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We study victims, this is a good read. I always wonder what the charts would look like if we built the chart per state of the race of shooters, black on black, white on white, black on white, etc... Also how many of the shootings are self defense.
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Hmmm. Raaaaaycis Alertt!!11!! I'd like to see a study on the "Cost to America: Minorities and Illegal Immigrants"
how much have we expended via Great Society and it's various add-ons since - welfare; unemployment; increased policing; hospital care; EBT; crime costs in: a) deaths, b) income loss, c) opportunity lost; educational $ wasted; ...
never happen, I know
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Well the one obvious conclusion (and appropriate response) - that will NEVER see the light of day - would be to take firearms away from blacks and Hispanics.
It would not be possible in any practical way, and it would also violate the US Constitution. So - I guess there is no recourse - the slaughter of blacks and Hispanics by other blacks and Hispanics will simply continue, unabated.
It is too bad that a non-trivial percentage of white people manage to get caught in the cross fire.
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State variation in hospital mortality for firearm-assault injury is even starker when analyzed by insurance status. In five of the six study states, uninsured victims of firearms assault have higher mortality rates than those with some form of insurance.
They do make some good recommendations, such as providing mental health services and substance abuse treatment. However, like much of medicine, it is a reactive treatment, while prophylactic measures tend to be non-judgmental (we can't tell you that being a gangbanger will increase your chances of dying.)
Non-medical-wise, it would require, to use Eric Holder's quote "a serious discussion." Something that neither Mr. Holder or the various leaders are really willing to have.
[MYFOXDC] Police are searching for a man who allegedly stole a toilet from a Virginia laundromat early Friday morning, leaving the business flooded.
Fredericksburg police say it happened at Hillcrest Coin Laundry at around 2 a.m. on August 8. A customer called police after finding the business flooded, and when police checked the security camera footage, they spotted a man going inside the building through an unsecured door and going into the bathroom. Later, they found that the toilet had been taken out of that bathroom.
The man was also caught on surveillance video making an obscene gesture at the camera.
The suspect is described as a white man in his 30s with medium-length blond hair. He was wearing a dark-colored ball cap.
Anyone with information about the suspect is asked to call Fredericksburg police.
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I dunno - I am kinda new to this site and I read this post, compare it to the regular fare, and it's almost like "from the somewhat critical to the somewhat trivial" - am I missing something?
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Glad to see you here Bov. Yes, current events and sardonic rants minced with a dash of humor. On occasion, military science. Less frequently, culinary recommendations and interesting recipes. Again, glad to see you.
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Besoeker love your posts - i was like "there's some inside humor I am not getting here and I am mot too proud to ask" - but it looks like filler so no biggie - any way thanks for saying hi and welcomee
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excuse typonese
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Toilet theft is not "filler" it's an on going concern for RAntburgers.
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So, the security camera saw him go in, but didn't catch him carrying the toilet out. Hmmm. (There's a joke involving the word 'flash' in here somewhere...)
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Since you got rid of the throne your country's gone down the crapper. The police need to track him down and FLUSH him out. Otherwise he's just pulling our chain.
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If you've ever tried to flush Moby Dump with 1.6 GPM you would understand that finding working 3 GPM full flush terlit would be too great a temptation not to take it home.
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My limericks are Boardwalk, not Baltic.
Their rhythmic foundation? Basaltic.
But my feet so footloose
Shoot like juice through a goose,
Propelled by a force catastaltic!
[An Nahar] Economic prosperity is the worst enemy of minority languages, said researchers Wednesday who listed parts of Australia and North America as "hotspots" for extinction risk. We don't get to wear funny hats and embroidered jackets anymore either.
Based on the same criteria used to determine the risk of extinction faced by animal and plant species, they concluded that about a quarter of the world's known 6,909 languages were threatened. Take your funny hat off to the last speakers of Vep and Athabaskan.
"Languages are now rapidly being lost at a rate of extinction exceeding the well-known catastrophic loss of biodiversity," the U.S.-European research team wrote in the Royal Society Journal Biology Letters. "And we'll all be the worse off for it. How do you say that in Iriquois?"
"Small-population languages remaining in economically developed regions are seriously threatened by continued speaker declines." What do you think they speak in Brittany anymore?
In Alaska, for example, there were only 24 active speakers by 2009 of the Athabaskan people's indigenous language, which children were no longer learning. Toldja so. There isn't that much international commerce carried out in Athabaskan, so it's rapidly going titzup. Ask any Vep.
And the Wichita language of the Plains Indians, now based in Oklahoma, had only one fluent speaker by 2008. How do you know she was fluent? She coulda been lying and you'd never know, wouldja?
In Australia, aboriginal languages like the recently-extinct Margu and almost extinct Rembarunga are "increasingly disappearing", the team wrote. Think of all the great literary works that disappear with it...
"Economically developed regions, such as North America and Australia, have already experienced many language extinctions," they said. "Nevertheless, small-range and small-population languages still persist in hotspots within these regions. Those languages need immediate attention because of their high extinction risk." What are you gonna do? Require people to speak them? I would have had more respect for the authors of this study had they written it in Vep...
Also at risk were developing parts of the world undergoing rapid economic growth, such as much of the tropics and the Himalayan region, said the team -- citing Brazil and Nepal.
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Can't tell who fisked that but it was "coffee meet keyboard". Made my night. Going down to B & N to see if they have a Vep to English phrasebook.
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Atlanta being an at risk "hotspot" for the extinction of English.
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Bov the frisking in yellow highlight is done by the Fred, owner proprietor and mayor of Rantburg. Other highlight colors of interest belong to Moderators and can be viewed on the right sidebar. Avoid annoying the periwinkle one and the haze gray unit.
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Looks to me like 1) these knobs are sounding the alarm bells in order to justify their own existence and 2) in an offhand way, the natural market is being influenced by the economic market, just as expected. Companies come & go all the time (American Motors, Standard Oil, etc.), so why would these tools expect any different on the language front?
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Nature isn't static. It evolves. The same applies to human organizations and societies. Adapt or perish. You'd think the Left would understand the 'science' it keeps harping about to the 'bitter, bible thumping, gun clutching' crowd.
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I'm going long on Madiba memorial signer Thamsanqa Jantjie. I feel strongly that a correct interpretation will be found and history will vindicate him in the end.
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Keeping an ancient and obscure language alive is a tough business that requires a lot of effort, education, and social cohesion. The Jews did. So have the Armenians and the Irish. But not everyone is up for the challenge.
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Secret Master, I think you and the researchers have it exactly backwards. Minority languages rely on economic isolation, and tend to wilt in market-system economies. It's subsistence farming and, even more, the hunter-gatherer lifestyle which preserves the hyperlocal languages and microcultures they're talking about here.
I've been slowly making my way through Seeing Like a State, and one of the author's main points is how states cultivate uniform cultures in their subject societies so as to make them more "legible", more discernable by central bureaucrats, tax-collectors, and educators. Every serious state cultivates a "national" language, and aims at the dissolution of dialects and sublanguages, because those stand in the way of the state communicating with its taxpayers citizens. The author, being a big lefty, tends to talk about the market in the same terms, but acknowledges that the state and the market both have an interest in macro-communication, and reducing hurdles to economic communication, such as local little pocket languages which set up barriers against trade and thus, prosperity in general.
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Also, both Hebrew and Irish represent state-driven cultural-formation creation of official "national" languages. Or, to put it another way, they're both examples of heritage languages which were used as part of a "nationalizing" state project, wherein they became the official language as part of an attempt to differentiate the society of the new state from the subjects of their former sovereignty (in the case of the Irish Free State) or to form a proper nation from a collection of poly-linguistic groups in the case of Israel and Hebrew.
In the latter case, you had a bunch of Jews from three different regional groupings, who spoke Ladino, Yiddish, English, Arabic, and a vast array of other languages. Hebrew was at least a cultural commonality, which partially explains why it's been far more successful than Irish, which continues to be a notational "national" language.
Anyways, long story short, both Irish and Hebrew were attempts to synthesize a state-supported "majority" language, in a classic case of a state "self-colonizing" its own people. (Again, terminology lifted shamelessly from James C. Scott's Seeing Like a State)
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Poor people find communication harder. Let's keep them poor and force them into making it harder to communicate.
[An Nahar] It's enough to make you choke on your Chablis. In La Belle France, the land of good food and world-famous wine, seven of out 10 people admit they are far from connoisseurs when it comes to the grape.
Responding to the question: "Do you have the feeling you have a good knowledge of wine?" a surprising 71 percent of French people replied in the negative, with only three percent saying they had "a lot" of knowledge.
It appeared that social class has a great deal of influence over one's wine appreciation -- 43 percent of white-collar workers claimed to be connoisseurs but only 16 percent of blue-collar employees.
Polling company Viavoice said this showed a "very elitist" approach to wine in La Belle France but also the "real or imagined feeling for several households faced with tight budgets that they cannot afford quality wine."
Viavoice surveyed 1,015 adults between May 28 and 30 for the poll that was published in the Terre de Vins magazine on Tuesday.
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I had a (former) client who was a wine snob. I did some work for him, he paid me with a few bottles, giving me the standard wine snob description for each bottle while cradling every bottle like he was holding a newborn. It took every ounce of my willpower not to punch him in the face, hogtie the SOB and throw him in his trunk.
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The French know everything they need to know about wine and that is:
"Only French wines atre any good. Everything else is sh.t". At least that is what the French media tell them. Then when you point them at how wines of other countries like United States and Spain are coping international competitions French MSM tell: "These are demagogic wiones tuned to win competitions. They are still sh..t".
However an observation: the standards for telling you know about wine can be different depending on counytries. In a country where there are hundreds of wines you can feel you know little if you only know fifty of them. In, say, Scotland you could think you are an expert if you can distinguish between a white and a red wine.
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If I have to use any tools to open the wine, it takes too long; just be careful when you sniff the cap not to pass it too close to your nose, otherwise the metal burr on it will cut.
[An Nahar] In a scenario more usually associated with its cousin, cricket, a baseball game in Japan dragged on for four days with two high school teams slogging it out over a record 50 innings.
Chukyo and Sotoku began their slug-fest on Thursday in the semi-final of Japan's high school rubber-ball baseball championship in Akashi, western Japan.
But after the usual nine innings in which both teams' pitchers outfoxed all batters for a scoreless draw, the game went into extra time.
At the bottom of the fifteenth the umpire called it a day and ordered the teams to come back to the field after a night's rest.
For two solid days, batters repeatedly stepped up to the plate only to be dismissed without a single run being scored.
It wasn't until Sunday morning that Chukyo's captain broke the deadlock, walloping a double in the record-breaking 50th inning.
That inspired a teammate, who scored one more later in the inning, giving Chukyo a hard-earned 3-0 victory.
It also landed Taiga Matsui, the team's ace pitcher, with a truly impressive set of figures, having been hit just 26 times off a whopping 709 balls.
But there was no rest for Chukyo, who were back on the field hours later, dispatching fellow finalists Miura Gakuen in a more reasonable afternoon-length game.
The Japan High School Baseball Federation said the semi-final was the longest match that had ever taken place in the high school championship, which was started in 1956.
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OK, I'll do it.
Insert stupid tasteless joke about 'banzai charge in the 47th inning'...
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[Iran Press TV] An outbreak of the Ebola virus has killed over 1,900 people in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
"As of this week, we are reporting 3,500 cases confirmed in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and more than 1,900 deaths -- and the outbreak is rising," WHO Director-General Margaret Chan told a news conference in Washington on Wednesday.
Chan, however, expressed hope that the disease can be contained "in six to nine months."
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Imagine the outcry when a genetically engineered Ebola solution is made available. It will make the Polio and GMO crop protests seem like a sneeze of history.
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When warlords run rampant for over a decade, there's no chance for schooling, and farming is disrupted. So a country loses an entire generation of potential doctors and nurses and people who understand how things work. You can't "make farm" when you're kicked off your land by warlords, so how are you going to teach your kids to grow rice? So now they have few resources, in human development and in raising their own food. Now Ebola has closed schools again.
[Business Insider] Seventeen fake mobile phone towers were discovered across the U.S. last week, according to a report in Popular Science. Tip firya Clyde, they are not "fake," they simply do not route traffic, at least not to the party you're attempting to call.
Rather than offering you mobile phone service, the towers appear to be connecting to nearby phones, bypassing their encryption, and either tapping calls or reading texts.
Les Goldsmith, the CEO of ESD America, used ESDÂ’s CryptoPhone 500 to detect 17 bogus mobile phone towers. ESD is a leading American defence and law enforcement technology provider based in Las Vegas. ESD is was a leading American defence and law enforcement technology provider
With most phones, these fake communication towers towers are undetectable. But not for the CryptoPhone 500.
It is a customised Android device that is disguised as a Samsung Galaxy S III, but has highly-advanced encryption.
Goldsmith told Popular Science: “Interceptor use in the U.S. is much higher than people had anticipated. One of our customers took a road trip from Florida to North Carolina and he found eight different interceptors on that trip. We even found one at South Point Casino in Las Vegas.”
The towers were found in July, but the report implied that there may have been more out there. Although it is unclear who owns the towers, ESD found that several of them were located near U.S. military bases. Proximity to U.S. military installations enables connectivity to secure systems. Next question please.
“Whose interceptor is it? Who are they, that’s listening to calls around military bases? Is it just the U.S. military, or are they foreign governments doing it? The point is: we don’t really know whose they are,” Goldsmith said to Popular Science.
It’s probably not the NSA — that agency can tap all it wants without the need for bogus towers, VentureBeat reported:
Not the NSA, cloud security firm SilverSky CTO/SVP Andrew Jaquith told us. “The NSA doesn’t need a fake tower,” he said. “They can just go to the carrier” to tap your line. Bypassing the "carrier" saves a lot of paperwork. Time is money.
ComputerWorld points out that the fake towers give themselves away by crushing down the performance of your phone from 4G to 2G while the intercept is taking place. So if you see your phone operating on a slow download signal while youÂ’re near a military base Â… maybe make that call from somewhere else.
In an amazing coincidence, police departments in a handful of U.S. cities have been operating “Stingray” or “Hailstorm” towers which — you guessed it — conduct surveillance on mobile phone activity. They do that by jamming mobile phone signals, forcing phones to drop down from 4G and 3G network bands to the older, more insecure 2G band. Jamming, yes quite an amazing coincidence.
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Customer: Dude my Phone's not workimg, just says "searching"
SmartPhone rep: are you in a good cellular coverage area? how many bars?
Customer: Dude I am standing right next to a tower wtf!!!
SmartPhone rep: uuuuumm.....have you tried restoring your phone...???
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The small Stingray units are down to the size of a large paperback book now. The tech's can now walk through a complex or building and 'chase' a phone down to a 10 meter locale, with the GPS off.
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ed - before GPS in phones we could do better than that at "Batwings" but the spooks would never listen when we tried to tell them how because they told us they were smarter then us and knew it all.
The secret is the power strength measurement off the pilot beams. (for CDMA) A phone is constantly making these looking at many many pilots (each carrier sector base has at least one) . So with PSMs from over 17(normal min) pilots you can triangulate pretty damn well. Also if they are in a call the call detail logs (infrastructure side) show constant measurements for each leg of a call because the phone needs to decide when to do it's spiderwalk of soft, softer or hard handoffs (hard is a good way to drop a call) The phone constantly gives its measurements to potential hand-in sites as one moves about in in a call. You have to know pretty damn well where the phone is to make the call work in the first place since you are punching in on your Walsh Code at the precise time to not interfere with others and that requires knowledge of exact distance to the base/carrier/sector transmitter. For that reason all base stations have a GPS with time because every phone needs to know the exact time too. Prior to GPS in the phone they derived position only from the time signal in each of the pilots. Way before GPS we could calculate it down to inches.
Further CDMA background - in CDMA it is normal to be connected to more than one base/carrier/sector transceiver at a time. You then do a spiderwalk of moving one leg of the call while keeping the others. If you are a normal customer your call typically has 3 legs. If you are a discerning customer and pay through the nose your call can have N-legs where N is directly related to $. If you are GSM tough titties it's not that elegant so you drop a lot.
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Also, if any side of a cellphone conversation has the receiver and transmitter in the same hard-case you can kiss the native encryption goodbye.
That's because one side of the base is easy to decrypt and you can crack the otherside by sonic feedback through the case making an echo of the message visible in the more encrypted side of the conversation. This provides enough of a hint to crack the encryption. (use hands free stuff on both sides) That said a good portion of a call can be recovered from the call detail log even if it wasn't one of the random calls sent to the FBI under CALEA. (oh and the FBI is entitled to all data under CALEA from every phone)
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Also, unless turned off or the battery removed, your phone periodically tells the system where it is so the system can know where to ring an incoming call or send a text. So your position is always noted if a phone is on.
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CrazyFool, some auto companies have been known to embed cellphones into engine computers and other devices for delivering actual use engineering statistics to the company. Unless you can sniff for it you would never know it's there. They know who owns the car (DMV registration) so if you have one of those autos your auto's position is always known.
The pressure sensor in your tires is announcing itself to EPA sensors on the roads and highways. It has enough info to know the exact serial number of the tire so you can be tracked that way.
At one point some idiots at EPA (Clinton era) wanted the ability to remotely shut your car down if it didn't have proper tire inflation with only the EPA able to revive it. Imagine the accidents when the EPA shut you down on the inside lane at 80mph in heavy traffic.
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USN, Ret - I used to work designing, testing, gathering the infrastructure side of call flows, stats and such at the company with the batwings logos.
I hated CALEA - its un-American. When I balked at some of it they brought in H1B visa holders to do it as they had no tradition of constitutional rights.
I've had really lucrative ideas nixed by drones from a 3 letter org because their current sats couldn't snoop on it in another country. (US was never the problem as FBI gets all data on the land side.) Same for other mediums then RF. "You can't do that. We can use it to spy. We don't care if it has a market valuation in the 100s of billions to trillions we claim it."
Autos and tires - look at ODB stds and some extensions that the EPA and Clinton's wanted.
odb-iii starts getting bad
http://lobby.la.psu.edu/_107th/093_OBD_Service_Info/Organizational_Statements/SEMA/SEMA_OBD_frequent_questions.htm
[Al Ahram] Lesotho's embattled prime minister, who fled to South Africa at the weekend after an apparent bid to oust him, returned safely to his home country on Wednesday, an aide said.
Prime Minister Tom Thabane "has crossed into the country," his advisor Samonyane Ntsekele told AFP, speaking on the phone from the premier's official residence. "He got in safely."
[Al Ahram] 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... 's inquisitors religious police issued a rare apology Wednesday after members roughed up a British resident of Riyadh over paying at a women-only cash desk.
The Commission of the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, known unofficially as Mutawaa, also vowed to punish the assailants, after an investigation prompted by a YouTube video showing members attacking the man and his Saudi wife.
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reading between the lines here a bit - dude is "British" but married to a Saudi woman (so we get he is a muslim, coz islam does not permit an infidel to marry a muslimah - somewhat doable in some parts of the world but NOT KSA)
So is this inheritor of the millenia of British culture kinda getting a clue here - inquiring minds want to know - coz i recollect he ran to the British Embassy/Consulate for recourse
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So is this inheritor of the millenia of British culture kinda getting a clue here - inquiring minds want to know - coz i recollect he ran to the British Embassy/Consulate for recourse
This is the previous article posted at Rantburg on the subject, from two days ago, Bov Flimbers. It doesn't say anything about the British embassy, so perhaps you read that somewhere else. As to whether the gentleman got a clue, as a long time expat resident before he went native, he ought not have had any delusions about the level of evil baked into the Saudi system. On the other hand, the fact of the formal apology suggests he married into a family with a good deal of influence, independent of the worldwide loss of face from the posting of the Video on YouTube.
Even I, little Midwestern housewife that I am, knew about Saudi Arabia long before I discovered Rantburg. My husband came back shaken from his first business trip there in 1987. "Now I know," he said, "what living under fascism must have been like." And so Mr. Wife was happy each time to be able to use me as an excuse to turn down his management when they offered him assignments in Saudi Arabia and later Yemen. "Can't possibly," he'd say each time. "Jewish wife. You understand." And so they had to.
Much of the airport at Lugansk city has been destroyed by Ukrainian tank units as they retreated, according to pro Russian media.
A little over 10 days ago the airport at Lugansk had been overrun by Ukrainian Army units, notably the Ukrainian 80th Airmobile Brigade and armor units and others, giving the Ukrainian government a foothold in one of the two cities in contention in this two month old war. Pro Ukrainian and western media at the time proclaimed battles in the area over.
But now, according to pro Russian militia, about 13 soldiers from the 80th Airmobile Brigade were captured in ongoing fighting for the airport as those forces were driven out of the area.
Three days ago, Ukrainian military units were forced to withdraw from the area by pro Russian militia, which the militias claimed as a victory. Ukrainian media reports at the time were that Ukrainian military forces had been considering making the airfield useless due to fears of a possible future Russian use in case of invasion.
Apparently Ukrainian military forces made good on that threat. However, it is also reported that Ukrainian forces have suffered heavy losses in those battles. Foreign media said the destruction of equipment and buildings in the area of the airport was claimed to be total.
Over the past three days much of the fighting in Lugansk had been concentrated around the airport and in areas north as militia forces were forced to expand the scope of their operations. Pro Russian media in Ukrainia, such as the military blogger Colonel Cassad have come to the conclusion that Ukrainian military units have been defeated in Lugansk and elsewhere, and that the Ukrainian government is planning a general retreat west to the Dnepr over the next ten days or so.
Pro Russian militia media reports that the Ukrainian forces have suffered severe losses in heavy and light armor around the area of Lutugino on Highway H21. Pro Russian militias also have captured several outlying settlements including Novosvetlovka, Khryaschevatoye and Novoannovka, as well as Georgievka.
Battles between pro Russian rebels and Ukrainian military units have continued to the north of Lugansk.
Militias claim to have captured a key town, Schastye which sits astride H21 at the crossing at the Donetsk River. Militias say two days ago they captured a high point in the area, near Vesyolaya Gora
According to data provided, the control of the crossing prevents Ukrainian military units from threatening Luganks from the northwest, using H21.
Around the area of Ilovaisk, in southeast Donetsk, the total reduction of the pocket of Ukrainian forces is nearly complete, according to both pro Russian and foreign media. The only remaining Ukrainian forces are in nearby Mospino.
Further south of Lugansk, pro Russia militia forces have captured Peremozhnoe. Ukrainian losses are reportedly six tanks, four APCs and ICVs, six trucks, and 120 killed.
[An Nahar] When Russian paratrooper Nikolai Kozlov was deployed to Crimea to help Moscow take over the peninsula from Ukraine, his parents were proud of him.
Six months later Kozlov is disabled for life, an amputee now recovering in hospital from wounds incurred on a Kremlin-orchestrated covert mission to Ukraine to prop up separatists fighting against Kiev.
The paratrooper's uncle, Sergei Kozlov, said his brother asked him to help take care of the young man in the hospital.
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It looks like most Russians are still peasants in their mindset, blinding themselves to the truth, readily accepting state propaganda that contradicts reality, and blinding themselves, wrapping themselves in their own ethnic mythology. It's what keeps Putin in power. And Obama as well, since that description fits Obama voters as well.
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Precisely OS. Also vitally important to keep the proles focused on the lower tier and while a the same time, enlarging their numbers. This fact has escaped neither Vlad or our Champ.
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And Obama as well, since that description fits Obama voters as well.
Definitely. Was listening to Donk call-ins on CSPAN yesterday. It is surprising how many of these calls were Kool-Aid drinkers still. You have to wonder what color their sky is?
[Iran Press TV] US President Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... 's efforts in Estonia to form a coalition against Russia is a "diversion" and illustrates the "height of hypocrisy," an American author and former CIA and NSA contractor says.
Steven D. Kelley made the comments after he was asked by Press TV about Obama's statement in Estonia on Wednesday that the United States will not be intimidated by ISIL faceless myrmidons after the beheading of a second American journalist and will build a coalition to "degrade and destroy" the group.
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All these nations lite should look up South Vietnam, or the Kurds on Wikipedia.
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If you're a US client, (1) never shoot up your 'home' ammunition, and (2) keep a bag packed.
You have to remember that most of the people in upper echelons of the US government regard their own spouses and children as disposable assets. On that basis...
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Putins propaganda machine is running at full throttle, spreading lies, half truths and disinformation far and wide.
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OldSpook. Remeber who is the POTUS? Rember? Could be that is Putin's propganda machine or could be that Barack Hussein Obama is trying to set divisions between infidels.
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All these nations lite should look up South Vietnam, or the Kurds on Wikipedia.
The fate of South Vietnam didn't get you to stop Being Mean To The Palestinians, it hasn't stopped you from committing acts of war like Stuxnet against Russian allies like Iran, or bombing Russian ally Syria's attempts to build nuclear plants.
You seem in love with the idea that everyone has to be made to surrender to the local Russian proxy except for you.
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I'm in love of self defence, and I'm against aggressors---they're the bad guys no matter if they're animated by love of Allan or love of "Human Rights".
#7
South Vietnam wasn't the aggressor, any more than Ukraine was the aggressor; they've done a lot less to Russia than Israel has done to the Alawite regime in Syria over the last five years, up to and including bombing peaceful-uses-of-nuclear-energy laboratories.
Iran was Minding Its Own Business when y'all decided to sick Stuxnet on them.
And Germany had a propaganda line that they were minding their own business when Those Dastardly Poles attacked their radio station.
You just choose to believe Russian propaganda about who's the agressor in Ukraine and choose to disbelieve it about the Marvellous Homeland Stalin created for Jews in the Autonomous Oblast, choose to disbelieve it about Iranian and Syrian peaceful uses of nuclear energy, etc....
#8
I just chose to believe facts. And not rely on brainless slogans and 3rd grade level rhetorical tricks. If you too dumb/intellectually dishonest to realize that transnational progressivism is the new Nazism/Communism/Islam, and that USA has allowed itself to become this foul creed's enforcer, that's your problem---not mine.
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By the title I was thinking the 'stans were involved. I don't think we should do anything to arm or aid the 'stans.
Estonia and the baltic republics are a different story but I sort of thing we should be telling them to go neutral and be really nice to Vlad rather than side with us and irk the Russians unnecessarily.
Then again I've felt we should have rallied Eastern Europe into a neutral block as not to irk the Russians (who tend towards a high level of unhelpful Paranoia).
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Grom, sorry old fellow, but you are suckj a fuckwit scophant when it comes to Russian Propaganda that its useless toi try to talk to you - you refuse to consider anythgin that might mean you'll have to admit you're wrong. I guess you big bad russians must be VERY afraid of the Estonian and Latvian attacks per this joke of an article. Pull your head out of your ass, and realize that you have been fed lies. Then we can talk. Until then, enjoy wearing the metaphorical clown suit every time you post on this subject.
[Iran Press TV] Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has rejected a ceasefire plan proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... as "a ploy."
The reaction came on Wednesday after Putin outlined the seven-point peace plan that calls for an end to the "active offensive operations by the (Ukrainian) armed forces" and pro-Russia forces in southeastern Ukraine.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday NATO would guarantee the sovereignty of the Baltic States at a summit in Wales this week but would not change its treaties with Russia, Reuters reported.
"We can count on the sovereignty of the Baltic states being guaranteed," Merkel said at a news conference with Myanmar President Thein Sein.
Unless Russia threatens to turn off the natural gas...
She said that all measures decided by NATO at the summit would comply with treaties between NATO and Russia, but NATO also had to improve its ability to react quickly in the region.
Preferably with Uncle Sugar's boys and money...
"We have to meet the wishes of these countries and reaction times of various months are really of no help," she said.
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[DAWN] Power supply to Landi Kotal was restored on Tuesday after eleven days of suspension caused by falling of three power pylons by strong winds on August 19.
The Tribal Areas Electricity Supply Company (Tesco) officials said that all the uprooted power pylons had been re-erected, restoring electricity supply to the local grid station on Monday night.
They said that technical staff along with local volunteers worked round the clock to restore power supply to Landi Kotal.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Three coppers were placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! on the city courts premises on Tuesday for allegedly stealing four kilograms of hashish from malkhana.
A police official at the City Courts cop shoppe said that the malkhana (storehouse of case property) was being vacated for renovation and repairing works and the suspects -- Ali Shah, Mohammad Nadeem and Ali Nawaz -- were part of a team shifting the case properties to containers near the partly damaged storage facility.
The suspects, who are trainee coppers, stole four packets of hashish, each weighing a kilo, during the process of shifting and were about to leave the courts premises on a bike when they were caught by coppers deputed at the main gate, he added.
A case was lodged against them under the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997.
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You learn something new every day.
I wouldn't have thought there was any need to steal hash in Pakistan. More like "nobody'll miss this."
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[DAWN] A young woman and a middle-aged man on Tuesday fell prey to two different deadly diseases in city hospitals, the former to Naegleria fowleri, better known as the 'brain-eating amoeba', and the latter to the much-dreaded dengue fever.
They said that 32-year-old Hina Ashfaq, a housewife and resident of Adamjee Nagar in 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... -East, had been admitted to a private hospital in a precarious condition where she died a day after on Tuesday.
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Religious comments by Pakistan batsman Ahmed Shehzad to Sri Lanka player Tillakaratne Dilshan after their one-day international last Saturday are being investigated by the Pakistan Cricket Board.
While the players were walking back to the dressing room in Dambulla, Sri Lanka, Shehzad was caught on camera telling Dilshan "if you are a non-Muslim and you turn Muslim, no matter whatever you do in your life, straight to heaven. "
Dilshan's reply was not audible, and Shehzad went on to say, "Then be ready for the fire."
While the players were walking back to the dressing room in Dambulla, Sri Lanka, Shehzad was caught on camera telling Dilshan "if you are a non-Muslim and you turn Muslim, no matter whatever you do in your life, straight to heaven. "
Dilshan's reply was not audible, and Shehzad went on to say, "Then be ready for the fire."
Shehzad was summoned to PCB headquarters in Lahore on Wednesday and asked about his comments, board general manager media Agha Akbar told the Associated Press.
"Ahmed has informed the PCB that it was his personal chat with Dilshan, and there was nothing more to it," Akbar said.
"What we understand is that no Sri Lanka Cricket official or our own manager lodged any complaint."
However, Akbar said the PCB was still investigating the matter. Dilshan was born to a Muslim father and a Buddhist mother and was known as Tuwan Mohamed Dilshan.
He shed his Muslim name shortly after his international debut in 1999 and took up the name Tillakaratne Mudiyanselage Dilshan with an ethnic Sinhalese-Buddhist identity.
His childhood coach Ranjan Paranavitana said even though Dilshan carried a Muslim name, he and his brothers and sisters followed their mother's religion from their childhood.
Dilshan scored an unbeaten 50 on Saturday and powered the home team to a seven-wicket victory in the ODI series decider. So I guess Allan was looking out for Dilshan, giving him the little extra "oomph" he needed and Shehzad's the one that was wrong and he's gonna scorch for all eternity. He should become an agnostic right away and that way when he departs this vale of tears he'll just be dead.
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[DAWN] Director Muhammad Naqvi,and British producer Jamie Doran's film Pakistain's Hidden Shame depicts the shocking reality of sexual abuse faced by small boys in the Northern areas of Pakistain.
Just another side of the same problem recently discovered in Rotherham...
The documentary premiered on September 1 on Britannia's Channel 4 and shows the "dark reality of a society living in denial."
[ARABNEWS] Police have jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! three men over the suspected rape and murder of a teenager who had protested against village elders' harassment of her father in India's east, an officer said Wednesday.
The father of the 16-year-old said she went missing after trying to save him from being attacked by village elders as punishment for failing to repay a loan, according to the officer.
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public humiliation and execution of the village elders will curb that shit
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India's air force chief has said conclusion of a $22 billion fighter jet deal with French company Dassault Aviation was imminent after missed deadlines and delays.
Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha told an Indian newspaper that the military could not afford any more hold ups of the 2012 deal to supply 126 French-made Rafale fighters. Raha said a deadline for finalisation of the deal had not been set but added "it's going to happen soon."
He also appeared to throw cold water on attempts to re-enter the race for the giant contract by a European consortium that makes the Eurofighter, a rival to the Rafale.
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[Al Ahram] A developer of Israel's offshore natural gas deposits says it has signed a letter of intent to sell gas to Jordan over a 15-year period.
Noble Energy Inc. says under the letter of intent, it will sell 1.6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas to neighboring Jordan's National Electric Power Company Ltd.
A front man for Noble would not discuss the value of the deal. Israeli media said it was worth some $15 billion.
In an announcement Wednesday, Houston, Texas-based Noble said the gas would be supplied at a border location between the two countries, with infrastructure that has yet to be built.
The agreement is subject to each country's regulatory approvals. The gas will come from Israel's Leviathan field, which is expected to come online in 2017.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Atlanta being an at risk "hotspot" for the extinction of English. 
I'm going long on Madiba memorial signer Thamsanqa Jantjie. I feel strongly that a correct interpretation will be found and history will vindicate him in the end. 
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[Iran Press TV] An outbreak of the Ebola virus has killed over 1,900 people in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
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...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[DAWN] Director Muhammad Naqvi,and British producer Jamie Doran's film Pakistain's Hidden Shame depicts the shocking reality of sexual abuse faced by small boys in the Northern areas of Pakistain.
