[WSJ] The nation's two-decades-long crime decline may be over. Gun violence in particular is spiraling upward in cities across America. In Baltimore, the most pressing question every morning is how many people were shot the previous night. Gun violence is up more than 60% compared with this time last year, according to Baltimore police, with 32 shootings over Memorial Day weekend. May has been the most violent month the city has seen in 15 years.
In Milwaukee, homicides were up 180% by May 17 over the same period the previous year. Through April, shootings in St. Louis were up 39%, robberies 43%, and homicides 25%. "Crime is the worst I've ever seen it," said St. Louis Alderman Joe Vacarro at a May 7 City Hall hearing.
Murders in Atlanta were up 32% as of mid-May. Shootings in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
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There is no perfect. There is, however, anarchy. Little Somalias coming in your very near future.
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This is how the current DoJ and their urban foot soldiers are essentially establishing "banlieus" here in the US, with the exact same results as in Europe.
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g(r) .. remind me not to be drinking coffee when reading your replies...stings my nose when I spray it out laughing...obviously channeling the Harfster
[The Atlantic] Kalaupapa, Hawaii, is a former leprosy colony that's still home to several of the people who were exiled there through the 1960s. Once they all pass away, the federal government wants to open up the isolated peninsula to tourism. But at what cost?
Not so long ago, people in Hawaii who were diagnosed with leprosy were exiled to an isolated peninsula attached to one of the tiniest and least-populated islands. Details on the history of the colony--known as Kalaupapa--for leprosy patients are murky: Fewer than 1,000 of the tombstones than span across the village's various cemeteries are marked, many of them having succumbed to weather damage or invasive vegetation. A few have been nearly devoured by trees. But records suggest that at least 8,000 individuals were forcibly removed from their families and relocated to Kalaupapa over a century starting in the 1860s. Almost all of them were Native Hawaiian.
Sixteen of those patients, ages 73 to 92, are still alive. They include six who remain in Kalaupapa voluntarily as full-time residents, even though the quarantine was lifted in 1969--a decade after Hawaii became a state and more than two decades after drugs were developed to treat leprosy, today known as Hansen's disease. The experience of being exiled was traumatic, as was the heartbreak of abandonment, for both the patients themselves and their family members. Kalaupapa is secluded by towering, treacherous sea cliffs from the rest of Molokai--an island with zero traffic lights that takes pride in its rural seclusion--and accessing it to this day remains difficult. Tourists typically arrive via mule. So why didn't every remaining patient embrace the new freedom? Why didn't everyone reconnect with loved ones and revel in the conveniences of civilization?
Many of Kalaupapa's patients forged paradoxical bonds with their isolated world. Many couldn't bear to leave it. It was "the counterintuitive twinning of loneliness and community," wrote The New York Times in 2008. "All that dying and all of that living."
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An evil so loathsome and larval...
A dome carved of serpentine marble...
The Hansen's Museum?
Heck no! If you've seen him,
You know I'm just talkin' 'bout Carville.
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I haven't been commenting much recently, Zenobia F., but I continue to treasure your poetry in all its forms. You are clever, widely knowledgeable, and deeply funny in surprising ways. Thank you.
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TW, I'm almost speechless. That's probably the nicest thing ever said about me by anyone who wasn't my mom. Way nicer than I deserve (trust me!) but thanks, and back at ya, in spades.
The Department of Justice is concentrating on "far-right" groups in a new study of social media usage aimed at combatting violent extremism. Because nothing is more extreme than disagreeing with teh 0ne.
The Justice Department's National Institute of Justice (NIJ) A contradiction in terms
awarded Michigan State University $585,719 for the study, which was praised by Eric Holder, the former attorney general, earlier this year.
"There is currently limited knowledge of the role of technology and computer mediated communications (CMCs), such as Facebook and Twitter, in the dissemination of messages that promote extremist agendas and radicalize individuals to violence," according to the NIJ grant. "The proposed study will address this gap through a series of qualitative and quantitative analyses of posts from various forms of CMC used by members of both the far-right and Islamic extremist movements." Far right groups are as bad as ISIS. According to the government. According to the government, far right groups are worse...
The study draws more upon right-wing forums than upon the corners of the web inhabited by Islamist extremists.
"We will collect posts made in four active forums used by members of the far-right and three from the Islamic Extremist community, as well as posts made in Facebook, LiveJournal, Twitter, YouTube, and Pastebin accounts used by members of each movement," the grant said.
"The findings will be used to document both the prevalence and variation in the ideological content of posts from members of each movement," the grant continued. "In addition, we will assess the value of these messages in the social status of the individual posting the message and the function of radical messages in the larger on-line identity of participants in extremist communities generally."
The project will also "identify the hidden networks of individuals who engage in extremist movements based on geographic location and ideological similarities." Extremist Movement aka people that disagree with us
The results will be used for a public webinar, and for presentations for counterterrorism experts in the United States. The "results" will also be shared with Lois Lerner's replacement at the IRS who is acting as our liaison and punitive arm.
Holder highlighted the study in remarks this February at the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, as an example of the new methods the Justice Department is using to combat terrorist threats. Holder said the study will "help us develop more effective techniques and partnerships for counter-messaging."
While the grant does not name the "far-right" groups that would be examined, other federal agencies have devoted their energy to the sovereign citizen movement.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a report on the movement, whose members believe that U.S. laws do not apply to them, just as the White House held its summit on violent extremism. The administration did not use the phrase "Islamist extremism" at the summit.
DHS stirred controversy in 2009 when it issued a report on right-wing extremism, which included veterans returning from combat as a potential terrorist threat.
The Justice Department and Michigan State University did not return requests for comment by press time.
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I'm sure the National socialist workers party also created lists of so-called Jewish extremists who disagreed with them (like bankers, businessmen, craftsmen, merchants, etc...) and whom to make scapegoats to be sent first to the camps - much like this study. Just used different tools.
You have to wonder if Rantburg is on the list. I know it punches above it's weight but to make the list would be quite a badge.
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CF - Rantburg IS the list. All else is just padding.
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MSU started life as an agricultural school; both parental units as well as Spousal unit are graduates; but now it looks like it just processes Bull sh!t
Heavy fighting broke out between Somali Regional State of Ethiopia forces and pastoralists in small towns in central Somalia, leaving At least 10 people dead and injured 10 others. The battle erupted after forces from Somali Regional State of Ethiopia invaded in small towns in central Somalia and clashed with pastoralists over pasturelands and domestic animals.
A local resident told Shabelle Media in Mogadishu that heavily Somalia-Ethiopian forces clashed with pastoralists in small towns border with Ethiopia, adding that 10 died in the battle. Tension mounts between both warring sides have been running high. All injured people are reported to have been rushed to Guriel hospital in central Somalia’s Galgadud region.
Neither Somalia government nor Somali Regional State of Ethiopia officials have not yet commented on the battle.
At least 35 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in a week of festivities in villages near Somalia's border with Æthiopia, officials and traditional elders said Sunday.
The sources said the festivities involved Somali clan militia and members of the Liyu police, an Æthiopian paramilitary unit operating in Æthiopia's ethnic Somali region.
"The Liyu Police Unit launched an attack on innocent civilians. They are attacking villagers and killing people who keep livestock," Hussein Weheliye Irfo, the governor of the Galgadud region in central Somalia, told news hounds.
Sources in the region said fighting started a week ago and escalated on Friday.
It was not apparently clear what sparked the festivities, which are separate from ongoing battles between African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... troops and al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab forces of Evil in the far south of the country. Several sources said the fighting may surround allegations that a Liyu police member had raped a local woman.
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[Biznuus] Unbeknown to most people, the public has until 30th May 2015 (the end of this week) to comment on a bill that seeks to vest all agricultural land in the State as 'custodian' for the people of South Africa. 'Custodianship' has a pleasant ring to it. Though much slower and ponderous, U.S. Department of Agriculture regulatory fiat accomplishes essentially the same ends.
This provision echoes the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA) of 2002, under which all mineral resources have effectively been expropriated without compensation.
The new measure is called the Preservation and Development of Agricultural Land Framework Bill of 2015 (the Bill). It was gazetted in mid-March this year for public comment by 30th May, and has generally passed unnoticed by the media. Things seem to go 'unnoticed' very easily when the media is gov't controlled. This bill contains a key clause stating: 'Agricultural land is the common heritage of all the people of South Africa and the Department [of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries] is the custodian thereof for the benefit of all South Africans.'
This provision is remarkably similar to a clause in the MPRDA, which says that 'mineral resources are the common heritage of all the people of South Africa and the State is the custodian thereof for the benefit of all South Africans'.
The meaning of this MPRDA provision came before the courts in the Agri SA case. Here, the key question was whether expropriation had occurred when an unused old-order mining right 'ceased to exist' under the MPRDA and became vested in the State as the custodian of all mineral resources. You didn't create that farm or those minerals, someone else did that for you.
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The problems begin when the small farmer, rancher, or miner decides "if I'm not going to profit from this, why am I doing the work".
And decides to stop. At which point you get out all the old documents, cross out the word slave, and write in 'client'. There. All fixed.
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is the custodian thereof for the benefit of all South Africans.'
Well, no, not really. It is to benefit the rulers of the politburo. Sounds like the basis for a good old fashioned Soviet 5 year plan is coming.
Look up the meaning of "free good" and what that does to the quality of life and environment. Good times are a comin'............not.
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Unbeknown to most people, the public has until 30th May 2015 (the end of this week) to comment on a bill that seeks to vest all agricultural land in the State as 'custodian' for the people of South Africa.
...and here in the States, the EPA claims all rights to any water (which probably includes that which you extrude from your personal body parts).
[DAWN] LAHORE: A woman was rubbed out allegedly by her rivals in Essa Nagri, Shadbagh, on Saturday.
Police said Fehmeda, 32, was asleep when Mubashir, Bhoola, Parvaiz and Raheem entered her house after scaling the wall and asked her about her brother and husband. On refusal, they shot her dead and fled.
Police said the attackers and the victims were relatives and were having a rivalry over the killing of a man of the accused family.
Police said they killed the woman for Dire Revenge as victim's family had killed their man some years back.
The police shifted the body to the city morgue for an appointment with Dr. Quincy, started the paperwork but haven't done much else and started investigation.
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[DAWN] PESHAWAR: At least 55 people, including two women, were maimed in scuffles among supporters of candidates at various polling stations in the provincial metropolis during the local government elections on Saturday.
Police personnel deputed at the polling stations mostly remained spectators to the mismanagement and violation of queue by voters, which also caused delay in start of the polling process. Sources said that 30 injured were brought to the Lady Reading Hospital and another 25 to the Khyber Teaching Hospital.
During visits to different polling stations by this correspondent, the candidates and their supporters complained of insufficient security arrangements which led to festivities among the people. The festivities took place at Kohat Road, Kakshaal, Bakhshi Pul, Ghari Atta Mohammad, Aslam Dheri, Beri Bagh, Shagi Hindkian, Bashirabad, Baghbanan, Umeedabad, Warsak Road, Hussainabad, Nauthia, Tarnab, Sufaid Dheri, etc.
In Faqirabad area, the workers of Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... and Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... clashed. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... the army personnel were called in who dispersed them by firing in the air. No casualty was reported.
The situation in the outskirts of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. remained tense due to lack of sufficient security arrangements. A police official told this correspondent that the required number of coppers was not deputed at the polling stations and thus the existing staff could not resist the pressure of supporters of the candidates.
According to officials and voters, the election process was stopped in some areas for the only reason that sufficient security personnel were not available to defuse the political pressure on the polling staff.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Parliamentarians, government officials, trade unionists, police and civil society members at a policy dialogue on Saturday called for amendments to the Bonded Labour Abolition Act, 1992 by incorporating harsh punishment to those involved in slavery of labourers. Gonna free the serfs, are they? Watch the hands not the lips.
The audience was given a proposed draft of amendments to the law that the speakers stressed be made in form of a bill and tabled before the Sindh Assembly for approval.
The programme was organised by the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (Sparc) at a hotel.
Panellists, many of them themselves parliamentarians, were of the opinion that strict punishment should be awarded to those who were involved in slavery of labour.
Dr Sikandar Mandhro, minister for parliament affairs, said brick kilns and the agriculture sector in Pakistain provided employment to 45 per cent of the total workforce but the same sector was also plagued with the worst slavery practices.
He said feudalism was a mindset that prevailed not just in rural areas but also in urban centres. "It is a mindset and it will come to an end slowly and gradually," he said.
Dr Mandhro agreed to the notion that the law against bonded labour should be strict so that the offenders should not easily get remedies from courts. He showed his willingness to move this bill in the assembly.
Dr Seema Zia, a Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... politician, said it was alarming that only four cases were registered in the country under the bonded labour law in the past 22 years, and even those offenders might have got bail from courts.
She said Pakistain was a signatory to many international treaties but bonded labour still existed unchallenged.
Sorath Thebo, a politician of the Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz, said India was progressing, as there was no more feudalism and the same path could bring prosperity to the country.
Haji Shafi Mohammad Jamote, another PML-N politician, said there should be a change in the definition of bonded labour, to restrain police from registering cases against fishermen whose children helped them on boats.
Earlier, Hyderabad DIG Sanaullah Abbasi, who was a keynote speaker, presented the draft of proposed amendments to the law for dialogue.
The officer said society was conservative to its core and SHOs generally did not register cases relating to bonded labour, which had to be changed with rigorous laws. He recommended six-year imprisonment for the coppers who refused to register cases.
In the amended law, he said the burden of proof would be on the landlord, as bonded labourers were a vulnerable element. Besides, if any investigative officer was found involved in a deliberately flawed investigation and weak prosecution, he would be imprisoned for three years. He suggested to the audience that such cases be prosecuted in sessions courts where judges were made heads of the vigilance committees.
Besides labour department officials, Iqbal Detho of Save the Children, Karamat Ali of the Pakistain Institute of Labour Education and Research and Kashif Bajeer and Zahid Ahmed Thebo of Sparc also spoke.
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[DAWN] The largest local government elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s history were held on Saturday amid sporadic incidents of violence, mismanagement and complicated balloting that left voters confused. The violence claimed five lives in Charsadda.
Chief Minister Pervez Khattak held the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) responsible for brawls, violence and chaotic situation at polling stations.
“The government had handed over police and security forces to the Election Commission to ensure peaceful elections,” he said while talking to reporters after casting his vote in his native constituency in Nowshera.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: A young resident of Orangi Town on Saturday became the sixth victim of the deadly Naegleria fowleri, commonly known as the 'brain-eating' amoeba, this year in Sindh, officials said.
Mohammad Muallim, 22, who had been under treatment at the Civil Hospital 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... (CHK) for the past two days, was the fifth patient to have died from the disease in May, the officials added.
The officials also confirmed to Dawn the presence of another young patient suffering from the disease in a government health facility.
The lethal amoeba, which survives on the bacteria in warm waters and enters the human brain through nasal cavity and eats up its tissues, could only be eliminated through proper chlorination or boiling of water.
The officials said that Muallim, who resided in Orangi Town's MPR Colony, had been brought to the CHK two days ago in a critical condition and admitted to the medical intensive care unit. He died at the hospital after falling into a coma on Saturday, they said.
"The patient had a history of three days of severe headache, nausea and irritability," said Karachi health director Dr Zafar Ejaz while speaking to Dawn.
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The brain-eating bug of Karachi,
An earworm the pious find catchy,
Is known by its symptoms --
The worst-stricken victims
Will wail like a mournful Apache.
[DAWN] SAHIWAL: The body of a 14-year-old seminary student was found at the central graveyard of Chichawatni on Saturday.
City police said the boy was molested and strangled to death.
The dear departed, of Ghafoor Town, had learnt the Holy Koran by heart from seminary Azizul Uloom. He used to visit the seminary daily for repeating the lessons. When he did not return home on Friday evening, his mother contacted the seminary only to learn that he was absent from the class on Friday.
His family and neighbours launched a search to find him. On Saturday, they learned that his body was lying in the graveyard.
City police said the initial postmortem showed that the boy was molested and later strangle to death.
Sources in the district police officer said Chichawati police had tossed in the clink Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! two suspects.
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[DAWN] ESHAWAR: Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... (ANP) central general secretary Mian Iftikhar Hussain was enjugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! on Sunday after the killing of a Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) activist in Pabbi area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... 's Nowshera district.
A clash between activists of ANP and PTI occured outside near residence of Mian Iftikhar Hussain in Pabbi area after the Saturday night announcement of the area's results of the Local Government polls held on Saturday.
A PTI activist, identified as Habibullah, died of gunshot wounds suffered during the clash. Paperwork was started but nothing else was done against the veteran ANP leader and his guards on various charges including murder and attempted murder over the complaint of the dear departed's father.
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[AlAhram] In early April, Al-Azhar filed a complaint against the presenter's controversial show on Islam
An Egyptian misdemeanors court late Saturday sentenced TV presenter Islam El-Beheiry to five years in jail on charges of "blasphemy" over a controversial show he presents about Islam.
The case was filed by lawyer Mohammed Abdel Salam.
Previously broadcast on private TV channel Al-Qahera W Al-Nas, El-Beheiry's show With Islam has tackled controversial issues such as punishment for apostasy, the debate on early marriage, and different interpretations of the Hadith, the sayings and teachings of Islam's Prophet Muhammed.
The ruling could be appealed in front of the Cairo Court of Appeal.
In early April, Al-Azhar, the country's leading Sunni Islam institute, filed an official complaint against El-Beheiry's show with the Free Media Zone, the state department in charge of managing cable TV channel contracts.
Effat Abdel-Azim, the head of the Free Media Zone, confirmed receiving the complaint, along with CDs allegedly showing that El-Beheiry had insulted the fundamentals of Islam.
The presenter wrote on his Facebook page on 22 April that the programme had been suspended due to "disputes with the channel."
A Facebook post by a Muslim chaplain about being denied an unopened can of soda because of what she said was discrimination on a United Airlines flight has sparked a flurry outrage on social media.
"I am in tears of humiliation," Tahera Ahmad, wrote on Facebook Friday, describing a situation in which she requested an unopened can of Diet Coke during a flight for hygienic reasons, but was told by a flight attendant that it was against policy.
Ahmad noticed that the same attendant had given a man an unopened can of beer, and questioned the inconsistency, accusing the flight attendant of discrimination, she wrote on Facebook. "'We are unauthorized to give unopened cans to people because they may use it as a weapon on the plane'" Ahmad said the flight attendant responded.
The flight attendant opened the can of beer, telling the man it was so he didn't use it as a weapon, and the whole scene left Ahmad flabbergasted. She looked around for support from her fellow passengers, but instead said most were quiet and one man lashed out at her, saying, "'you Moslem (sic), you need to shut the f--k up.'" She said he continued: "'Yes, you know you would use it as a weapon, so shut the f--k up.'"
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It's been ages since I flew. However, I still recall the practice of not giving a passenger a unopened beverage can way back in the 80s. It was SOP back then.
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.
The Department of Justice is concentrating on "far-right" groups in a new study of social media usage aimed at combatting violent extremism.
[DAWN] KARACHI: Parliamentarians, government officials, trade unionists, police and civil society members at a policy dialogue on Saturday called for amendments to the Bonded Labour Abolition Act, 1992 by incorporating harsh punishment to those involved in slavery of labourers.
[DAWN] The largest local government elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s history were held on Saturday amid sporadic incidents of violence, mismanagement and complicated balloting that left voters confused. The violence claimed five lives in Charsadda.
[DAWN] KARACHI: A young resident of Orangi Town on Saturday became the sixth victim of the deadly Naegleria fowleri, commonly known as the 'brain-eating' amoeba, this year in Sindh, officials said.
[DAWN] SAHIWAL: The body of a 14-year-old seminary student was found at the central graveyard of Chichawatni on Saturday.
[DAWN] ESHAWAR: 
