[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Gunfire erupted inside cafeteria at Madison Jr/Sr High School in Madison Township at 11.30am Monday
Two students, Cooper Caffrey, 14, and Cameron Smith, 15, suffered gunshot wounds
Brant Murray and Katherine Doucette, both 14 years old, were injured by flying shrapnel
Police detained the suspected shooter, identified as 14-year-old James Austin Hancock, after he tried to flee
He was charged with two counts of attempted murder; two counts of felonious assault; inducing panic and making terroristic threats
School was placed on lockdown, which has since been lifted
This happened in my part of the world. According to the Cincinnati newspaper, as of 11:00 pm the sheriff said they believe they know why he did it, but aren't yet willing to say. The gun was a .380 caliber handgun, which young Master Hancock carried around with him all morning, until he started shooting students. The wounded are expected to be released from hospital in a few days.
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Gunboy, he is 14 years old. Happened nearby, pity the parents. Hope he goes to jail with that stupid f*ck therapist from Nashville.
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Latest update from the local television station here: http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/butler-county/madison-high-school-shooting-suspect-denies-charges. The lad pled not guilty. Was talking with friends at lunch, one of them mentioned having a problem with another kid, so he shot him. Very strange.
[An Nahar] Suspected Ugandan rebels killed at least two people in an overnight raid on a village in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... , officials and the army said Monday.
"The village of Ntombi in the Beni territory was the scene of an attack by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). Two bodies have just been found, decapitated by machetes," territorial administrator Amisi Kalonda told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"The health centre in the village was completely looted," Kalonda added, reached by phone from Goma, the chief town in the troubled North Kivu province.
Ntombi lies about 40 kilometres (25 miles) northeast of Beni in a part of North Kivu where the rebels from neighbouring Uganda are blamed for attacks and sometimes massacres.
The army gave a higher toll for the attack on Ntombi.
Lieutenant Mak Hazukay, a military front man, said that "these Lions of Islam killed six people with machetes and three people have been declared missing up until now".
The ADF launched a rebellion against Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni more than 20 years ago, but were forced to pull back into the DRC.
Active in the east since 1995, the movement is accused of serious and repeated human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... violations while financing its activities by trafficking in tropical timber.
The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... , which maintains a peacekeeping mission of almost 20,000 troops and police in the vast central African country, accuses the ADF of killing more than 500 civilians in massacres and attacks in Beni territory and the Ituri region since October 2014.
Since last September, ADF forces have been blamed for a series of attacks with automatic weapons on National Highway 4, between Beni and the frontier with Ituri province to the north.
The rebels have targeted civilian vehicles and passersby as well as army outposts.
Like the rest of eastern DRC, the Beni region has been torn by conflict for more than 20 years.
The fighting is fuelled by ethnic differences and claims to land, along with bids for control over valuable natural resources and rivalry between regional powers.
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Is a U.S. website causing the collapse of the Venezuelan economy? That’s what Venezuela’s Central Bank seems to want to prove as it pursues legal action to shutdown www.dolartoday.com. The bank blames the website for runaway inflation and a plummeting currency.
One can understand how a bunch of Venezuelan thug-socialists would dislike the sunlight and attention...
On Monday, Adam Fox, a Squire Patton Boggs attorney who is representing the bank, said his firm plans to submit an amended complaint against the website after the U.S. District Court of Delaware dismissed the initial claim on Friday.
Complain all you like Sparky, publishing information is not a crime (unless Hillary is elected)...
Started in 2010 by three Venezuelan exiles, DolarToday has drawn a huge following and the ire of the government by publishing the black-market bolivar-dollar exchange rate.
The website’s owners say they don’t set the price of anything, that they simply report the exchange rate that’s being offered in Cúcuta, Colombia.
In a country where there are tight currency controls but also a thriving black market for greenbacks, the website has been a frequent government target. Starting in 2013, the administration tried blocking the site, and President Nicolás Maduro has often railed against its owners, calling them “bandits” and economic terrorists who need to be locked away.
In October, the Central Bank took the fight a step further by filing a suit in Delaware, where the website is registered, accusing the owners of racketeering, false advertising, and illicit enrichment. According to the Venezuelan Central Bank, the website has been driving the country’s triple-digit inflation and currency devaluation by faking exchange-rate data.
“Defendants are deliberately misrepresenting and effectively manufacturing a market — a phony, distorted market for the exchange of bolivares into dollars and vice-versa, with the aim of lining their pockets with ill-gotten gains,” the suit reads.
One can't shut down a website, or a publication, with an allegation of mis-use or crime. That's "prior restraint" and the U.S. courts simply won't do that.
In addition, the suit alleges, the defendants “conspired to use a form of cyber-terrorism to wreak, and in fact they have wreaked, economic and reputational harm on the Central Bank by impeding its ability to manage the Republic’s economy and foreign exchange system,” the suit claims.
The website’s owners say they don’t set the price of anything, that they simply report the exchange rate that’s being offered in Cúcuta, Colombia.
“We haven’t done anything wrong, we’re just saying what is true about the exchange rate in the parallel currency market,” said one of the defendants, who asked to go by the pseudonym of Benjamin for fear that the government might hound his family or friends in Venezuela.
Collapsing oil prices have meant Venezuela has fewer greenbacks coming in. And in a nation where almost everything is imported, dollars are in high demand. While the government’s official exchange rate is 10 bolivares to the dollar, and its (theoretically) free-floating SIMADI rate is 205 to the dollar, the black-market rate is running almost five times higher.
On Friday, the U.S. District Court in Delaware handed the defense a short-term victory, saying the Central Bank had not provided sufficient evidence that harm had been done. But the court also gave the bank seven days to amend its complaint.
Ricardo Gonzalez, a defense attorney with Greenberg Traurig in Miami, said the ruling proves that the bank’s clams have no foundation. “The allegation that the mere publication of an exchange rate in the U.S. causes inflation in Venezuela — it’s pretty far-fetched,” he said.
Even so, Fox, who represents the Central Bank, said his firm would be filing the amendment before week’s end, saying it was simply a matter of drawing clearer lines between the harm that DolarToday had caused to the Venezuelan people and the bank itself. “We intend to address that distinction,” he said.
The defendants “have wreaked massive harm on Venezuelans in general and the Central Bank specifically with the misleading and fraudulent manner [they] have represented the exchange rate,” Fox said.
Publishing the truth does have a way of wounding scoundrels...
Benjamin said he fears the lawsuit is part of a broader government strategy.
“We’re worried, because the Venezuelan government knows that we haven’t done anything wrong,” he said. “They’re hoping that through a lawsuit, and the process of discovery, that they can identify our collaborators and shutdown our operations in Venezuela.”
The International Monetary Fund is predicting Venezuela’s inflation could hit 720 percent this year. And the shortage of even basic goods is raising tensions in the country. To complicate matters, the newly emboldened opposition has been floating ideas of how to oust Maduro.
Under the circumstances, the administration needs as many distractions as possible.
“We’re absolutely sure that the government will try to keep finding ways to wear us down,” Benjamin said.
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Didn't the Canadian government try something similar to embarrassing or uncomfortable stuff that got moved to an American site too?
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I am the managing partner of the Los Angeles office of Squire Patton Boggs. As part of my firm's global Litigation Practice, I focus on false advertising and unfair competition, particularly in the food and beverage industry. In addition, I have an extensive background addressing a much broader range of disputes, including intellectual property and other commercial cases, as well as environmental contamination, toxic torts, and catastrophic injuries. My trial experience spans the nation, trying to verdict high-profile, high-stakes controversies. I also maintain an office in New York.
Donetsk rebels are planning to expand their naval forces to operate in the Sea of Azov, according to Ukrainian military journalist Dmitri Tymchuk in a Facebook post.
According to Tymchuk, the rebels already have commandeered several fishing boats and are trying to get the Russian government to give up an unknown number of two of its latest classes of small patrol boats.
The Donetsk naval forces, dubbed the Sea of Azov Flotilla already has five vessels, consisting of five fishing and pleasure boats. This writer has watched YouTube videos from Fall 2014, when a small squad of infantry were being transported aboard a fast rebel watercraft. No guns were seen mounted, and the only heavy weapons aboard were RPGs.
Two of the boats on the Donetsk rebels' Christmas list include Project 12150, a small craft which displaces 23 tons, and Project 12200 which displaces 53 tons.
Project 12150 is deployed within the Russian Federation Border Guard (RFBG) with 14.5mm and 12.7mm machine guns. The RFBG has 56 vessels in its inventory.
Project 12200 is deployed within the RFBG with 2 SAM launchers, one 14.5mm machine gun and an automatic grenade launcher. The RFBG has 22 in its inventory.
According to Tymchuk, the Donetsk naval forces also has a marine unit, the establishment of which is paid for from funds formerly used on the dismantled 9th Separate Motorized Rifle Regiment.
So far in Donetsk rebel official websites, there has been no indication that their naval force is to be expanded.
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 Ukraine by clicking here.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A man stabbed ten children outside a school before killing himself in the southern island province of Hainan, China, on Monday.
State media reports that the victims include six boys and four girls who were attacked outside the elementary school in the city of Haikou.
China Central Television (CCTV) reported on its microblog the children were taken to hospital, with two being treated for serious injuries that were not life threatening.
Police were investigating what they described as a "vicious criminal case brought on by extreme actions," the brief report said.
Violent crime is rare in China compared with many other countries, but there have been a series of knife and axe attacks in recent years, many targeting children.
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Another person totally screwed over by society. Don't hate these men, it's society who hates them.
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Surprise, Surprise, SGT. CARTER, ONCE AGAIN NONE OF THE LEFTIES IN EITHER CHINA OR THE US-WEST IS CALLING FOR "KNIFE/BLADE CONTROL" IN THE NAME OF THE DEAD-N-INJURED KIDDIES.
NOT EVEN IFF "10" WERE "100" OR MORE.
D *** NG IT, PEOPLE, BE QUIET, WE'RE TRYING TO HEAR THE CRICKETS OVER HERE ... ... ... OH, WAIT!
Japan's Defense Ministry has conducted a test-run of its first prototype stealth aircraft. The test took place at Nagoya Airport in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Wednesday.
Defense Minister Gen Nakatani observed the trial from a Self-Defense Force base adjacent to the airport. The plane sped down the runway for about 500 meters at a speed of about 100 kilometers per hour.
Nakatani told reporters after the test that the project appears to be moving ahead smoothly. He said he has high hopes for the development of Japanese fighter jets and technological innovation in the aviation industry.
More than 200 Japanese companies have been working on the stealth prototype for 7 years.
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7 years, and the wheels work?
Did Josh Earnest release this?
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It is amazing what engineers can do when they don't have to throw every fucking kitchen sink, urinal and drinking fountain in the fucking pentagon in a design.
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Sure this 'stealth' aircraft isn't the fabled Mitsubishi Regional Jet? that was supposed to be in service 4 years ago and has only just started test flights. And then grounded after the first flight for fuselage and landing gear 'enhancements.'
[DAWN] LAHORE: A sessions court on Monday sentenced two brothers, Ahsan and Zeeshan Butt, to death twice for killing their sister and her husband over 'honour' six years ago.
Judge Naveed Iqbal also imposed a fine of Rs one million each on the convicted men.
The two brothers had rubbed out their sister, Saba, and her husband, Shafiq, for marrying out of their own will six years ago.
The couple, who were residents of Yaki Gate area of Lahore's walled city, had married of their free will in 2009 and had moved away. But Ahsan and Zeeshan invited them over for a meal and rubbed out the couple only a few months after their marriage.
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[Mail] A Louisiana police captain who taunted members of a local gang in a tough-talking video has now resigned.
Clay Higgins, based in St Landry Parish, addressed seven wanted men accused of being gang members in the clip and told them they would be hunted and tracked. He announced he had chosen to leave his job during a news conference on Monday. 'I wasn't forced to resign, the sheriff didn't ask for my resignation. But I turned in my badge as a matter of conscience,' he said.
Higgins then said he had decided to resign because sheriff Bobby Guidroz had given him orders he could not follow.
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Higgins then said he had decided to resign because sheriff Bobby Guidroz had given him orders he could not follow.
One might suspect the Sheriff's 'order' was likely an instruction that Captain Higgins provide a public apology to the thugs and their families. The ACLU wins and we lose a fine policeman.
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Yeah, sounds like somebody called the sheriff, probably multiple parties, like Hollywood complaining that their pretty action movie boys look bad in comparison to his video.
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.
