[DAWN] A prominent Islamic scholar and longtime head of a suburban reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... school has been charged with sexually abusing a 23-year-old woman who worked at the school, authorities said Tuesday.
A civil suit filed hours later accuses him of abusing that employee and three students.
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In a letter to space technology company, Bigelow Aerospace, the FAA says it intends to modify its licensing regulations to "encourage private sector investments in space systems by ensuring that commercial activities can be conducted on a non-interference basis," according to Reuters.
Under such license, the company that develops inflatable space habitats, will have exclusive rights to a territory and related areas on the moon, where it can set up an inflatable habitat and perform mining and exploration.
However, this initiative was met with hesitation by the US State Department, which reminded the FAA that the US is a signatory to the 1967 United Nations treaty, which governs activities on the moon.
The UN Outer Space treaty requires countries to authorize and supervise non-government entities operating in space.
"We didn't give (Bigelow Aerospace) a license to land on the moon. We're talking about a payload review that would potentially be part of a future launch license request. But it served a purpose of documenting a serious proposal for a US company to engage in this activity that has high-level policy implications," George Nield, associate administrator for the FAA's Office of Commercial Transportation who wrote the letter told Reuters.
The letter was written in coordination with US departments of State, Defense, Commerce, as well as NASA and other agencies involved in space operations.
Bigelow Aerospace plans to test a space habitat at the International Space Station this year, and then operate free-flying orbital outposts for customers, including government agencies, research organizations, businesses and even tourists. In 2025, it intends to launch a $12 billion project of a series of bases on the moon.
[MIAMI.CBSLOCAL] A 90-year old's home was destroyed by police conducting a raid but it appears they got the wrong house.
The elderly woman shared her story of terror and what police are doing to clean up the mess.
She's called Riviera Beach home for 25 years, but back on December 18th around 1 p.m., the 90-year-old woman, who asked not to be identified, had some uninvited guests.
"I don't know how the cops got in here. The noise woke me up when something said boom! Like a bomb or something," said the 90-year old.
There was shattered glass, a busted door, and traces of a flash bang device.
Riviera Beach Police said after evidence of criminal activity, they got a search warrant.
"Cops standing over here talking about where's the drugs? I said what? What drugs? Ain't no drugs in here," she said.
Police searched the home with drug sniffing dogs but came up empty-handed.
"I've never been tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! , never been in jail," said the 90-year old.
Riviera Beach Police said the search warrant was executed at the correct address and while the resident may not have had any knowledge of drugs being sold from her home, it doesn't mean it didn't happen.
The department has since put up temporary repairs and has decided to pay for new windows and doors.
The resident is supposed to get a new door later this week -- and new windows by February 28th.
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If they got the info from a tip they should have Triple-checked the address before going in, and the tipster should now be doing hard time and the cops that green lit this should be looking for a job.
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Miami needs the sh*t sued out of them. Bunch of police military wannabes doing this need to be shut down. And their leaders prosecuted.
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Now her bigger issue is all the lawyers busting her door down. We see this over and over. The Chief said the actions were going on despite her knowledge of it. OK, so if the grandson is selling they should have tracked him and busted him. But no! They perform an early morning raid, with absolutely NO knowledge of who is inside the dwelling. Christ they should have watched the place to insure they were not raiding a bunch of Hells angels. But some chief looking for some dramatic news to insure his reelection. Amateurs!
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The cops that did this need to be held PERSONALLY responsible, as doe the judge that approved it and the prosecutor that went to the judge for the warrant.
Their homes and property should be up for seizure in a civil action.
[NYTIMES] Tens of thousands of Argentines marched through the capital Wednesday demanding answers in the mysterious death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman exactly one month after he was found in his bathroom with a bullet in his right temple.
In a case that has posed one of the strongest challenges to President Cristina Fernandez, protesters waved Argentine flags and carried white signs with black letters that read "Justice!" and "Truth!" Many also carried umbrellas to repel a burst of summer rain.
Blanca Perez, 81, said she believed Nisman had been murdered and the government needed to account for what happened.
"If we don't have justice, we won't have liberty," she said. "The government has lost control of the situation."
Organized by several prosecutors, protesters walked from Congress to the iconic Plaza de Mayo in downtown Buenos Aires. Police didn't immediately provide a crowd estimate, but the 10-block stretch, plus many surrounding streets, burst with people, making it one of the biggest of several marches since Nisman's body was discovered Jan. 18.
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New narrative, Sohrab and Rustum's,
Revised to appeal to the Muslims:
Barack and his fathers
Join forces like brothers
And dance duty-free through our customs.
For a map, click here. You can enlarge the map, if you open it separately.
By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
The rebel campaign to encircle and destroy between 6,000 and 8,000 Ukrainian solders ended on Wednesday morning as hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers held within the pocket began to surrender to pro Russian rebels, according to Russian and Ukrainian language news and videos accounts.
Although the pocket was created ten days ago, and sealed at Logvinova February 9th, rebel forces say they continue to search for and eliminate armed resistance inside the pocket, and that effective resistance is at an end.
Debaltsevo is a rail and road center that serves the region, and has been a critical problem for the rebels since a Ukrainian attempt to encircle Donetsk city ended last August. It was unclear back then how many forces were inside the salient created when the Ukrainian Army in conjunction with another more famous -- and failed -- operation in the south at Ilovaisk, failed to link up and encircle Donetsk. But when the rebel encirclement operation began to unfold four weeks ago, it was known that as many as 8,000 Ukrainian troops occupied Debaltsevo and several other nearby towns.
Originally, the rebels' plan was to cut off the salient at Svetlodarsk and Mironovskii, which would net all 8,000 troops, but Ukrainian immediate counterattacks put an end to "Plan A" -- as Russian military analyst Boris Rozhin called it -- and thus, began Plan B. At one point before February 9th, Ukrainian troops managed to successfully drive rebel forces from Troitskoye on the eastern side of the salient.
Until February 9th, rebel forces attacked all along the walls of the salient taking Uglegorsk and eastern sectors of Debaltsevo, which turned out to be in fact a subsidiary operation meant to pin down Ukrainian troops to their positions as more mobile forces attempted to close off the salient. When a tiny gap in the Ukrainian defenses was detected by rebel forces, a Donetsk special forces light rifle company, reinforced with tanks and armored fighting vehicles took the tiny farming community of Logvinova in a coup de main at night in a six hour operation covered with artillery fire.
It wasn't until just three days ago that the Ukrainian ministry of defense publicly admitted that several thousand Ukrainian troops had been surrounded, and cut off from supplies and relief. Between the successful completion of the Logvinova operation and the Ukrainian admission that something was wrong, a few attempts had been made to either relieve or resupply forces from the outside, but those which did come into contact with rebel forces at Logvinova were destroyed. Ukrainians also repeatedly attempted assaults on other rebel held towns including Kalynivka, Redkodub, and Lozove.
News did leak out, however, that the supply situation was critical just three days after the lid on the pocket was snapped shut by rebel forces. A series of reports written by Nellie Werner for lb.ua revealed just how bad the situation was and how quickly it went from bad to worse.
According to one article published February 13th, a soldier in the Ukrainian 40th "Krivbass" Separate Mechanized Rifle Battalion, identified as Nikolay Kolesnik complained in a Facebook posting that Ukrainian commanders were not reacting to requests to withdraw even though the unit had been completely surrounded in Debaltsevo.
It is important to note that by February 12th, rebel units had already snapped the pocket in Debaltsevo shut only three days before, and that rebel attacks and probes had reached inside Debaltsevo at some points, while barely reaching the outskirts in others.
According to the lb.ua article, eight soldiers were reported wounded with another five dead. The dead and wounded could not be evacuated in any case, since parts of the battalion has been separated from the main body.
Another soldier reported in social media that rebel rocket artillery fire was hitting their positions every 15 minutes.
The following day, rebel soldiers appeared at the battalion checkpoint and offered safe passage in exchange for abandoning arms and equipment. The offer was rejected by commanders.
The unit was scattered across parts of Debaltsevo with some checkpoint "kilometers" apart, and some of those checkpoints, namely Moisha and Kol'e surrounded by rebel troops.
Three days later, repeated requests for reinforcements/relief forces and for supplies had been made to the unit's headquarters, now housed inside a residential basement. According to the article, the unit's deputy commander, identified as Colonel Yuri Sinkovsky, said that supplies had been sent, but the article indicated the supplies had not arrived.
Soldiers at the surrounded checkpoints had reported to command that a rebel ultimatum has been received. Put down all weapons and leave, or be destroyed.
At about the same time, the head of the Ukrainian ministry of defense operations in southeastern Ukraine told the Werner that the MoD was aware of the situation, but that the soldiers of the unit were hold not to surrender and to hold out.
Incredibly, the spokesmen of the command, Andrei Lysenko, said, "And, in the case of attacks, our soldiers are ready to fight them off. Communication is, the commander on the spot, and all the units in place..."
In a separate report filed only hours later, Colonel Sinkovsky went before local reporters saying that the General Staff -- i.e. Kiev -- was not responding to requests for reinforcements. Given the time frame, it appears from the report that the Ukrainian general staff either was lying to its commanders about that they were facing, or was generally unaware of just how badly the situation in Debaltsevo had deteriorated.
The following day, February 17th, commenting by phone, Colonel Sinkovsky said that his units were just sitting and awaiting reinforcements. There were dead, wounded and prisoners, and the roads were mined.
An attempt to move wounded from one checkpoint ended with ten dead and "many wounded" as the column ran onto a minefield.
Colonel Sinkovsky told Werner that his hope was for reinforcements or a counteroffensive, "but just to watch them die, it is impossible." Soldiers said that rocket artillery was falling on their positions, but that no one was hurt in those attacks. Communications were improved enough that Colonel Sinkovsky was in contact with four of his outposts.
Andrei Lysenko said much the same as he said the day before: "I have no information on the 40th battalion now," when he was contacted by Werner
"In Debaltseve now fierce fighting on the outskirts of the city. Sabotage and reconnaissance groups constantly assaulting our positions. We repel these attacks around the perimeter in Debaltsevo."
Breakout
According to another story filed on February 18th, parts of the 40th Battalion and Ukrainian 128th Brigade attempted a breakout of Debaltsevo, reaching as far as Novogrigorevka, which was already in rebel hands, this time newly deployed Cossack units. It is unclear in the story how many made it out, only that a number of dead and wounded were eventually evacuated from the area, in a humanitarian corridor to an area where the Red cross could take them into custody.
According to the story, the breakout group continued to fight until they ran out of ammunition. Indications in the article are that the unit was nearly completely destroyed in the attempt, and that the commander, Sinkovsky was probably facing charges for the breakout attempt.
According to Donetsk Defense Ministry spokesman Lt. Colonel Eduard Basurin, a breakout attempt by Ukrainian forces was destroyed, as he put it, yielding 153 prisoners including 12 officers. How many were from Ukrainian 40th Battalion and how many were from the Ukrainian 128th Brigade are unknown. Basurin in his daily summary said 150 Ukrainians were killed, but it is unknown how many were from the breakout attempt
It is unknown if Colonel Sinkovsky survived he breakout attempt.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com. Click here for a list of stories in the The 2014 War in Ukraina category.
[Hurriyet Daily News] NATO on Wednesday urged Russia to withdraw all forces from eastern Ukraine and to end its support for the pro-Moscow separatists as a ceasefire appeared to unravel.
"I urge Russia to withdraw all its forces from eastern Ukraine, to stop all its support for the separatists and to respect the Minsk agreement," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in the Latvian capital Riga.
"The ceasefire has not been respected," he told reporters before meeting with EU defence ministers and said he was "deeply concerned by the deteriorating situation" in eastern Ukraine.
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Russia replaces with detailed travel instructions for NATO and its Supremo.
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I remain dedicated to the belief that there will be no US-NATO vs Russia war, as the main threat to Russia in the NT stems from Radical Islam, i.e. ISIS/ISIL + Al-Nusra, etc. NOT the US-NATO/EU.
The above being said, unfortunately we still have to "go through the motions" of OWG Globalist-led, US-vs-Russia, Other MilPol Confrontationism + pray the Non-Gobies got the Memo.
Again, OWG GLOBALISM = THE "SOLE" SUPERPOWER US-N-ONLY-THE-US IS THE ONE WHOM HAS TO UNILATERALLY GIVE UP OR FALL BACK AROUND THE WORLD SO THAT ITS OWG GLOBALIST CO-SUPERPOWER SIBLINGS RUSSIA, IRAN, + CHINA, ETC. CAN RISE TO PARITY RESULTING IN OWG-NWO + GLOBAL PEACE.
At least the above is the Premise or Ideal.
OTOH, the "GREAT GAME" = MILPOL WORLD HISTOIRE' = "MURPHY'S LAW" = WHAT CAN GO WRONG WILL WRONG - no matter any pre-existing agreement or "understanding", iff the US andor a Co-Superpower can't or won't defend its interests or territories, etc. another Co-Superpower andor Wannabe may try to take it over for themselves. THUS THE US + WORLD POWERS ARE AT POTEN REAL EXISTENTIAL RISK IFF THE GLOBIES MISCALCULATE.
Lest we fergit, its the US-WEST = JUDEOCHRISTIAN WORLD that's helping Islam or the Islamic World to NUCLEARIZE, to include poten Jihad-happy Radical Islam.
Again, Radical Islam's University-educated Top Leaders may understand or comprehend the concept of OWG-NWO + Globalism, but Non-University, Radical-Madrassa-n-Street-educated Ahmed Six-Pack or lower may NOT, MORESO BECAUSE AS IN THE WEST AHMED'S LEADERS AREN' TELLING OR EXPLAINING OWG-NWO + GLOBALISM TO HIM.
Out here in WESTPAC, both CHINA + RADICAL ISLAM are increasingly just over the horizon + steadily getting closer - HOW ANTI-US US GLOBALIST POTUS OBAMA + ALIGNED RESPOND TO PUTIN'S = RUSSIA'S AGRESSIONISM MAY HAVE A PROFOUND OR DETRIMENTAL EFFECT ON CHINA'S ACTIONS, OR LACK OF ACTION, AGZ THE US POSITION IN EAST ASIA-PACIFIC.
Already there is Pert fear on the MSM-Net as per possible ISIS/ISIL success in radicalizing those many Milyuhns of INDIAN + ASIAN MUSLIMS to their cause.
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Again, IFF THE OWG GLOBIES DID NOT FEAR CHINESE. ETC. EXPANSIONISM AS PER THEIR OWN AGEND, why would my Ancestors, including some whom weren't technically or actually dead just yet, warn me BACK IN THE 1960'S-1970'S about the retreating US attempting to sink Guam + other strategic Isles in order to deny to MilPol or Geopol enemies.
Or at least the hard land underneath Big Navy + Andersen AFB + former Agana NAS.
What the post-9-11 US Govt. + MSM-Net label as "A2/AREA-DENIAL" [Anti-Access/Area-Denial].
IFF US GLOBIES DO NOT OR NEED NOT FEAR CHINA + NUCLEAR ISLAM, ETC. PER THEIR AGENDA, WHY SINK GUAM OR OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDS AT ALL???
[Hurriyet Daily News] The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has rejected Turkey's appeal to a ruling that said high school students must be allowed to opt out of religious education classes, which are currently compulsory.
ECHR ruled on Sept. 16, 2014, that the Turkish education system was "still inadequately equipped to ensure respect for parents' convictions" and violated the "right to education," in a case stemming from Alevi complaints about mandatory religious classes.
In December 2014, Turkey appealed to the ECHR's Grand Chamber, the court's office of appeal, on the last day available to do so, requesting that the case be reviewed. The Grand Chamber, however, rejected Turkey's appeal on Feb. 17, 2015, with no elaboration, rendering the decision as ultimate.
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Given the level of murder, vehicular homicide, rape, assault, and robbery already committed by illegals, how would you tell the difference other than the usual suspects in the MSM having to work overtime in burying the facts?
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Dem. Rep Gutierrez Warns of Unprecedented Immigrant 'Militancy' but did not mention the coming, catastrophic, decline in cheap, competent, lawn care services...
Heavy snow began to fall in the northern Golan Heights on Thursday afternoon forcing police to close a number of roads. The snow was expected to begin to fall in other parts of the country later in the evening.
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Was thinking the other day about how remarkable it is that people covered in snow can be convinced by the power of the press that the world is warmer than it has ever been. Just boggles the mind.
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.
