[Investors Bus.daily] ar On Cops: As two Mississippi police officers are laid to rest, the FBI says the number of cops feloniously killed in the line of duty soared 89% last year. How much can a cop-vilifying president be blamed for the trend?
Deadly shootings and assaults on cops jumped to 51 in 2014 from 27 in 2013, according to preliminary FBI data.
The total includes the brutal ambush of two New York City policemen as they sat in their squad car in New York on Dec. 20. Their black killer, Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley, indicated that he sneaked up to their parked patrol car and shot them both in the head as payback for the deaths of Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.
This year is shaping up to be as bad, if not worse, for cop killings. Five NYPD cops already are believed to have been shot by black criminals in just the past five months. Last week, 25-year-old officer Brian Moore was fatally shot in the head while in his car, allegedly by career criminal Demetrius Blackwell.
And this week, four blacks were charged with the shooting deaths of Hattiesburg, Miss., police officers Benjamin Deen and Liquori Tate. The cops were ambushed while making a traffic stop. Two of the suspects allegedly then stole their police cruiser as a getaway car.
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Holder should have been included in the hat tip too. One cannot just keep fanning the racial flames for nearly 8 years without reaping the consequences--but then again maybe that was the plan. "O" is working out his inner-issues on the country--kind of like Nero.
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I'm coming to believe that it is a distraction to the masses/payoff to the VIPs for all the immigrants who will continue to marginalize the black communities, especially the loss of the Most Cherished Minority status to Hispanics.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least three Afghan students were tossed in the slammer I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! over alleged sexual harassment of another Afghan student in a private college in India.
The incident reportedly took place on Sunday night in Kondhwa area of Pune where the 21-year-old student was thrashed and sodomized by a group of three people.
Police officials in Kondhwa quoted in a report by Times of India said the incident took place on May 10 at a rented flat where a party was organized by the victim's classmate and was attended by others.
The officials further added All of them had dinner and consumed liquor. Later, one of them played music and asked the complainant to dance. When the latter refused, the suspects started beating him."
Rajendra Mokashi, senior inspector of the Kondhwa cop shoppe, said when the victim shouted for help, one of the suspects gagged him with a piece of cloth.
"The suspect who is pursuing his B Com allegedly sodomised the complainant. The other two attempted to sodomise him," Mokashi said.
He added that the victim somehow managed to escape and approached the cop shoppe.
"We have arrested the suspects under sections 377 (unnatural offence) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code. We have launched a search to trace the fourth suspect. He has also been booked under the same charges" he added.
The case is currently under investigation involving the assistant inspector of the Kondhwa cop shoppe.
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Sandra Erdely with Rolling Stone! Please pick up the white courtesy phone!
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] Marilyn Mosby, the Baltimore City State Attorney in charge of prosecuting six coppers for the death of Freddie Gray, Jr., is coming under increasing criticism from defense attorneys and legal scholars who think she is politicizing the case and using her prosecutorial power to create her own celebrity.
Ms. Mosby has raised eyebrows in several quarters with a media blitz that has spanned from a CNN interview that focused on her courtship with her city councilman husband to her decision to appear on stage with Prince during a rock concert for a song dedicated to Mr. Gray.
The legal experts say Ms. Mosby is in danger of running afoul of the Maryland Bar standards barring prejudicial conduct by prosecutors, or at the very least traveling down a well-worn path of failed celebrity prosecutions like those involving O.J. Simpson, George Zimmerman or the Duke lacrosse players.
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Nice Barack-like arrogant pose
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Eventually Mosby will be recused. There will be a change of venue. After an actual trial, the cops walk. Speeches and pressers about how she fought for justice against a corrupt legal system. More rioting. Manson, er, Mosby is awarded Hero of the People. and her husband's career is safe
[NEWYORK.CBSLOCAL] A rogue group of subway vandals calling them the 'Subway Conquestors' is allegedly on a mission to attack the rail system.
As CBS2's Weijia Jiang reported, they can be seen in video footage sneaking into deserted stations at Canal and Bergen streets, and an underground construction zone at Ninth Avenue.
Police sources believe they were responsible for an kaboom in the Bronx, and have been linked to one at Brooklyn's Nostrand Avenue station in April.
In the Nostrand Avenue incident, police jugged Please don't kill me! Keyshawn Brown, 16, and accused him of placing a piece of metal on the tracks.
"There are plenty of other people out there in the same gang, engaging in the same activities," Max Diamond explained.
Diamond is a self-proclaimed rail enthusiast. He has tracked the group for two years on social media.
He said the acts are getting more extreme as the vandals try to one up each other. They have been accused of changing destination signs to confuse passengers, surfing train cars, and stealing MTA equipment and gear. Y'all keep votin' Democrat now, y'hear? Yer racist if y'don't.
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'Max Diamond' Railroad Private Eye
" It was a dark night, working that rainy shift outta the main yards. Waiting for the 12-oh-five. But I've got 2 more bottles of wine...."
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...There is an old thought that if every Jew in the Third Reich had been prepared to take one SS or Gestapo man with them as they were marched to the camps, the Holocaust never would have happened.
Perhaps this is the attitude we need to take with the ferals. We need to go out, do the things we need to do and want to do...but also to resolve that if they decide they want to attack, one of them will always find themselves broken in a gutter.
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Lord of the Flies redux by the radical left. NYC is gun-free. This is not working out so well for them. There are certain states that are nuts about citizens legally owning and carrying guns where I refuse to travel. These are: California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon and Rhode Island--basically states which don't have reciprocity for our gun permits. The second amendment does not place restrictions on the right to bear arms.
Ever wondered where Ostupid picked up some of his wacky ideas?
It is an obvious truth we too often forget.
At the Albert Einstein Memorial, on the grounds of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., an explanatory sign states a simple fact that refutes the argument President Barack Obama's science adviser once made for redistributing wealth and limiting human population so as to save the human race from a poverty he claimed must inevitably intensify as our numbers increase.
"At Einstein's feet lies a circular sky map representing the planets, sun, moon, and stars, positioned as observed by astronomers from the U.S. Naval Observatory at noon on the day that the memorial was unveiled and dedicated," says the website of the National Academy of Sciences.
"The star map is composed of more than 2,700 metal studs set in a 28-foot field of emerald pearl granite," says the website.
But an explanatory sign erected at the memorial itself makes clear there are far more than 2,700 stars in our neighborhood of the universe -- and they show a certain design.
"We live on a planet that orbits a star, our Sun," says the sign. "The Sun is one of two hundred billion stars that make up our Galaxy, the Milky Way. When you look up at the sky at night, all the stars you see belong to our Galaxy; all are orbiting about a very distant center. The stars in the Galaxy are not distributed at random; most are located in a flattened disk."
Although the Milky Way is just a small part of our universe, we only see a fraction of it -- and sometimes not even that.
"Without a telescope, we see in the night sky only the nearest and brightest stars of our Galaxy, numbering just a few thousand," says the sign at the memorial. "During the day, blinded by the Sun, we fail to see the stars in the daytime sky."
As noted in this column before, John P. Holdren, Obama's chief science adviser, once predicted dismal consequences for the human race unless we curtail population growth and redistribute wealth.
In 1995, Holdren joined with Paul Ehrlich and Gretchen Daily of the Center for Conservation Studies at Stanford to author the opening chapter in a book -- "Defining and Measuring Sustainability" -- that was "Distributed for the United Nations University by the World Bank."
"We know for certain, for example that: No form of material growth (including population growth) other than asymptotic growth, is sustainable," wrote Holdren and his co-authors.
"At the sustainability limit, there will be a trade-off between population and energy-matter throughput per person, hence, ultimately, between economic activity per person and well-being per person," they said.
"This is enough to say quite a lot," they concluded, "about what needs to be faced up to eventually (a world of zero net physical growth), what should be done now (change unsustainable practices, reduce excessive material growth), and what the penalty will be for postponing attention to population limitation (lower well-being per person)."
In Human Ecology, a 1973 book he co-authored with Paul and Anne Ehrlich, Obama's future science adviser put his prescriptions in less clinical terms.
"Political pressure must be applied immediately to induce the United States government to assume its responsibility to halt the growth of the American population," Holdren and his co-authors said then.
"A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States," they wrote. "De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with realities of ecology and the global resource situation."
"Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being," wrote Holdren and his co-authors.
"The situation," they wrote, "is best summarized in the statement: "Whatever your cause, it's a lost cause without population control."
But what if your cause were aiding in the achievement of eternal salvation for each of the net additional human lives God brought into being 20 minutes -- or 20 years or 2,000 years -- after Holdren and his co-authors wrote these words?
Would it have been better, as Obama's future science adviser argued, to halt such net additional human beings from coming into existence in the first place?
Did God truly fail to provide sufficient material resources for the human beings He created and to whom He gave sovereignty over the material world?
The answer to the second question is found in the stars above: We cannot count them all yet, let alone survey them, so we have no idea how vast are the material resources our Creator has put within our potential reach.
The answer to the former question is found by looking back across the extraordinary and sometimes unanticipated improvements in the material well-being of the human race that have occurred just since Obama's science adviser called for inducing "the United States government to assume its responsibility to halt the growth of the American population."
Which one of the inventors of our modern age should the government have halted from coming into being? Could government have picked out the next Einstein -- and let him live -- even if he was to be the 10th child born to a relatively poor family in a relatively crowded city?
Which life would the government deem less worthy than another?
The real threat to the human race is not in adding numbers to our population but in letting a few people in government play God.
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I agree we need population control. I just disagree on who gets to choose what population gets controlled, and how (high explosive control of a significant fraction of the Muslim population of the world looks rather appealing at the moment...)
An incoming Boston University professor who called "white college males" a "problem population" and was publicly criticized by the university's president said on Tuesday she regrets making the remarks. Surely she does. She regrets she got called on it, maybe. She'll try to bury it deeper next time.
Black sociology professor Saida Grundy, who completed her doctorate at the University of Michigan last year, had declared on her now-private Twitter account that "white masculinity is THE problem for America's colleges."
In other recent tweets, she said, "Deal with your white (expletive), white people. slavery is a (asterisk)YALL(asterisk) thing," and "Every MLK week I commit myself to not spending a dime in white-owned businesses. And every year I find it nearly impossible." I'd like to see what would happen to a white professor who said that about blacks.
Grundy on Tuesday said events in the United States over the past year have made "the inconvenient matter of race" an unavoidable topic, but she expressed remorse over what she had said.
"I regret that my personal passion about issues surrounding these events led me to speak about them indelicately," she said in a statement. "I deprived them of the nuance and complexity that such subjects always deserve."
Boston University continued to distance itself from Grundy's racially charged tweets on Tuesday as its president penned an open letter to the campus, saying the comments were "hurtful."
President Robert Brown acknowledged Grundy's right to hold and express her opinions but said her remarks unfairly "typecast" certain groups of people. He stopped short, though, of acknowledging the comments were directed almost exclusively at whites.
"I do not say this lightly or without a great deal of consultation and soul-searching," Brown's letter reads. "I understand there is a broader context to Dr. Grundy's tweets and that, as a scholar, she has the right to pursue her research, formulate her views, and challenge the rest of us to think differently about race relations. But we also must recognize that words have power and the words in her Twitter feed were powerful in the way they stereotyped and condemned other people."
The university, through a spokesman, had previously said it was "offended" by Grundy's statements, many of which were posted online at SoCawlege.com and then elsewhere.
Critics decried the comments as offensive, racist and inappropriate for a professor preparing to teach at a large, racially diverse university.
But supporters said the comments weren't racist. They started the hashtag #IStandWithSaida and launched an online petition that notes the university, the largest in Massachusetts in terms of enrollment, is the place where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. earned his doctorate.
"Racism extends to virtually every institution in American society -- including higher education," the petition reads. "Calling Professor Grundy's tweets racist minimizes the very real effects of racism for people of color in the United States."
Brown, the university president, said Grundy will report for work on July 1.
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"I regret that my personal passion about issues surrounding these events led me to speak about them indelicately," she said in a statement. "I deprived them of the nuance and complexity that such subjects always deserve."
Oh, she'll be just fine. Howard Zinn taught at BU and he was treated like a god.
Looks like there's a new lefty star in town...
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Sociology is one of those soft areas of study--never seemed to me to be particularly rigorous. Any fool/moron/charlatan in the field can express their opinion and get into the media.
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I needed a trigger warning prior to encountering this micro aggression against (old) white males and did not recieve one. Now, therefore, I feel hurt and need a safe space to rage against the good night while healing deep wounds to my unchosen identity. Would ammo be available should I need to eat my weapon??
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"Dealwith your white (expletive), white people. slavery is a (asterisk)YALL(asterisk) thing,"
That comment shows such an appalling ignorance of world history it could only come from a recent graduate of an American university.
"Every MLK week I commit myself to not spending a dime in white-owned businesses. And every year I find it nearly impossible."
The problem, dear girl, is that what we think of as the modern world is pretty much the creation of white people. But feel free to boycott electricity, cars, medicine, computers and all that stuff you see in the grocery stores.
That she does this on MLK* Day only adds irony.
* "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." -- Martin Luther King
[FOX] PHILADELPHIA (AP) - An Amtrak train headed to New York City derailed and tipped over in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, mangling the front of it, tearing the cars apart and killing at least five people. Dozens of passengers were injured, and some climbed out of windows to get away. Train engineer lawyered up, won't talk to police. Mayor Michael Nutter, who confirmed the deaths, said the scene was horrific.
"It is an absolute disastrous mess," he said. "I've never seen anything like this in my life."
He said seven train cars, including the engine, were in "various stages of disarray." He said there were cars that were "completely overturned, on their side, ripped apart."
"It is a devastating scene down there," he said. "We walked the entire length of the train area, and the engine completely separated from the rest of the train, and one of the cars is perpendicular to the rest of the cars. It's unbelievable."
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going 100 mph in a 50 mph restricted speed zone. I had to take my annual Railroad Worker Safety training (to do bridge work in their ROW)just last week, and they told us the trains would follow speed limits because the consequences were dire.
Uh huh
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[BREITBART] "Complaint says crosses at Catholic school offensive, prevent Moslem prayers," reads the headline at BeliefNet. Perhaps Catholic University shouldn't accept Moslems?
It's one of those headlines that sounds like a bad joke, but it isn't. It's not exactly a serious complaint, either, and it isn't coming from actual Moslem students in any event. "Baffled Catholic University officials say they have never received a complaint from any of the schools Moslem students," writes BeliefNet.
In fact, the university expressed its bafflement in a full-length statement: "Catholic University's faithfulness to our Catholic tradition has also made us a welcome home to students of other religions. No students have registered complaints about the exercise of their religions on our campus. We understand that a professor unaffiliated with Catholic University has made public allegations claiming that we are discriminating against our students on religious grounds, but we have not seen any legal filing -- and will respond to them if we do."
The sixty-page complaint was filed with the Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights by a one-man nuisance-lawsuit factory, George Washington University Law School Professor John Banzhaf. Moslem students are but pawns in Banzhaf's game against Catholics. Taken to its logical conclusion, his lawfare would wipe out mosques and Islamic learning centers as well. The rules of engagement in the Establishment's War on Religion have a funny way of changing to accommodate Islam, however, so perhaps those hypothetical logical conclusions will never be reached.
Banzhaf's complaint alleges that the large amount of Catholic imagery draping the halls of Catholic University creates an "offensive" environment in which Moslems are intimidated out of proper reverence for their own religion.
He further alleges the university "does not provide space -- as other universities do -- for the many daily prayers Moslem students must make, forcing them instead to find temporarily empty classrooms where they are often surrounded by Catholic symbols which are incongruous to their religion."
Not only that, but Moslem students forced to make do with Catholic University's chapels find their souls crushed by the oppressive spectacle of "the cathedral that looms over the entire campus -- the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception." Banzhaf insists the Moslem students must be provided with facilities where they can conduct their five-times-daily prayers without having to look at anything Catholic, especially that immaculate-conception Death Star of Catholic piety.
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Moslems offend me.
Islam is a hate crime. So sayeth Mohh-mad.
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Like going to the ballpark and being surprised by the number of baseball caps.
Seriously, is this College by Surprise! ? Did he draw out of a hat? I'm pretty sure if I attended an Islamic university I would expect onions and rugs and to not be allowed into the basement until I failed a marksmanship course.
UPDATE: A second earthquake has struck the nation of Nepal on Tuesday. All Team Rubicon UK and Team Rubicon USA members deployed to Nepal are safe and accounted for.
TRG Supporters,
I’m excited to share with you this first newsletter update from Team Rubicon Global (TRG). Five years ago, when our team was standing in the streets of Port-au-Prince looking over mountains of twisted rebar and rubble, we never imagined Team Rubicon would gain the interest and attention of military veterans around the world. But here we are today, conducting our first combined deployment in Nepal with veterans from the United Kingdom (TR UK) and the United States (TR USA). Before we talk about this historic event, I'd like to share a brief history about how we got here.
TR was founded in Haiti with the belief that military veterans were capable of bridging the critical time gap between natural disasters and conventional aid response. Over the years, the slogan “bridge the gap” became a dual mission, also representing the transition experience TR provides between military service and civilian life. Today, TR USA is a 25,000 member, best-in-class disaster response organization giving veterans three things: purpose, community and identity. These past five years have been one amazing leap of faith after the next, which brings me to a curious thing that started happening years ago.
While Team Rubicon was gaining recognition over the years, hundreds of military veterans from around the world began registering their interest. Veterans from Norway, Canada, UK, Australia, and the Philippines began volunteering to deploy with TR USA operations. Responding to this demand from abroad, the TR USA board made international expansion one its four strategic initiatives. Last August, the TR USA board voted to create a new 501c3 organization called Team Rubicon Global (TRG). With it's predominantly non-American board, TRG will enable the launch of new Team Rubicons and is the global coalition that holds the entire network together. We’re fortunate and honored to have the thought-leadership of our impressive Board of Directors:
• General Sir Nick Parker, former Commander of British Land Forces
• General David Petraeus, former Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq & Afghanistan
• Minister Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg, former German Minister of Defense
• Dr. Charles Kalmbach, former CEO of DBM, Inc. and CFR member
• Jake Wood, Cofounder of Team Rubicon
Which brings us to today. On April 25th, a devastating 7.8 earthquake struck Kathmandu. TR USA immediately began planning for a large deployment of medical and disaster assessment personnel. At the same time, the nascent TR UK was spurred into action and today the British make up one third of the Team Rubicon presence on the ground in Nepal. We couldn't be prouder or more impressed with this team of coalition veterans.
Join us and support TRG, the world’s first international veteran service organization. Together we will transform the lives of thousands of veterans around the world, while at the same time, doing what Team Rubicon does best: get sh*t done.
Best,
William McNully The above update copied from e-mail.
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IIRC Team Rubicon was a hasty put together to make it to Haiti in an effective timeframe. Even if it had been talked about beforehand, that was still impressive. Here we are a few years later, and they have the organizational skills required to deploy to the mountains half way around the world.
[ABCNEWS.GO] A Toronto engineer lost his job Tuesday after a social media firestorm was created by a female TV news hound who fought back against offensive and vulgar comments that disrupted her live interview. Back when I was a tad gents didn't use bad language around women. They didn't even use that much around each other. That was called... oh, what was that word? Oh. "Manners."
Ontario's largest electricity provider, Hydro One, issued a statement saying it has fired one of its employees in connection with the lewd disruption Sunday at a Toronto FC game. In the video, CityNews news hound Shauna Hunt is shown confronting and questioning the men who shouted lewd remarks into her microphone and defended it as part of popular trend.
A Hydro One official identified the employee as Shawn Simoes, but spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to name him for privacy reasons. Simoes is shown in the video using an expletive and calling his friend's remark hilarious before telling the news hound she is lucky they didn't have a vibrator.
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Potty mouth = job gone. Civil mouth = job kept.
Was a lesson learned here? Perhaps the self-destructive, potty mouthed, attention seeking "engineer" may actually obtain some maturity from the whole episode. But I doubt it.
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I don't know, it SOUNDS like the guy was off duty, ie, not working, when he made the lewd comments. He was at a sporting event. I'm not in favor of anyone shouting obscenities, period, but the proper penalty seems to be what the Maple Leafs sports team did -- banning him from all of their games for a year, not being summarily fired from his job.
His employer is Hydro One, an electrical utility, owned 100% by the province of Ontario, so this is, explicitly, a political reaction.
As much as I hate to claim that shouting obscenities should be protected under freedom of speech, I believe the media firestorm that erupts whenever a black/Democrat/feminist/Muslim is insulted/assaulted/killed is intrinsically (and deliberately) unfair.
I have trouble believing that he would have been punished in any way if he'd made the same kind of remarks to a (white) man. Then it would have just been considered 'poor taste', and ignored. But since he attacked a member of a 'protected class' he was given exemplary punishment. Just like back in the middle ages, if a peasant insulted an aristocrat.
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By Chris Covert
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Some members of the Ukrainian nationalist Right Sector political organization have joined the Ukrainian military, according to Russian language news accounts.
Regum.ru reported remarks made by Ukrainian Colonel Andrei Lysenko, spokesman for the Anti Terrorist Operation on Tuesday, in which Colonel Lysenko said that some officers formerly associated with the Dnepr-1 private military battalion have already turned in their guns, drawing new ones from the Ukrainian military.
According to the news account, two other private military battalions have already integrated into the Ukrainian Armed Forces: the Donbass and the Aydar battalions.
Former commander of the Dnepr-1 battalion and member of Right Sector, Yuri Bezera said in the report that some news reports which include members who claim to be part of Right Sector, are in fact not part of it.
A separate report in regnum.ru said that armed Right Sector members will be disarmed by Ukrainian military and police forces by force if they do not disarm willingly. According to the report, negotiations are continuing.
Left out of reporting that private military battalions were integrating was the Azov battalion, one of the more troubling of the volunteer military units. Azov is now deployed in defense of Mariupol, and has refused to leave the Mariupol defense sector or to disarm.
Azov was ordered to disarm or join last April 1st, an order it refused. Instead, according to reports at the time, it reinforced positions in Shirokino, near Mariupol, and has been battling Russian backed rebel units since.
Rebel commanders in the last 10 days have claimed to have received requests from the Ukrainian military to begin shelling Azov positions in Shirokino and Mariupol. Rebel commanders refused the request.
Rebel commanders also claimed two weeks ago that a private military organization was "eliminated" in a special forces operation in Avdievka near the western suburbs of Donetsk, the communications of which Donetsk rebels' electronic intelligence units monitored.
Three weeks ago, it was reported in tsensor.net that elements of the Ukrainian 25th Parachute Brigade and the 95th Airmobile Brigade had deployed near Right Sector headquarters near Dnepropetrovsk, and had disarmed Right Sector members traveling in the area.
The Ukrainian military claimed at the time the deployments were strictly a training exercise.
Ceasefire Violations
Rebel media said Monday their positions in Shirokino were shelled by mortars, and that their positions in northern Luganks were hit by Ukrainian artillery, especially along T1303.
Donetsk defense spokesman Eduard Basurin said Tuesday that Ukrainian artillery hit targets in western Donetsk, including in Spartak and in Oktyabrsky district of Donetsk. Ukrainian artillery also hit rebel positions in Gorlovka and Shirokino.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraina by clicking here.
Reports say South Korea's spy agency has told parliament that the North Korean defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, has been executed. South Korea's Yonhap news agency said that MPs were told Hyon had been killed on April 30 by anti-aircraft fire.
He is thought to have been accused of showing disloyalty to Kim Jong Un. There were few details of the alleged execution, but Yonhap, quoting a national intelligence agency briefing, said Hyon had fallen asleep during an event attended by Kim Jong Un.
Hyon became military chief in 2012 following a purge of officials. He is thought to have been a general since 2010, but little is known about him.
Hyon served on the committee for late leader Kim Jong Il's funeral in December 2011, indicating an influential role within North Korea's ruling elite.
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Never, ever, ever sleep while THE KIM is bored. Kimmie has an imagination, and doesn't mind using it.
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Yeah, the creativity is something like a classic bond villain. In fact, all he needs is some under a mountain base and weapons to destroy the world.
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In reality, somebody has probably gone through the warehouses, noticed that some of the 14.5mm ammo is 1950's vintage, and sent up a report that said "we need to burn through this before it rots".
After that, the thought is father to the deed.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Greece emptied an emergency IMF holding account to repay 750 million euros ($839 million) due to the international lender, a Greek central bank official said, avoiding default but underscoring the dire state of the country's finances.
Time to sell some of the smaller islands?
With Athens close to running out of cash and a deal with its international creditors still elusive, there had been doubts about whether the leftist-led government would pay the IMF or opt to save cash to pay salaries and pensions later this month.
Member countries of the International Monetary Fund are required to keep a holding account which may be used for emergencies but the money can only be used with the lender's approval, the central bank official said.
A government official told Rooters that Athens used about 650 million euros from the holding account and 100 million euros from its cash reserves to make the payment on Monday.
The Greek central bank official confirmed the account had been tapped after government officials met the central bank chief last week to figure out how to make the payment.
"The negative is that the account was emptied but in order to avert a default it was necessary to weigh the options," the Bank of Greece official said.
Made a day early, the payment calmed immediate fears of a Greek default, but Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said on Monday the liquidity situation was "terribly urgent" and a deal to release further funds was needed in the next couple of weeks.
The IMF on Tuesday confirmed Athens had made its payment to the fund.
But it declined to give details about how it was made.
"Regarding aspects of the payment that some of you have asked confirmation about, we don't publish information on the details of members' transactions with the Fund," an IMF spokeswoman said in response to questions about how Greece made the payment.
Central bank chief Yannis Stournaras met Deputy Prime Minister Yannis Dragasakis and Deputy Foreign Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, a top negotiator in talks with lenders, on two occasions last week on how to meet the May IMF repayment, the central bank official said.
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Something about Peter and Paul, I cannot remember exactly but it does not end well.
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Let's get this straight......
I borrow money and put it in an emergency account....
I can't pay the lender so I take the money I borrowed from the lender and give it back to him to pay the load.
House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan said Wednesday that Democrats opposed to President Barack Obama's free-trade push are finding out how difficult compromise with the White House can be. "There's a lot of irony in this story," he said.
"They're getting the taste of the same medicine that we've been getting for many years," the Wisconsin Republican told CNBC's "Squawk Box." He said it's not necessarily satisfying, but "it's clarifying." Congress will eff it up no matter what. I might as well enjoy it.
Senate Democrats dug in Tuesday, blocking debate on a bill to renew the president's "fast track" authority to negotiate trade deals that can pass Congress without being amended.
Obama wants the power to negotiate the long-sought Trans-Pacific Partnership--an issue that's actually putting the White House and Republicans on the same side.
"I can't imagine the Democrats are going to deal the leader of the party, the president, this kind of defeat," Ryan said. "And I think we'll get through this."
The office of the U.S. Trade Representative describes the deal as an "agreement that will open markets, set high-standard trade rules ... and promote jobs and growth in the United States and across the Asia-Pacific region."
"So much is at stake," Ryan said.
"The global economy is happening. There's constant change," he continued. "Are we going to write the rules of the global economy or are we just going to cede it countries link China?"
Labor unions and liberals, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts, oppose the deal--saying it would result in American job losses by making it easier for companies to outsource work and keep wages down.
"We're ready to go," said Ryan. "We, Republicans, believe in trade. And we believe in writing the rule book."
[DAWN] RAWALPINDI: A bridegroom and three wedding guests landed in a police lockup on charges of terrorism after they shot at a police party attempting to stop them from firing in the air in celebration.
A police team was patrolling the streets after midnight when it heard the sound of gunfire from Mohallah Raja Sultan. When the police reached the scene, they found some guests at a wedding party firing in the air in violation of the government ban against celebratory firing.
When the coppers tried to stop the guests from firing, they began yelling at them and one guest started shooting at the cops, injuring Constable Tauqeer Ahmed.
Some other guests began pelting the coppers with stones and beating them, injuring constables Adeel Ahmed, Mazhar Hassan and Amjad Ali.
Sub-inspector Arshad Ali, who is investigating the case, told Dawn the wedding guests threw stones at the coppers, tore their uniform and snatched their cycle of violence.
He said there were 12 people nominated in the FIR and four of them, including the bridegroom, have been jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... and will remain in police custody for seven days.
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Admit it. When you first saw the headline, you thought Baltimore and not the 'Stain. It's an easy mistake to make.
The other week I had the KC@DET game on. Wife thought she heard emergency vehicle sirens and asked, "Are those sirens real or on tv?" I replied, "Well, the game is in Detroit so I'm not sure."
[AnNahar] With Gazoo's supply of drinking water expected to dry up by 2020,
...time enough to plan an orderly removal of the population, though who would want them is a very good question...
a Paleostinian engineer is pioneering a machine to make seawater potable for residents of the coastal territory.
Diaa Abu Assi, a 29-year-old father-of-two, has spent much of his spare time in the past 18 months developing the system, which he hopes will be instrumental in saving lives in the besieged enclave.
"In five years, there will be no drinkable water in Gazoo," Abu Assi says. "Water shortages are a real threat to life in Gazoo. The only solution is to filter water from the Mediterranean."
Funded by Gazoo's Islamic University -- which is linked with the enclave's rulers Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, -- in cooperation with an Omani research organization, the project uses nanotechnology to reduce the salinity in seawater to a drinkable level.
It pumps water at high speed through large iron pipes and filters made of nano-material to extract the saline. The water is then retreated with minerals that were removed during the desalination process.
Needs frequent and persnickety maintenance, one imagines.
The filter contains microscopic pores which are small enough to block the chlorine and sodium ions in seawater while allowing through the water molecules.
"The idea is to save Gazoo from the disaster that awaits it in the next five years by using the one resource we do have -- seawater," Abu Assi says.
Y'all also have lots of sewage in poo ponds...
Gazoo, home to 1.8 million Paleostinians, consumes 180 million cubic metres of water per year, half of which is used in agriculture and industry.
- Gazoo could be 'uninhabitable' -
The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... estimates that Gazoo's population will grow by almost another 500,000 people in the next five years,
...those Palestinians do like to exaggerate their baseline population numbers and birth rate, but likely there will be more Gazans then than there are now...
which will push demand to an expected 260 million cubic metres of water annually.
Given Gazoo's current water resources, the territory would become "uninhabitable," according to Robert Turner, director of operations in Gazoo for the U.N. agency for Paleostinian refugees (UNRWA).
Gazoo now depends on groundwater from its coastal aquifer for supplies, but the enclave's water authority says 97 percent of its resources are polluted due to over-extraction and sewage contamination. The World Health Organization has warned of the danger, noting that diarrhoea among children is on the rise.
The U.N. has warned the aquifer could become unusable as early as next year.
Fascinating. So much for the orderly transfer of population.
Abu Assi's machine can treat some 1,000 litres a day -- a drop in the ocean for now, but he and his partner, fellow engineer Ala al-Hindi, say they will not stop there.
Hindi says they are seeking $300 million (274 million euros) to build a water treatment plant that has a much greater capacity.
But given the reality in Gazoo, the two have struggled to raise funds.
"There's always a fear that projects will be destroyed in the next Israeli bombardment," Hindi says.
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1000 litres a day? That is one fricking cubic _meter_!!!!
This is not project for supplying drinking water, this is a _scam_ aimed at getting funds from the Paleo government or more exactly from the western tax payer. Paleos have had sixty seven years to live from their work. Not a cent more.
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I can not understand why they need to create such a high tech (and expensive) solution.
When I was living in the Virgin Islands in the 70's they desalinized seawater by running it through sand. This got enough of the salt out so that the water was drinkable. It was also a lot cheaper than what they are proposing.
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I've seen that done on a larger scale in several places too, Al.
Problem here might be trying to find sand that you would want to use and that's actually sort of clean.
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the Israeli version of this gazoo device was completed earlier this year and provides some 500,000 cubic meters per day
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Gee, I wonder what the Israelis would grow in Gazoo if they were in control. Seems IIRC that there were productive greenhouses and such not that long ago.
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Yes they wer. The Isralis let them behind so the Gazoos would have means of existence. Then the Gazoos set them fore and came tio us asking for money. They even threatened us with acts of terrorism in case we didn't gave it to them.
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.
[Investors Bus.daily] ar On Cops: As two Mississippi police officers are laid to rest, the FBI says the number of cops feloniously killed in the line of duty soared 89% last year. How much can a cop-vilifying president be blamed for the trend?
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Marilyn Mosby, the Baltimore City State Attorney in charge of prosecuting six 
[NEWYORK.CBSLOCAL] A rogue group of subway vandals calling them the 'Subway Conquestors' is allegedly on a mission to attack the rail system.
[ABCNEWS.GO] A Toronto engineer lost his job Tuesday after a social media firestorm was created by a female TV 
[CSMONITOR] The trip suggests the Obama administration sees some hope for re-engaging with Russia, despite tensions over Ukraine.
Reports say South Korea's spy agency has told parliament that the North Korean defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, has been executed. South Korea's Yonhap news agency said that MPs were told Hyon had been killed on April 30 by anti-aircraft fire.
[Dhaka Tribune] Greece emptied an emergency IMF holding account to repay 750 million euros ($839 million) due to the international lender, a Greek central bank official said, avoiding default but underscoring the dire state of the country's finances.
[DAWN] RAWALPINDI: A bridegroom and three wedding guests landed in a police lockup on charges of terrorism after they shot at a police party attempting to stop them from firing in the air in celebration.
