aegis of the United Nations, according to a first-ever audit of the operation obtained by Fox News.
Even though it is a U.N. entity, the group, known simply as the Gas Centre, runs on a budget funded by its corporate members. Its supervisory Executive Board has never been approved by the U.N. agency of which it is nominally a part, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, or UNECE. The group's priorities, and its detailed budget, likewise manage to stay below the U.N.'s supervisory radar. What is going on here? Tax evasion or something more?
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Appears to be a skimming operation. Fund the board or bad things happen is usually the charter of such entities. In the US it is called the mafia or in most parts of the country the government.
[VOA] Vietnam says Chinese ships protecting a controversial oil rig in the South China Sea continue to attack Vietnamese ships on a daily basis. The head of Vietnam's Fisheries Surveillance Department, Nguyen Ngoc Oai, told VOA's Vietnamese service Wednesday that Chinese ships are still targeting Vietnamese ships for ramming and attacks with water cannon.
"Chinese ships rammed a vessel of Vietnam Fisheries Surveillance forces [Wednesday], breaking the entire balcony and sprayed water cannons damaging all the cabin glasses, communications equipment, and maritime devices on the ship," he said.
He said no one was injured in the attack. He added that the Chinese vessels are also increasing the range of their patrols around the oil rig to cover a larger area of water.
"Previously, Chinese vessels protecting the oil rig operated within five-six nautical miles [9-11 kilometers] around the platform, but they have now expanded their ranges of operation to eight nautical miles" [or 15 kilometers]," he said.
Vietnamese and Chinese boats have repeatedly clashed since May 1 when China moved the oil rig to an area within what Hanoi considers its exclusive economic zone. Beijing says Vietnamese ships have harassed Chinese vessels in waters that China claims are its territory. Ones supposes that Vietnam could declare the area around the oil rig a mine testing area and then use subs and aircraft to populate the "test" area. Just saying ....
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See also YAHOO NEWS > CHINA'S BUDDING OCEAN EMPIRE.
Again, IRAN has expanded to the shores of the Eastern Med, from Lebanon to Iraq, + borders of Pakistan, while RUSSIA has the Crimea back + desires rapprochement wid former Soviet satellite states in Eastern Europe.
CHINA, on its its part, remains limited to its coasts + land borders, + has yet to expand its sphere of influence.
KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED, BECAUSE ITS NOT CLEAR THE OWG GLOBALISTS CAN CONTROL THE SITUATION = MAJOR GEOPOL CHANGES WHICH THEY DID, + ARE STILL DOING MUCH, TO IMPLEMENT.
* JAPAN TIMES > CHINA BUILDING UP [reclaiming] MORE LAND IN SPRATLY REEFS, MANILA SAYS.
OTOH what is Manila going to do about its situation other than ... ...
* RELATED BIGNEWSNETWORK > [GMA News] PHILIPPINES WON'T ENGAGE CHINA, WILL JUST WATCH: PALACE.
* SAME > [China FM Spox Hong Lei] CHINA TO RESPOND TO ANY PROVOCATION.
Yuuuuppp.
* TOPIX > [VOA News] VIETNAM URGES MORE "PRACTICAL US ACTIONS" IN SOUTH CHINA SEA.
IIUC, IOW Hanoi is urging the Bammer = USA to
"D *** NG IT, AMERIKA, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT'!
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [FT.com] CHINA UNDER-REPORTING DEFENSE BUDGET BY 20%, says the USA.
Budget spending or allocations more closer to US$145.0Bilyuhn, NOT US$119.5Bilyuhn.
China is also effect expanding its MilPol reach, + its has successfully developed more advanced indigenous drones.
* TOPIX > [SCMP] JAPAN CAN CHOOSE TO BE EITHER ALLY OR THREAT:, SAYS CHINA'S EX-FOREIGN MINISTER.
As said before, China desires offshore or overseas Strategic HQS = nka CENTCOMS. Pragmatically, despite its rhetoric to the contrary, JAPAN + even SOKOR, PHIL, + VIETNAM, ETAL. will always be deemed a possible threat(s) to China as long as it doesn't control TAIWAN + as long as the PLA has no major Milbases outside of the mostly pro-US andor Anti-China "First Island Chain".
It's just celebratory gun s3x, naught really to do with the War on Terror at all.
[AnNahar] A number of people were jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... on Wednesday in the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... for firing gunshots and grenades to celebrate the re-election of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... , announced the army in a statement on Thursday.
It said that a total of 23 suspects were arrested.
It identified one of the suspects as Mahmoud al-Masri, who fired a rocket-propelled grenade towards the Jabal Mohsen neighborhood.
The remaining 22 people, including a Syrian, were detained for firing celebratory gunshots in the Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen neighborhoods.
They were also charged with driving cycle of violences without proper licenses and resisting arrest.
Supporters of Assad opened fire in the air in the Jabal Mohsen neighborhood following news of his re-election on Wednesday.
The army carried out raids in the area to arrest the suspects.
LBCI television reported on Wednesday that tensions were high on Tripoli's Syria Street following the celebrations.
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Thats a job that I think is going to be very difficult. And its going to take some specific expertise. I dont think I have that expertise, and so I dont think Im the best person for it,
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What we're looking for here is someone with a 'career death-wish', as the fix requires more money than they'll ever get, where solving things only delays the bad news (everybody dies eventually, right?), and where our social elite don't care anyway. Sounds like a job for Hillary.
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There it is again - "right person"
Remember, a lot of these former GOs had the authority to relieve subordinates thus trashing careers which would last till the next 'second pass over' for promotion at the latest (roughly four years). No such ability exists in civil 'servant' world. Maybe if people had the 'right' tools, the issue of finding the 'right' person wouldn't be so hard.
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It doesn't dawn on the bureaucrats to use the False Claim Act to recover at least the bonuses paid to these yahoos who pushed false numbers on their reporting. I guess that's filed under 'professional courtesy'.
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.
He said no one was injured in the attack. He added that the Chinese vessels are also increasing the range of their patrols around the oil rig to cover a larger area of water.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
