[DAWN] Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri, a veteran politician and head of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Marri clan, died after a protracted illness on Tuesday night. He was 86.
A relative of the Marri family told Dawn that the Baloch leader had been admitted to a private hospital last week after his condition deteriorated.
Although he had been suffering from back pain for several years which crippled his routine movement, a neurological problem caused him to be admitted to the hospital, said the relative.
Nawab Marri had gone into coma a day earlier and never recovered.
Family sources said the date and time of his funeral and whether to bury him in his ancestral town of Kohlu or in Quetta would be decided later.
"His sons and many relatives are abroad and we are in contact with them to take a decision," they added.
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[MEMBERS.JACKSONVILLE] As the case that resulted in the arrest of a Louisiana mother of two was transferred from one section to another at the Clay County Sheriff's Office, details of the actual suspect were replaced with information about the woman who ended up being wrongfully incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! twice, according to investigative notes from the Public Defender's Office.
Ashley Nicole Chiasson, 28, spent a total of five weeks in Clay County jail after she was arrested for grand theft in January and again four months later for writing bad checks.
She was the wrong Ashley Chiasson on both occasions.
Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler issued a statement Tuesday apologizing to Chiasson and saying short cuts were taken by his officers in both wrongful arrests. Beseler's spokeswoman said he would not be commenting further while his office investigates the matter.
But according the 4th Judicial Circuit's Public Defender's Office's investigative notes on the Chiasson case, when the original grand theft report was written in August, it contained the identification details for an Ashley Odessa Chiasson. That Ashley Chiasson is more than two years older and about five inches taller than the woman the sheriff's office extradited and tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! . The Ashley Chiasson the office actually was seeking also spent time in Louisiana, according to the notes.
After the original theft report was written, it was set to be transferred to the sheriff office's "general investigations" section.
"At some point between the original report by Deputy (G.B.) Ward and the investigation by Detective (M.J.) Mertz, the date of birth, physical description and Louisiana ID card for Ashley O. was deleted and the date of birth, physical description and Florida ID # for Ashley N. was added to the investigation," the notes state.
That incorrect information was submitted for an arrest warrant in October and in January Ashley N. Chiasson was booked into Clay County's jail.
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[Ynet] Afghans are growing more opium poppies than ever before and it's threatening to wipe out gains made to help the impoverished country improve health, education and governance, the US watchdog for spending in Afghanistan said Tuesday.
The UN Office of Drugs and Crime said Afghanistan produced nearly $3 billion in opium plus its heroin and morphine derivatives last year -- up over the $2 billion produced the year before. From 2002 through March of this year, the US had provided more than $7 billion for counter-narcotics efforts and agriculture stabilization programs.
So Afghanistan had a national income of at least $10 billion...
[AnNahar] An Algerian man in his fifties has died of the MERS virus, the first such fatality in the country, the health ministry announced Tuesday.
The 59-year-old victim was among the first two cases of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome virus to be discovered in Algeria late last month.
Both men had just returned from a pilgrimage to Moslem holy sites in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , where most cases and deaths from the disease have been reported.
The unnamed man died after 11 days in hospital in the town of Tlemcen, 600 kilometres west of Algiers, following a deterioration of his vital functions overnight Monday.
Moslem pilgrims from around the world are pouring into the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, undeterred by the spread of the deadly virus.
The condition of the second confirmed MERS case, a 66-year-old man hospitalised in Kolea near Algiers, is improving, the health ministry said.
Other countries, including Egypt, Jordan, Leb, Iran, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates and the United States, have also recorded cases, mostly in people who had been to Saudi Arabia.
The MERS virus is considered a deadlier but less transmissible cousin of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus that appeared in Asia in 2003 and killed hundreds of people, mostly in China.
Like SARS, it appears to cause a lung infection, with patients suffering coughing, breathing difficulties and a temperature. But MERS differs in that it also causes rapid kidney failure.
MERS has killed 284 people in Saudi Arabia since it first emerged in 2012, and hundreds more have been infected.
Moslem pilgrims from around the world are pouring into the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, undeterred by the spread of the deadly virus.
Research has suggested that the virus has been quite common in camels for at least the past 20 years.
Last week, researchers said they had found the first direct evidence that MERS jumps directly from camels to humans.
[AnNahar] A gunbattle erupted Wednesday between soldiers from 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 aka 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... and Rwandan forces on their volatile border, local Congolese officials said, adding to tensions between the rival nations.
The fighting began after Rwandan troops crossed the border into the restive province of North Kivu and kidnapped a Congolese soldier, provincial army front man Lieutenant-Colonel told AFP.
"Our troops reacted forcefully and the (Rwandans) were sent back," he said, adding that the situation was now calm but tense.
He did not say if there had been any casualties or give details about the fate of the soldier.
Kigali and Kinshasa have long been at odds, with Rwanda accused by the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... of backing rebels in the strife-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Rwanda fought against the central government in Kinshasa in Congo's two wars in 1996-97 and 1998-2003 and has been involved in several attempts to destabilize the country, backing uprisings by Tutsi-dominated militias.
However since the defeat in November of a Kigali-backed rebellion led by the M23 group, the border has remained relatively calm.
Local officials said Wednesday's fighting erupted before dawn in Kanyesheza, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) northeast of the lovely provincial capital Goma, and lasted over four hours.
"I heard shooting... people panicked," said one local resident who did not want to be named.
But the governor of North Kivu, Julien Paluku, sought to play down the incident.
"There was shooting between elements from the Rwandan army and the FARDC (the Congolese army) in Kanyesheza," he told AFP.
"They were minor incidents, not fighting between two armies," he said, accusing the Rwandan army of sparking the fighting.
There has been no comment as yet from the Rwandan side.
[AnNahar] Sierra Leone doubled its corpse count from the highly contagious Ebola virus on Monday, as international aid organizations struggled to contain the deadly epidemic gripping west Africa.
"There are now 109 suspected cases of which 42 are confirmed," said a statement from the health ministry, adding that six more people had been killed by the tropical pathogen since a corpse count of six was announced a week ago.
Two of the new deaths were health workers in Kailahun, an eastern district near the border with Guinea, the epicentre of the west African outbreak which has killed more than 200 people since the beginning of January.
Sierra Leonean media reported that panicked health workers were abandoning their posts in the area, although Agence La Belle France Presse was not immediately able to confirm the information.
The impoverished west African nation confirmed its first deaths from Ebola, one of the deadliest viruses known to man, two weeks ago.
The tropical bug can fell its victims within days, causing severe fever, muscle pain, weakness, vomiting and diarrhoea -- and in some cases shutting down organs and causing unstoppable bleeding.
No medicine or vaccine exists for Ebola, which is named after a small river in 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 aka 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... The UN's health agency said on Wednesday last week it had so far registered 328 confirmed or suspected cases of Ebola in Guinea, including 208 deaths, with 21 deaths registered between May 29 and June 1 alone.
The virus appears to have resurfaced in neighbouring Liberia, which earlier this year had seen 12 suspected and confirmed cases of Ebola, including nine deaths, but had not seen any new cases for nearly two months.
A person believed to have been infected in Kailahun came across the border and died in Foya, WHO said, pointing out that the dead body was taken back into Sierra Leone to be buried.
[AnNahar] The Kuwaiti government has decided in principle to end subsidies on diesel fuel but will deal with any negative impacts on consumers before implementing the decision, the cabinet said.
Last month, the OPEC member's government warned that spending outpaced revenues and this could lead to a budget deficit in 2017/2018 after years of surpluses.
"The council of ministers has decided in principle to stop subsidies on diesel," a statement said late Monday.
But the cabinet is waiting for a study by the higher planning council on ways to deal with possible negative effects on consumers.
Oil Minister Ali al-Omair told parliament three weeks ago that ending subsidies on diesel would save around $1 billion (735 million euros) a year out of total subsidies of around $18 billion.
Diesel is currently sold at around $0.20 a litre.
The step is one of several recommendations by a government committee formed last October to review subsidies on all services and commodities after costs have skyrocketed.
Finance Minister Anas al-Saleh told parliament the average annual growth in public spending was 20.4 percent during the past decade against a 16.2 percent for revenues.
The ministry has urged major cuts in subsidies, saying it was impossible for the state to sustain growth in wages and continue them.
Between 2005 and 2013 subsidies rose more than fourfold, from $4.1 billion to $18 billion, an annual growth rate of 23 percent, the ministry said.
Oil income rose from $45.9 billion in 2005 to $106 billion last year.
The minister has said that, if oil prices remain at around $100 a barrel, Kuwait will post an estimated budget deficit of 2.3 billion in the 2017/2018 fiscal year.
Last month, the International Monetary Fund warned Kuwait to contain a rapid rise in public wages and subsidies to safeguard the economy against oil price shocks.
The Gulf state is also revising subsidies on electricity, water and petrol, currently sold at well below cost.
Kuwait has boasted a budget surplus in each of the past 14 fiscal years, helping to increase its sovereign wealth fund to over $500 billion, local media said.
If they're visibly cutting expenses in ways the citizenry won't enjoy, perhaps they also will reduce the public funding of jihad, given ISIS (or ISIL, I have trouble keeping up with these name changes) is engaged in a program of religious conquest worthy of Mohammed himself.
[AnNahar] The Bangladesh coastguard on Wednesday rescued a stricken boat in the Bay of Bengal packed with 300 nationals who were trying to flee to Malaysia, an official said.
At least four bodies were on board the Malaysia-bound boat, which was being towed to a Bangladeshi island in rough seas, the official and one of the passengers told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Bangladeshi coastguard commander Shahidul Islam told AFP that the remaining 300 passengers were safe.
"They told us that there are four dead bodies in the ship. We haven't searched the ship yet. We're bringing it to the Saint Martin's Island," he said.
Islam could not confirm how the four died, but one of the passengers told AFP from aboard the boat that they were fired on as they tried to leave Bangladesh's southern coast near neighboring Myanmar.
Bangladesh and Mynanmar share a land border and tensions are high. Last month a Bangladeshi border guard was killed following festivities with Myanmar border police.
"The Myanmar people fired at us," passenger Ziaur Rahman said by phone without saying if the military was behind the shootings.
"They then fired at us from another ship and five to six people have died. The bodies are in the lower deck," he said.
Another Bangladesh coastguard commander, Harun-or-Rashid, told AFP that the ship's engine broke down after a fight erupted between passengers and members of the crew from Myanmar.
Rahman, from Bangladesh's southernmost town of Teknaf, said he paid a human trafficker about $2,000 for the boat journey to Malaysia and that others paid more.
Thousands of poor Bangladeshi and ethnic Rohingya refugees from Myanmar try to migrate to Malaysia every year via a perilous and sometimes fatal 3,200-kilometer (2,000-mile) journey.
Bangladesh's coastguard and border forces have launched crackdowns on the economic migrants, confiscating their ships and arresting a number of human traffickers.
[AnNahar] Japan and Australia said Wednesday they have stepped up their defense ties and moved toward a possible future submarine deal, as a rising China stirs tension in the Asia-Pacific region.
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera met with in Tokyo with Julie Bishop and David Johnston, their respective opposite numbers, for the fifth round of so-called "2+2" talks.
The Japanese said the two sides reached a broad agreement on a legal framework to allow the two nations to conduct joint research and trade in defense equipment.
"We reached a conclusion on negotiations for an agreement on cooperation in the field of defense equipment and technology," Onodera said in a joint presser.
He said details of the pact still needed to be ironed out.
But Bishop stressed that Japan and Australia are "natural partners" who are developing their "strong relationship" into a "special relationship."
Johnston said Australia was particularly interested in Japanese diesel-electric submarines, although he added that Canberra has also approached other partner nations to study their submarine technologies.
Following an Australian request, Johnston will be given an extensive look at Japanese submarines during his stay.
Australia needs to replace its fleet of stealth subs over the coming years at a reported cost of up to U.S.$37 billion.
The potential deal between the two nations could boost Japan's defense industry, while also further cementing relations both economically and militarily.
Onodera also said the two nations are looking to boost the interoperability of their troops through more joint drills, humanitarian assistance programs, disaster relief and projects to ensure maritime security.
The ministers agreed on joint basic research for marine hydrodynamics to be applied for construction of future military vessels and submarines.
The four ministers followed up on a free trade pact and a security deal reached in April between Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, who will visit Australia next month, Bishop said.
Abe has argued that Japan must play a bigger role on the global stage and has pushed to loosen restrictions on when its well-equipped armed forces can act.
He has also relaxed a self-imposed ban on weapons exports, paving the way for the possible deal with Australia.
The ministers voiced their rejection of "the use of force or coercion to unilaterally alter the status quo in the East China Sea and the South China Sea" in an apparent reference to China's increasingly aggressive territorial claims.
Beijing has intensified its claims over the South China Sea, and has butted heads with Hanoi and Manila.
Japan's ties with China have remained sour, due mainly to a territorial dispute in the East China Sea.
Worries about China have encouraged a relationship-building drive across Asia, analysts say, with Australia and Japan a notable pairing.
[AnNahar] Japan accused China of flying fighter jets "dangerously" close to two of its military planes over the East China Sea Wednesday, as bilateral tensions simmer over the countries' territorial dispute.
Two Chinese SU-27 jets flew as close as 30 meters (100 feet) away from the Japanese defense aircraft at about 11am local time (0200 GMT), the defense ministry in Tokyo said.
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera told news hounds his ministry had lodged a diplomatic complaint with China over the incident.
It was the second time in less than three weeks that Tokyo accused Beijing of "dangerous" flights by Chinese fighter jets against Japanese military planes.
It was the second time in less than three weeks that Tokyo accused Beijing of "dangerous" flights by Chinese fighter jets against Japanese military planes.
The alleged incident occurred over the open seas near the disputed waters where China's stated air defence identification zone overlaps with that of Japan.
The area is about 200-300 kilometers (125-190 miles) north of the Japanese-controlled Senkaku islands, which China also claims and calls the Diaoyus.
Defense Minister Onodera called the Chinese aircraft's maneuvers "extremely dangerous flights that could have led to an accident."
"We cannot allow this to happen," he said, urging Beijing to preventing a recurrence by by establishing a hotline between their defense officials.
In an apparent tit-for-tat move, the Chinese defense ministry said on May 29 that two Japanese fighter planes came within 10 meters of a Chinese transport aircraft over the East China Sea in late November last year.
The territorial dispute flared in September 2012 when Tokyo nationalized some of the islands.
Chinese state-owned ships and aircraft, including coastguard vessels, have since approached the island group, sometimes venturing into its territorial waters and airspace, chased by Japanese coastguard patrols and prompting Tokyo to scramble fighter jets.
Fears of a military clash in the area have been heightened after China unilaterally declared last November the establishment of its air defense identification zone above the East China Sea, which overlaps a similar Japanese zone.
[AnNahar] Demand for natural gas is set to nearly double within five years in China but the emerging market giant will meet half that with domestic supplies, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.
Neatly and naturally cutting the feet out from under the climate change lobby, as China is currently the world's largest producer of carbon dioxide, as well as a major producer of particulate pollution, due to their heavy dependence on high sulfur coal for household heat and power plants.
In its latest medium-term forecasts for the natural gas sector, the IEA trimmed its five-year outlook for consumption by 0.2 points to an annual increase of 2.2 percent as European countries step up use of renewable energy.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... it said demand for cleaner-burning natural gas was likely to grow in China as air quality concerns prompted authorities to take measures to reduce pollution
"Driven by booming demand, the 'Golden Age' of natural gas that is now firmly established in North America will expand to China over the next five years," said the IEA.
"The power, industrial and transport sectors will drive overall Chinese gas demand to 315 billion cubic meters in 2019, an increase of 90 percent over the forecast period."
The energy analysis arm of the OECD group of advanced countries said China was also set to benefit from a boom in gas production.
"While China will remain a significant importer, half of its new gas demand will be met by domestic resources, most of them unconventional: Chinese production is set to grow by 65 percent, from 117 bcm (billion cubic metres) in 2013 to 193 bcm in 2019," said the IEA.
The IEA was somewhat cautious about the outlook overall for natural gas given efforts to switch to renewables, high prices for liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies, and competition from other fuels such as coal.
"High LNG prices are threatening to crimp demand as many countries are increasingly unwilling, or unable, to afford these supplies --- and that could open the door to coal," IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven said in a statement.
That is of major concern as increased Asian demand for gas is expected to be met mostly by LNG supplies, which the IEA forecasts to increase by 450 percent to reach 450 bcm in 2019.
The IEA expects half of all new LNG exports will come from Australia and North America to account for 8 percent of global LNG trade by 2019.
In Nevada's Democrat primary "None of These Candidates" showed up strongly both for Governor and Lt. Governor. But the non choice actually won top spot for the Democrat choice for governor!
Robert Goodman was trying to gain the nomination of the Democrat Party to run against incumbent Republican Governor Brian Sandoval. Sadly for Bobbie, he didn't quite make the cut as "None of These Candidates" beat him 29.96 percent to Bobbie's 24.7 percent. ...heh...
[DAWN] Prime Minister 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... on Wednesday termed the approval for a loan of US$700 million for Pakistain by the World Bank as a 'historical achievement.'
He was speaking with Finance Minister Ishaq Dar who called on him in his chamber at the National Assembly and apprised him on the World Bank's approval for financing the 4500 MW Dasu Hydro power project.
The prime minister said that about $600 million will be utilised for Dasu Hydro Power Project and $100 million for the Sindh Irrigation project.
Prime Minister Sharif congratulated Ishaq Dar and his team for this remarkable achievement and said "it shows the confidence of multilateral donors and foreign countries in the economy of Pakistain."
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[DAWN] HARIPUR: A police constable has allegedly raped an 18-year-old girl in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... 's Haripur area, DawnNews reported on Wednesday.
While talking to DawnNews, the girl alleged that the police constable was in contact with her for two weeks and promised to marry her.
"He picked me up on his cycle of violence and raped me in a deserted area nearby," said the girl.
After allegedly raping the girl, the police constable threw her down from a hill-top.
According to the police, the girl was shifted to a hospital for medical treatment and her condition was said to be critical.
An FIR has been registered against the police constable who is said to be a resident of Swabi, which states that the victim is between 17 and 18 years old.
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Just keeping a weather eye on events in Thailand after the army stepped in to restore order.
[AnNahar] Thailand's junta threatened Wednesday to arrest and deport all illegal foreign workers, as border officials reported an exodus of Cambodian migrants following last month's military takeover.
Laborers from neighboring Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar have played a key role in Thai industries such as seafood, agriculture and construction, but they often lack proper work permits.
From now on any illegal migrant workers found in Thailand "will be tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! and deported", Thai army spokeswoman Sirichan Ngathong said.
"We see illegal workers as a threat because there were a lot of them and no clear measures to handle them, which could lead to social problems," she said.
Since the May 22 coup, at least 10,000 Cambodian workers have crossed back, according to Neth Serey, an official at the Cambodian consulate in the Thai border province of Sa Kaeo.
Kind of like the exodus of illegal Muslim immigrants from America when the requirement to register was announced after 9/11. How much of our jihadi problem then solved itself?
Activists said the migrants were transported in trucks and dumped at the border.
"They feel scared. Some were crying," said Soum Chankea, a coordinator for Cambodian rights group ADHOC, who met with some of them.
Many of the migrants, including women and kiddies, are effectively stranded at the frontier with no money to pay for their journey home, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
I believe it used to be called travelling by shank's mare, and many have had to do it over the centuries.
There are usually 100 migrants coming through the main Aranyaprathet-Poipet border checkpoint each day, said the IOM acting chief of mission in Cambodia, Leul Mekonnen.
"But we are already seeing more than 1,000 a day and we do not know what the coming days hold."
Construction worker Chea Loeun, who returned from Thailand on Wednesday, said Cambodians feared being arrested by the Thai army.
"They said Cambodian migrants joined protests there," the 34-year-old told Agence La Belle France Presse by telephone from Poipet. "Cambodia workers dare not stay in Thailand anymore."
Thailand is usually home to more than two million migrant workers, according to activists.
In the past the authorities turned a blind eye to the presence of illegal laborers because they were needed when the economy was booming.
Now, however, Thailand is on the verge of recession after the economy contracted 2.1 percent quarter-on-quarter in the first three months of 2014.
Some workers from Myanmar have also returned home since the coup, said Chalee Loysoong, president of the Thai Labor Solidarity Committee, which helps foreign laborers in the kingdom.
"The illegal ones are probably scared so they went back by themselves," he said.
After seizing power, the Thai junta banned public protests, summoned hundreds of critics for questioning and imposed a night-time curfew.
The army has floating the idea of creating special economic zones in border areas to better manage the movements of migrant workers, although so far details of the plan remain vague.
The coup followed years of political divisions between a military-backed royalist establishment and the family of runaway former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra -- a close ally of Cambodian premier Hun Sen who once called him an "eternal friend".
That sounds terribly meaningful, though I've no idea about what.
DENVER - Thousands of potential FAA air traffic control trainees, with College Initiative Training (CTI) degrees or previous military experience, have been told by the federal agency they are no longer eligible for job interviews. Instead, the FAA has decided to accept less qualified applicants, apparently to satisfy concerns that the agency needs a more diverse workforce. Flying in and out of FAA "training" airports is about to become lots more fun./sarc
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"All right, Striker, you listen, and listen close. Flying a plane is no different from riding a bicycle; it's just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes."
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Speaking of diversity, I wonder what the Republican/Democrat ratio is at all these Agencies. Maybe a little lawfare is in order to balance things out.
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Oh, yes, that's my FAA! Just ask me how many I've flown since working there for the last two decades.
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Your Just Can't Make This S*it UP. Skin color has more value in the anonymous business of air traffic controlling than skill and experience. What utter BS our government has become.
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.
[AnNahar] Sierra Leone doubled its 
"All right, Striker, you listen, and listen close. Flying a plane is no different from riding a bicycle; it's just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes." 
