[WASHINGTONTIMES] CNN anchor Fredricka Whitfield appears to have misspoken while referring to the gunman who opened fire on the Dallas Police headquarters as “courageous and brave.”
Per Legal Insurrection, she sorta acknowledged that her choice of words was poor, but she didn't apologize (LI has video).
“It was very courageous and brave, if not crazy as well, to open fire on the police headquarters, and now you have this scene, this standoff. So you believe these are the hallmarks of more than one person’s involvement,” Ms. Whitfield said while speaking with CNN legal analyst Philip Holloway, Mediaite reported.
Early Saturday morning a lone gunman armed with a rifle and a shotgun opened fire on officers outside the police headquarters. The gunman was eventually shot by a police sniper after an hours-long standoff.
No one was injured in the standoff other than the gunman, who was later confirmed dead by police.
“First off I want to say that I think the Dallas police department did an excellent job handling this situation and were very fortunate that no one other than the suspect was injured,” Mr. Holloway said, adding that he did believe there was evidence that the gunman had an accomplice who may have helped plan the attack, Mediaite reported.
Posted by: Fred ||
06/15/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[7 views]
Top|| File under:
[NYTIMES] From the steps of her New Bethlehem Baptist Church, the Rev. Lisa Weah looked down the block to the open-air drug market outside the bodega on the corner a few hundred feet away.
The traffic there had been slowing until the chaos that followed the death of Freddie Gray on April 19, after he was injured in police custody. Now it is back full-bore, and the police are often nowhere to be seen.
A month and a half after six officers were charged in Mr. Gray’s death, policing has dwindled in some of Baltimore’s most dangerous neighborhoods, and murders have risen to levels not seen in four decades. The totals include a 29-year-old man fatally shot on this drug corner last month. Police union officials say that officers are still coming to work, but that some feel a newfound reluctance and are stepping back, questioning whether they will be prosecuted for actions they take on the job.
Around the nation, communities and police departments are struggling to adapt to an era of heightened scrutiny, when every stop can be recorded on a cellphone. But residents, clergy members and neighborhood leaders say the past six weeks have made another reality clear: that as much as some officers regularly humiliated and infuriated many who live here, angering gang members and solid citizens alike, the solution has to be better policing, not a diminished police presence.
Posted by: Fred ||
06/15/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
As designed by Obams, Holder, and the Racist twins Sharpton and Jackson.
#3
probably a lot of the murders in June in Balt were between drug gangs fighting over rights to the proceeds from the stuff looted from the CVS
Posted by: lord garth ||
06/15/2015 7:56 Comments ||
Top||
#4
The military (uniform) tradition is to take and punish one or two of the mutineers. The next step is to fire the chain of command and replace it. In, this case, the civilians who operate the administration above the police.
#7
Procopius, the alternative military tradition, if you don't know the guilty party, is to punish everyone and let them really punish the guilty party.
#8
Cuase, meet effect. Have it your way protesters in Baltimore - you dont want police there, you dont get police there. Ought to just build a wall around those neighborhoods and mark them as "policve free zones". Good luck.
Berlin -- An escaped circus elephant attacked and killed a 65-year-old German man as he was taking his usual morning walk on Saturday, police said.
So it's true, too much exercise really can kill you...
"Ach! Wo sind meine Lederhosen?"
The female elephant, named Baby, crossed paths with the man around 5:30 am (0330 GMT) and proceeded to attack him as he walked in the town of Buchen in southwest Germany.
"You want a piece of me? DO YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME???"
"Ach! Wo ist mein Elefantenschützengeboomenwaffen?"
An employee from the nearby circus, from which Baby had escaped, was able to calm the elephant and coax her back to the tent.
"It's okay, Baby, that mean old man won't hurt you anymore, c'mon Baby, let's go home now."
"Ach! Ich bin ungetan!"
Animal rights group Peta, cited by German news agency DPA, said Baby had previously injured three other people including a child. "Ach! Wo ist mein Kind?...Unter den Elefanten?... Nein! Nein!... Ach! Oh, wo ist mir!""
PETA of course disagreed with the subsequent locking of Baby's cage...
Police have opened an inquiry.
"Anyone see who dunnit?"
Posted by: Steve White ||
06/15/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
When there is an elephant with your name on it, there's nothing you can do.
#3
Y'all killing me. Herewith, a few lines written in commemoration of the late tragedy in Nepal (er, the other late tragedy), set aside at the time as unworthy, published now in humble submission to the manifest will of Fate or Fred:
"Oh! Namaste! How do you do?
I'm sorry I trampled on you!
The Purkinje effect
Makes red hard to detect;
In twilight all Comrades look blue."
#6
Not to be confused with an Sd. Kfz. 184, aka Elefant, of which a 'domesticated' version resides at the U.S. Army Ordnance Museum. Warning - one can be flattened as well if not careful around said same.
For a map, click here. You can enlarge the map, if you open it separately.
By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
Specific instances of ceasefire violations by both rebel and Ukrainian forces in Donetsk have doubled since Friday, leading the chief negotiator for Donetsk, Denis Pusilin to remark that the Donbas region is on the "verge of a great new war", according to Russian language news reports.
Pusilin said that the new phase of the war could begin "in a matter of hours", according to a news report which appeared in rustoday.info.
However, the latest reports in rebel media are that as of Sunday night, artillery shelling stopped at least in Donetsk city.
The artillery attacks have been concentrated in three areas in western Donetsk: Donetsk city, Gorlovka, which is north of Donetsk city, and in Shirokino, which is on the coast of the Sea of Azov.
Since Friday night almost 300 instances of shootings took place including artillery, crew served weapons and small arms fire in Donetsk, raising fears on the rebels' side that the Ukrainians may be about to force the issue.
Since the conclusion of the rebel Debaltsevo defensive operation in late February, rebel media have been claiming that Ukraine was about to launch a major offensive, although those claims were not accompanied with the kind of artillery fire and gunfire they are now receiving -- or delivering.
Also, since the end of February weather has played some role as to when an offensive could begin. Now, with midsummer about to begin, fears of a renewed offensive by the Ukrainians are becoming acute.
Most revealing since the conclusion of the rebel seizure of Marinka almost two weeks ago, is the fact that Ukrainian military forces have brought back their heavy artillery to be used against rebel positions, and have used them on counterattacks on rebel forces in Marinka. Ukrainian media say, for the first time since last February, that rebels have been using heavy artillery, which rebel media have denied.
Lt. Colonel Eduard Basurin, spokesman for the Donetsk ministry of defense said Sunday that Ukrainians fired on rebel positions 185 times using tank gunfire, small arms fire, and 82mm and 120mm mortar fire. The amount of shooting taking place was double the previous day and triple the average daily ceasefire violations.
Ukrainian media said that rebels fired on Ukrainian positions a total of 109 times.
Donetsk
Artillery strikes hit targets on both sides of the line in western sectors of Donetsk city, according to Ukrainian and rebel Russian language reports.
Rebel media reported two days ago that Ukrainian artillery were hitting in Spartak and on the airport grounds in conjunction with Ukrainian plans to retake the airport. It appears now that those artillery attacks continue. Neither side is reporting casualties, except official rebel media are reporting civilian dead and wounded.
Gunfights have been taking place In nearby Ukrainian held Avdievka and in adjacent Peski, which is split between the combatants.
According to a news report which appeared in korrespondent.net, rebel 125mm tank guns, 122mm artillery and 120mm mortars fired on targets on Opytnoye, which is Ukrainian held and adjacent to Avdievka, specifically on apartment buildings in the town.
According to rebel media, Ukrainian artillery have been hitting targets in Kievskiy, Kuibyshevskiy, and Petrovsky districts in western Donetsk city.
Colonel Basurin went to some lengths to describe how Ukrainian artillery directed onto the Kievskiy district has been fired by artillery belonging to the Ukrainian 93rd Independent Mechanized Rifle Brigade under the command of Colonel Oleg Mikats.
Colonel Mikats was the Ukrainian officer captured back in February in the immediate Ukrainian counterattack which sought to retake the airport. He was shown in a youtube.com video in the company of the rebel commander of Somaliya Battalion, Mikail Tolstoy, being manhandled and apparently beaten by Tolstoy and his troops, and having a handgun drawn on him by Tolstoy.
Mikats was released from imprisonment in May.
Marinka
In Marinka, both sides claim to have driven back infantry attacks in the town, which is said to be split between rebel and Ukrainian forces.
A report in tsensor.net said that rebel forces used 120mm mortar and 122mm artillery fire on Ukrainian positions, and had driven back a two rifle company (about 250 effectives) sized attack on their positions Saturday night.
According to data supplied by Igor Strelkov's VKontakte page, rebel media said, referring to the same time frame, that a Ukrainian attack was also driven back by rebel forces holding their half of the town.
The rebel rifle unit holding the town has been identified as the "Pyatnashka" Brigade, a unit of mixed nationalities. A later report said that a Ukrainian rifle unit attempted to attack the brigade headquarters under the fire of 82mm mortars and small arms, but rebel counterfire stopped the Ukrainians from penetrating further into rebel held positions.
In all the battle lasted two hours, ultimately with little shift in the lines.
Ukrainian military journalist Dmitri Tymchuk said that rebel forces have been using tanks in pairs to fire on Ukrainian positions in Marinka. He also said that rebel 122mm and 152mm artillery being fired from the Petrovskiy district of Donetsk have been striking in Marinka.
Shirokino
Artillery fire into rebel held Shirokino continued, as it has since last February, according to rebel and Ukrainian media. A report in korrespondent.net said that rebel forces used 122mm artillery, heavy mortar, crew served weapons and small arms fire on Ukrainian positions in the town.
A separate report in korrespondent.net said that an unidentified Russian soldier was captured in the village and is being held by members of the Right Sector political movement. Right Sector staffs many volunteer units which operate in conjunction with Ukrainian Army operations.
According to the report, the soldier had military ID and a Donetsk passport.
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.
Goodness. Either everybody's doing it, or somebody is casting a very broad net.
[AnNahar] A computer in German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... 's legislative office was hit by a cyberattack that targeted the country's lower house of parliament in May, the Bild newspaper reported on Sunday.
The daily, which did not cite its sources, said the cyberattack was broader and greater than originally anticipated and the Bundestag struggled to control it.
The attack "infected" one of the computers in Merkel's Bundestag office. Bild said the computer was one of the first on which the Trojan Horse-style attack was discovered.
According to the newspaper, the discovery was made on Friday, with officials finding the Trojan Horse software on five computers in the Bundestag.
A front man for Merkel's conservative CDU bloc told the newspaper he could "not confirm nor deny" the report.
It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the cyberattack.
Merkel's official website, as well as those of the government and the Bundestag, were blocked in January in an online attack claimed by a pro-Russian group.
[DAWN] Given the dynamic economic growth of Asia and the Pacific region over the past decade, a new pattern is emerging -- about one out of every three migrants is finding working opportunities within the region, and Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore are becoming major sources of migrant employment, reveals a new report by the World Bank (WB) and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Malaysia and Thailand are now "net importers" of labour, while India and Pakistain are also starting to attract millions of foreign workers, and this trend is expected to grow in the coming decade, findings of a series of studies commissioned by IFAD and the World Bank say.
The report released ahead of the 'International Day of Family Remittances', being observed for the first time on June 16, says for the near term most Asian remittance senders will continue to seek work in the traditional destination countries of Australia, the Gulf region, North America, the Russian Federation and Western Europe.
The remittances day sponsored by IFAD, is to recognise the significant financial contribution migrant workers to their families back home.
It will also encourage them to do more to maximise the impact of these funds in the developing world.
Posted by: Fred ||
06/15/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan
Likud MK and Knesset Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Committee chairman Abraham Naguise challenged the decision made by Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein to close the case against a police officer filmed attacking a soldier of Ethiopian descent. He called out to government officials on Monday to explain Weinstein's decision, and urged the attorney-general to reconsider pressing charges.
Naguise, who is of Ethopian descent, explained in his statement that Weinstein's decision "does not correspond to the images people see on the screen."
#3
Was supposed to bring it in this week, but now it looks like we might have to do it Wizard of Oz style or float it in, with a tropical disturbance predicted to run through the area.
#6
They should just attach the new one next to the old one until they are certain the patient will live. That's what they did to Rosie Greer and it worked out well. Otherwise put the head in a glass container and save it for the future(ama).
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.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] CNN anchor Fredricka Whitfield appears to have misspoken while referring to the gunman who opened fire on the Dallas Police headquarters as “courageous and brave.”
Berlin -- An escaped circus elephant attacked and killed a 65-year-old German man as he was taking his usual morning walk on Saturday, police said.
