(Reuters) - Atlanta rapper Bankroll Fresh, whose real name was Trentavious White, was shot dead outside a recording studio on Friday night, the Fulton County Medical Examiner's office said on Saturday.
White, 28, was shot just after 11 p.m. outside Street Execs Studios in north Atlanta, a spokeswoman at the medical examiner's office said.
The Atlanta Police Department did not confirm the identity of the gunshot victim, but said he was pronounced dead at the Hughes Spalding hospital after being taken there in an unknown vehicle. A large crowd of people fled the scene of the shooting when police arrived, and video evidence has been recovered, the police said in a brief statement.
The hip-hop artist was an associate of well-known Atlanta rapper 2 Chainz, who signed Bankroll Fresh to his independent record label in 2015, according to Popcorn entertainment website. His best-known song was "Hot Boy" from a 2014 mix-tape "Life of a Hotboy".
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Trentavious White wasn't frightened.
A gentleman always, he brightened
And flashed a wry smile
At the cap-busting child
Whom his streetwise advice had enlightened.
Nancy Reagan has died in her home in Los Angeles. The cause is congestive heart failure. She'll be buried at the Reagan library next to her husband, President Ronald Reagan. Details of the services are forthcoming.
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One of the nicest ladies ever. It is a sad day.
[LI] In a move being called "ghoulish" by one critic, Britain's National Health Service (NHS) has announced plans to ask pregnant women to carry to term babies that have severe birth defects so that, once delivered or still born, their babies’ organs can be harvested for transplant.
"Women whose babies develop fatal defects in the early stages of pregnancy will be given advice on going ahead with the birth so the NHS can harvest their organs, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Most expectant mothers opt for termination after being told the devastating news their child has no chance of survival once born.
But now, amid a chronic shortage of donated organs, mums will be ‘supported’ to have the baby at nine months so that the child’s vital organs can be taken for transplant.
. . . . The move was revealed at a medical conference where NHS transplant surgeons said they wanted to take more organs from babies nationally to address a dire shortage.
As part of this drive, midwives and other NHS workers are to be educated about the potential for using babies’ organs in transplants.
In the past two years, only 11 babies under two months have become organ donors. But doctors believe they could raise that figure to around 100 a year.
Speaking of obtaining more organs from newborns, transplant surgeon Niaz Ahmad, of St James’s University Hospital in Leeds, said: ‘We are looking at rolling it out as a viable source of organ transplantation nationally.”
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Could this be a portent to something more deliberate? Could someone get pregnant, carry the child about 9 months and abort it, all solely to use the organs for, say, a family member who might need an organ?
#10
Oh, joy! When the leftists defeat us,
Delivering the West its quietus,
We'll revel in options
Like robot adoptions
And wedding our dead sibling's fetus!
#11
Zen, your limericks are on par with Mother Goose. I hope you are writing them all down. I'd gladly give two hours of skilled labor for a hardback compilation.
#12
There are calls for women to be routinely allowed abortions beyond the second trimester irregardless of the health of the fetus, all to undoubtedly be linked to the medical euthanasia andor medically-assisted suicide issues.
#13
Spring future, and flowers are bloomin',
The birds' and bees' bowers perfumin'.
For one silly second
Two crazy kids reckon
A fetus could almost be human.
[Iran Press TV] Under US President Barack Obama, Washington has sought to “destabilize” and “undermine” Venezuela because of its anti-imperialist policies and close ties to countries like China and Iran, an American geopolitical analyst says.
“Venezuela as a close ally of Russia, a close ally of Iran, as a close ally of China,” Draitser said during an interview with Press TV on Sunday.
The Obama administration is continuing to “destabilize, to undermine and to do whatever it can to destroy the independent, socialist nation of Venezuela,” he added.
The US government has also led destabilization efforts in other left-wing and anti-colonialist Latin American nations, including Argentina, Bolivia and Equator, Draitser observed.
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Never interfere with an enemy in the act of destroying themselves.
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I guess the left can't blame Bush on this one because he failed to support an anti-chavez coup that basically handed the country over (albet illegally) to non socalists. Still, I'm amazed they didn't try anyway.
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Venezuela is doing a pretty good job of national suicide. No need for the US or West. The idiots there voted in the free-stuff-army and the charismatic promise making tough talking leader. This is their reward. Trump and Sanders voters take note.
Azerbaijan intends to keep the oil production in 2016 at the 2015 level, head of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), Rovnag Abdullayev said in an interview with ANS TV channel. He noted that the projects for increasing the production volume have already been suspended.
“The oil output in Azerbaijan won’t exceed last year’s level,” said Abdullayev.
SOCAR produced 8.16 million tons of oil in 2015, compared to 8.32 million tons in 2014. In total, 41.59 million tons of oil was produced in Azerbaijan in 2015, compared to 42.02 million tons in 2014, according to the company. The country produced around 0.8 million barrels of oil per day in 2015.
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[Iran Press TV] The joint military exercises between the US and South Korea is aimed at reviving Cold War alliances and are seen by China as provocative actions, says political analyst William Jones.
He made the comments in a Sunday interview with Press TV about the upcoming two parallel annual drills - Key Resolve and Foal Eagle -- that will begin on Monday and involve over 300,000 South Korean troops and 15,000 US personnel.
About 2,100 US troops and a number of military warships have arrived in South Korea to partake in the war games, according to the Marine Corps Times.
Pyongyang regularly condemns the joint military exercises between Washington and Seoul as rehearsals for war against North Korea.
The US rejects any relationship between the North’s fourth nuclear test in January and its alleged satellite launch the next month, saying the drills were planned long before.
Pre-planned or not, "[the drills] always represent something of a provocative move," Jones said.
"What is happening now in terms of the US-South Korea relationship is provocative not only for North Korea, but also for China," the analyst said, arguing that Pyongyang was getting along with Beijing to calm the Korean peninsula before Washington floated deploying advanced missile systems to South Korea.
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"Provocative" > Wehell, now, dats strangez-vous so does PUDGY = NOKOR???
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CHINA is slamming or criticizing the Bamme'rs "Pivot/Return to Asia" because it is seemingly NOT getting the OVERSEAS PLA MILBASES as befitting a Globalist-desired "US-style", "US-par", "Mahanist"? SUPERPOWER = OWG CO-SUPERPOWER.
BEIJING SEES ITS CO-SUPERPOWER SIBLINGS RUSSIA + IRAN EXPANDING THEIR RESPECTIVE SPHERE(S) OF INFLUENCE ALA THEIR SO-CALLED "NEAR-ABROAD" REGIONS = NATIONAL PERIPHERIES, BUT BEIJING IS SEEMINGLY HAVING A HARDER TIME OF IT.
[Iran Press TV] North Korea has threatened "indiscriminate" nuclear strikes against the US and South Korea if they go ahead with joint military drills scheduled to commence on Monday.
The announcement was made via an early Monday statement released by North's National Defense Commission, citing the Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army (KPA).
"The indiscriminate nuclear strike... will clearly show those keen on aggression and war, the military mettle of (North Korea),"said the statement.
Thousands of South Korean and US forces are slated to take part in the upcoming the annual war games, dubbed "Foal Eagle" and "Key Resolve."
In the statement, Pyongyang claimed the exercises are "undisguised nuclear war drills" which threaten the North's national illusory sovereignty, warning of an all-out attack in response to "even the slightest military action."
"If we push the buttons to annihilate the enemies even right now, all bases of provocations will be reduced to seas in flames and ashes in a moment," it added.
Earlier, the North slammed drills, saying Washington would be held accountable for "igniting war."
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Should have sterilized that nation after the Pueblo.
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Lest we fergit, as per the NET the East China Sea competition or rivalry wid China is Japan's main national security issue, while for Mainland China proper its TAIWAN, i.e. Beijing's de facto sovereign recovery + reunification wid same.
China believes both the US THAAD + Russia's S-400 BMAAD are covertly pointed at it, notsomuch agz seemingly bellicose NOKOR, while NOKOR on its part wants to reunify with the South ASAP AMAP but knows that Beijing won't allow it unless it first gets back TAIWAN. WHY SHOULD RUSSIA + IRAN GET THEIR RESPECTIVE SPHERE(S) OF INFLUENCE BUT NOT CHINA???
As for NOKOR, China = Beijing is NOKOR's primary trading partner [also read, "SOLE"?] - iff the status quo on the Korean Peninsula is not changed China's already dominant or excessive share of bilateral trade wid NOKOR is likely to go ever higher, to possibly near or at 100%!? IT WON'T TAKE LONG FOR CHINA TO TAKE OVER ALL OF NOKOR'S GOVT-COMMERCIAL SECTORS + MILITARY, A SCENARIO WHICH NEITHER PUDGY NOR SOKOR [ROK] WANTS TO SEE HAPPEN.
PUDGY IS FIGHTING THE CLOCK - how much will US relations + credibility wid SOKOR + JAPAN be harmed iff the US allows China to take over or annex NOKOR, JUST BECAUSE THE US DOESN'T LIKE PUDGY PER SE OR THE KIM REGIME???
* FYI REUTERS > CHINA'S XI SAYS WON'T ALLOW TAIWAN TO BE "SPLIT OFF" FROM MAINLAND [evar!]
AGAIN.
RELATED BIGNEWSNETWORK > CHINA PRESIDENT [Xi Jinping] WARNS TAIWAN AGZ MOVES TOWARDS INDEPENDENCE.
Never independent shall Taiwan be from Beijing.
NO SUPRISE AS TAIWAN IS CHINA'S CROWN JEWEL DESIRED FUTURE PLA OFFSHORE CENTCOM INTO WESTPAC + FAR PACIFIC, ETC.
* Also from BIGNEWSNETWORK > THAAD IN SOUTH KOREA COULD USE [lower-level/atmosphere] BACKUP SYSTEMS, REPORT SAYS.
* SPUTNIK NEWS > WHAT ROLE WILL RUSSIA PLAY IN US-CHINA SOUTH CHINA SEA DISPUTE?
Besides sending the Russian Air Force to fly over andor near CHINA - YOU KNOW, GUAM USA.
Ditto as per CHINA-VS-JAPAN [US?] EAST CHINA SEA DISPUTE.
* XINHUA > CHINA WATCHES JAPAN'S ACTIVITIES IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA. PRC FM Spox Hong Lei.
US JP Morgan bank lowered its global oil supply estimates by 0.4 million barrels per day (bpd) to 96.4 million bpd, with the drop in non-OPEC supply only partially offset by higher OPEC estimates. In 2017, analysts of the bank forecast further global oil supply contraction of 0.5 million bpd amounting to 95.9 million bpd.
“Lower US, Canadian and European supply estimates are incorporated based on our view that low prices are starting to have an increased impact on the financial ability of producers to sustain production,” JP Morgan’s analysts said in a report obtained by Trend.
Non-OPEC oil supply is expected by the analysts to decline by 0.9 million bpd to 54.7 million bpd in 2016 and by 1 million bpd to 53.7 million bpd in 2017.
“Low prices have certainly started to feed through into lower non-OPEC supply growth, albeit not yet sufficiently to rebalance markets, analysts said. However, the process appears to be underway and building momentum. Consequently, it still seems premature for Saudi Arabia and others to look to support prices at this juncture.”
JP Morgan forecasts OPEC oil production at 32.2 million bpd both in 2016 and 2017 compared to 31.5 million bpd in 2015.
Cartel's 13 members produced 32.335 million bpd in January, about 130,700 bpd more than December 2015, according to OPEC’s latest report. The official quota for OPEC oil production stands at 30 million bpd.
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As soon as prices tick up, the supply will be matched.
The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) stole huge amounts of votes off the established political parties in elections in central Germany, while a small neo-Nazi party won 17 percent in one district.
Confirming polling which shows that the AfD have hugely increased their share of the vote since Germany decided to open its doors to refugees in late August 2015, the right-wing party won on average 13.2 percent of votes at local election in the central German state of Hesse on Sunday.
This result made the AfD the third largest party behind Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD), who won 28.2 percent and 28.0 percent respectively, Hessischer Rundfunk reports. Both of Germany’s largest political parties lost a substantial share of the vote from the last elections.
Perhaps this explains Frau Merkel's pull-back recently. She can read polls as well as any other politician...
In Hesse’s capital Wiesbaden, the AfD scored a particular success, winning 16.2 percent of the vote.
But it is the result in Frankfurt, a global financial centre with a cosmopolitan population, which in many ways came as a surprise.
Up until this point the AfD has largely won votes in economically marginalized areas such as the states of former East Germany. The AfD’s previous best election result was 12.2 percent of the vote in 2014 state elections in the eastern state of Brandenburg, one of the poorest regions in Germany.
In former West Germany, the AfD had previously struggled to make the 5 percent cut of votes necessary to make it into a state parliament, scoring a best of 6.1 percent in Hamburg in 2015.
While the AfD were born as a single issue party in 2013, fighting to dismantle the European single currency, they lurched to the right in the summer of 2015 when party members toppled founder and economics professor, Bernd Lucke. In recent months the party’s new leadership has caused outrage by suggesting that it is acceptable to shoot at immigrants who cross into Germany illegally.
With major state elections coming up in three German states in mid-March, the results also act as a shot across the bow of the CDU and SPD which both support an open-door refugee policy.
‘Terrifying result’
"It’s terrifying," Eva Högl, vice chairwoman of SPD in the national parliament, told broadcaster ARD, saying the AfD are following an "unspeakable course”.
Certainly terrifying for your career ambitions, Eva...
“If they enter the state parliaments with double digits and maybe even the federal parliament, this will change the whole German community in a very negative way.
"My meal ticket!"
“Elections are way too important to teach someone a lesson - it is about forming our society and democracy."
"My pension!"
"The traditional parties are paying the price for the voters' protest,” Manfred Pentz, CDU secretary general of Hesse, told to the Süddeutsche Zeitung on Monday.
I think that's called, "democracy". Though European and American elites would no doubt disagree...
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The pastor of a prominent Idaho church was shot and critically wounded in the church's parking lot Sunday, a day after he delivered the invocation at a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, authorities told NBC News.
Tim Remington, 55, senior pastor of the nondenominational Altar Church in Coeur d'Alene, was taken to Kootenai Health and Medical Center in critical condition, police and the hospital told NBC News. The hospital reported his status as stable late Sunday night.
Coeur d'Alene police Detective Jared Reneau said that when officers arrived shortly before 2 p.m. (5 p.m. ET), they found Remington with multiple gunshot wounds. Matthew Remington, Remington's nephew, told NBC station KTVB of Boise that his uncle was conscious and was talking to emergency workers on the way to the hospital.
The gunman fled and remains at large. Coeur d'Alene Police identified the suspect late Sunday as Kyle Andrew Odom, 30, a white man in his mid-30s with blond hair and blue eyes. Odom was believed to have been driving a 2004 silver Honda Accord, and police warned he should be considered armed and dangerous.
Associate pastor John Padula told NBC station KHQ of Spokane, Washington, that there is surveillance of the man waiting in a silver car for Remington. He told The Associated Press that Remington has been threatened several times by some of the drug addicts he works with through his faith-based recovery program.
Padula said the church was praying for the gunman as well as Remington.
"We don't love him less than anybody else," Padula said. "And we pray that he comes to know Jesus Christ as his lord and savior, so we don't want to see anything bad happen to him, either." But we wouldn't mind seeing him in jail until he promises to behave.
Remington, a prominent spokesman for conservative issues, delivered the opening prayer for Cruz, a U.S. senator from Texas who is among the leading candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, at a rally Saturday at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds.
"Our prayers are with Pastor Tim, his family, and the doctors who are supervising his care," Catherine Frazier, a spokeswoman for Cruz's campaign, told NBC News. "We pray for his full recovery and are thankful for the efforts of law enforcement to ensure the attacker is swiftly brought to justice."
Remington grew up in Coeur d'Alene, in northern Idaho, and was pastor of a church in California during the 1980s, when he started a street ministry for drug and alcohol addicts, according to a biography on the church's website.
He returned home to Coeur d'Alene about 18 years ago and started The Altar Church, as well as the Good Samaritan Rehabilitation drug and alcohol residential program. He and his wife, Cindy, have four children.
[Iran Press TV] Police have detained at least three suspects after a gang attacked a church in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, officials say.
Chief Badri Narayan, a local police chief, said on Sunday that law enforcement agencies tossed in the clink Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! at least three men over the attack, which took place in Kachna village near Raipur, the state capital of Chhattisgarh.
"A preliminary case has been registered against the miscreants for rioting and defiling a place of worship," said Meena.
A massive manhunt is underway to detain other suspects believed to be involved in the assault, the police chief added.
Several women and kiddieswere maimed after a group of about 50 men barged into the church during Sunday mass.
Local residents and witnesses said that the crowd of young men stormed into the church demanding that the Christian place of worship be shut down.
"About 40-50 people, who had covered their faces with cloth, attacked the gathering and damaged the chair and musical instruments," AFP quoted Shiv Kumar, a witness, as saying.
Some sources say that the assailants were furious because they had heard the church had been used to convert local villagers to Christianity.
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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.
Nancy Reagan has died in her home in Los Angeles. The cause is congestive heart failure. She'll be buried at the Reagan library next to her husband, President Ronald Reagan. Details of the services are forthcoming.
[LI] In a move being called "ghoulish" by one critic, Britain's National Health Service (NHS) has announced plans to ask pregnant women to carry to term babies that have severe birth defects so that, once delivered or still born, their babies’ organs can be harvested for transplant.
[Iran Press TV] Under US President Barack Obama, Washington has sought to “destabilize” and “undermine” Venezuela because of its anti-imperialist policies and close ties to countries like China and Iran, an American geopolitical analyst says.
North Korea
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The pastor of a prominent Idaho church was shot and critically wounded in the church's parking lot Sunday, a day after he delivered the invocation at a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, authorities told NBC News. 
