[PJ] Martin Shkreli, the disgraced pharmaceutical executive who pleaded the Fifth and then smirked and fidgeted his way through a congressional hearing yesterday, is a big Democrat donor.
Democrats have castigated Shkreli for hiking the price of a potentially lifesaving drug by more than 5,000 percent. Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, berated Shkreli during the hearing: "I call this money blood money ... coming out of the pockets of hardworking Americans," he said indignantly.
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Berating Shkreli before the committee is not enough. He should have been required to ingest the drug until he slumped to the floor before the committee.
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In the 1960s, the murder closure rate (solved) was about 90%. In 2007 it was about 61%. In some cities, it is only about 1 in 3 that gets solved. Reference.
Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the department plans to announce the promotion of 100 new sergeants and captains on Friday, followed by a round of lieutenant promotions and the addition of new detectives to "keep up with attrition."
[ALMANAR.LB] Zim-bob-we's President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... on Friday declared a "state of disaster" in many rural areas hit by a severe drought, with 26 percent of the population facing food shortages.
"The president has declared a state of disaster in regard to severely affected areas," public works minister Saviour Kasukuwere said in a statement.
He said the "food insecure population" has risen to around 2.44 million, or 26 percent of the population.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Two suspected robbers were beaten to death while another was gravely injured by an angry mob at Ranichara village in Chandina upazila, Comilla in the early hours of Thursday.
The dear departed were identified as Rubel, 25, from the district's Debidwar upazila, and Solaiman, 28, whose address is still unknown, said police sources.
The injured victim, Nayeem, 27, is from Chandina. He is currently undergoing treatment at Chandina upazila health complex, his condition critical.
Talking to the Dhaka Tribune, local UP member Noman Miah said the trio were caught in the act by locals near Ranichara madrasa around 3am and were brutally
beaten.
They were left severely injured for two hours before police went to the spot around 5am following a tip-off and took the three suspects to the upazila health complex.
There, the doctor on-duty pronounced Rubel and Solaiman dead.
The bodies were sent to Comilla Medical College Hospital for a postmortem examination, said Chandina OC Ahmed Nizami, adding that two cases would be filed in this regard.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... an alleged victim of robbery named Harunur Rashid filed a case with Chandina police on Thursday night against unidentified robbers.
Rashid claimed that his family was taking his sister to her in-laws' house in Chandpur district after her wedding in Dhaka on Tuesday night.
When the motorcade reached Chandina around 1:30am, they found the road blocked with tree trunks on Sahapara bridge in Chandina.
Then the robbers attacked them and looted valuables worth around Tk700,000.
On September 8, last year, a suspected robber was killed in mob beating in Mohichail-Gozaria area under Chandina Upazila in the distrcit.
The dear departed was identified as Yunus, 32, son of Salim Uddin.
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[ArabNews]. JEDDAH: Most of the victims of a fire that struck a hotel in Iraq on Friday were Filipinos, the charge d'affaires of the Philippine Embassy in Baghdad said.
“We have just been informed that 14 Filipinos were among the 17 people who died in a fire that struck a hotel in Erbil, capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, this evening,” Elmer Cato posted on Facebook.
“We would like to extend our deepest sympathy to the families of the victims and will do everything we can to bring them home as soon as possible,” he said.
Saman Barzanji, director general of the Erbil health department, was later quoted by Agence France Presse as saying the death toll had risen to 19, including 14 Filipinos, three Iraqis, a Palestinian and another person of unknown nationality.
Dozens more were injured and taken to hospital, said Fakher Harki, the department’s spokesman.
Nawzad Hadi, the governor of Erbil province, said preliminary information indicated that the cause of the fire was an electrical problem in a sauna.
The fire took place at the four-star Capitol Hotel where rooms cost from $100-$240 per night.
The hotel’s website says it has a 740-square-meter (2,580-square-foot) spa that includes saunas and a pool.
Photos and video posted on social media showed dark grey smoke pouring from windows on the top floor of the building.
The Kurdistan region in north Iraq has largely been spared the deadly violence that plagues other parts of the country.
The region is frequently visited by tourists from other areas of Iraq and various countries in the region.
A hotel fire in Sulaimaniyah, another city in Iraqi Kurdistan, killed 30 people in July 2010.
The city’s hospital said people from 12 different nations died in that fire, including some who jumped to their deaths from upper-floor windows while trying to escape the flames
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Pope Francis and the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church will meet in Cuba next week in a historic step to heal the 1,000-year-old schism that divided Christianity between East and West, both churches announced Friday.
The Feb. 12 meeting between Francis and Patriarch Kirill will be the first ever between the leaders of the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Churches, which is the largest in Orthodoxy.
Francis is due to travel to Mexico Feb. 12-18. He will stop in Cuba on the way and meet with Kirill on Feb. 12 at the Havana airport, where they will speak privately for about two hours and then sign a joint declaration, the Vatican said.
"This event has extraordinary importance in the path of ecumenical relations and dialogue among Christian confessions," said the Vatican front man, the Rev. Federico Lombardi.
The two churches split during the Great Schism of 1054 and have remained estranged over a host of issues, including the primacy of the pope and Russian Orthodox accusations that the Catholic Church is poaching converts in former Soviet lands.
Those tensions have prevented previous popes from ever meeting with the Russian patriarch, even though the Vatican has long insisted that it was merely ministering to tiny Catholic communities in largely Orthodox lands.
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[MIL.COM] BLUF: In findings endorsed by Marine Corps Forces Pacific Commander Lt. Gen. John Toolan, the probe determined that, while the Osprey's engine failed due to "excessive intake of sand and dirt," the pilots should have adjusted their plan based on the brownout conditions of the landing, and the squadron and MEU commanders should have been more involved in the selection and survey of the landing zone and the development of a stronger casualty evacuation plan ahead of the tragedy. Blame goes to the pilots and chain of command, not the worthless death box with 30+ years of engineering development and billions of tax payer dollars invested.
[LI] Favored intellectual journal of American feminists, Cosmo (the same rag that started the tampon tax nonsense) bemoaned increased birth rates in their latest expose'.
They argue that restricted funding to Texas-based Planned Parenthoods "effectively defunded" the abortion mill. As a result, few claims for contraceptive measure have been filed and more babies have been born in locals where Planned Parenthood is no more.
Like many other anti-life advocates, the post's author seems to dwell under the presumption that the only way women are able to receive medical attention is via Planned Parenthood. Forget there exist these nifty little things called "doctor's offices," "clinics," and "hospitals," all of which are staffed with doctors whose medical knowledge extends beyond dismembering a baby with a vacuum hose.
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Raising children to become responsible adults demands sacrifice and hard work. This magazine is about youthful self-indulgence. What we have here are competing goals and outcomes which are essentially polar opposites.
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.
[PJ] Martin Shkreli, the disgraced pharmaceutical executive who pleaded the Fifth and then smirked and fidgeted his way through a congressional hearing yesterday, is a big Democrat donor.
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[LI] Favored intellectual journal of American feminists, Cosmo (the same rag that started the tampon tax nonsense) bemoaned increased birth rates in their latest expose'.
