[WASHINGTONPOST] Prosecutors said that the officer who fatally shot a Charlotte man in September will not be charged for the shooting, concluding that the man was armed and that the officer acted lawfully during the encounter.
"It’s a justified shooting based on the totality of the circumstances," R. Andrew Murray, district attorney for Mecklenburg County, said during a news conference Wednesday morning.
The shooting of Keith Lamont Scott on Sept. 20 set off days of heated, sometimes violent protests in Charlotte, some of the most intense demonstrations seen nationwide amid an increased focus on how police use deadly force.
Murray said that the recommendation from 15 career prosecutors in this case was unanimous. He said that he informed Scott’s family of the decision earlier Wednesday.
"It was a difficult decision," Murray said during a briefing Wednesday morning. "However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... the family was extremely gracious."
Scott’s family said they were "profoundly disappointed" in the announcement Wednesday. They also thanked Murray and Sherlocks for sharing information about how the probe unfolded and concluded.
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It doesn't advance The Narrative when a black police officer shoots a black suspect.
A lengthy albeit timely perspective of the Cuban revolution. If time permits, I recommend a second read, possibly this evening. A good cigar and a paloma or two as well.
[Hartford Courant] Pesident-elect Donald Trump may have considerable leverage in negotiations with United Technologies Corp. as he tries to force the conglomerate to reverse its decision to move 1,400 Carrier jobs to Mexico from Indiana.
Trump can renegotiate UTC's aerospace contracts with the Pentagon and seek revised federal environmental regulations and performance standards governing air conditioning and cooling equipment made by Carrier. He also could propose new federal tax policy affecting billions of dollars in cash that UTC and other conglomerates hold overseas.
"We have an administration that's going to evaluate corporate decisions and trade offs on a country level, not a company level," said Nick Heymann, an analyst at William Blair and Co.
The words 'OPEC' and 'exceed expectations' have rarely, if ever, been used in the same sentence," Jeffrey Halley, senior market analyst at OANDA said. "However, yesterday's production deal seems to have done just that." The price of crude and energy shares have spiked, especially across Asian markets, in the wake of OPEC's decision to reduce global oil production by 5 percent. The dollar has also benefited, rising to a nine-month high.
At the OPEC exporters' group meeting in Vienna yesterday, the cartel's 14 members agreed to reduce production by around 4.5 percent, or 1.2 million barrels a day. Key non-member Russia also committed to a reduction, its first in 15 years.
The surge ended weeks of uncertainty and volatility on crude markets as the key players bickered over who would shoulder the biggest burden of the cuts.
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Gentlemen, start your engines, let the cheating begin!
[Breitbart] Sixteen different disability associations are being evicted as the local government has earmarked their premises in central Piteå to house newly-arrived migrants.
The affected organisations under Sweden’s disability umbrella, which include groups for the elderly and infirm and people with dementia, fear it will be difficult to find new premises that they can both afford and are accessible to the people they help.
Piteå’s Cooperative Body of Organisations of Disabled People (HSO) has rented the large, two storey building, in which 16 groups serve nearly 3,000 members across the city, for 22 years.
The municipality, governed by a Red-Red-Green coalition of Social Democrats, members of the Green Party, and radical Left Party, decided that the premises will be converted into housing for newly-arrived migrants.
Local government have said the disability organisations can move to a disused school, but different groups fear for how the new location might affect them.
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The municipality, governed by a Red-Red-Green coalition of Social Democrats, members of the Green Party, and radical Left Party, decided that the premises will be converted into housing for newly-arrived migrants.
This paragraph tells you pretty much everything you need to know.
[DeutscheWelle] More and more Turks are applying for political asylum in Germany. They feel threatened and repressed by the Erdogan government, and they fear for their lives. Most applicants are Kurds, like Mazhar Zumrut.
Elegantly-dressed Mazhar Zumrut does not want to speak with us in the asylum center's community room: He doesn't trust the others living there. "They could spy on me," he whispers. He is mistrustful, and feels persecuted and spied upon even in supposedly safe Germany. Yet, he is doing better here on the German countryside at the edge of North-Rhine Westphalia. He has settled in here, in his small, brightly-painted room. He says he has no other choice.
Deutsche Welle, where Canada gets its news
Trudeau on Tuesday approved the plan to triple the capacity of the Trans Mountain pipeline to move crude from inland Alberta to the Pacific coast. The importance of the Pacific pipeline decisions grew after US President Barack Obama's administration turned down TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline, from Canada to the US Gulf Coast.
The project, costing 6.8 billion Canadian dollars ($5 billion), would be a big step in opening up the possibility of exports to the Asian market from Canada's oil sands. Although a pipeline already exists, the newly-approved plan is to create another line, running parallel, that could carry almost triple the amount - up from 300,000 to 890,000 barrels a day.
The pipeline, proposed by Houston-based Kinder Morgan, will terminate at Burnaby, in Vancouver Harbour. HA! Texas strikes again!
"The project will triple our capacity to get Canadian energy resources to international markets beyond the United States," Trudeau said. Alberta alone has the world's third largest reserve of oil but, without the expansion of the pipeline, its distribution might prove too costly to export by ship or rail. Howya gonna make Alberta a seaport?
Trudeau on Tuesday also approved another pipeline - Enbridge's Line 3 - from Alberta to the US state of Wisconsin, which is set to nearly double the line capacity to 760,000 barrels a day heading south of the border. Trudeau paying off Wisconsin for voting for Trump?
However, opponents - which include municipalities in British Columbia, aboriginal groups and environmental organizations - have fought the plan, citing concerns about climate change as well as worries over pipeline leaks, spills or fires. Don't forget the caribou! And the whales!
Many have looked for inspiration from protesters in the US, where there have been months of protest over the Dakota Access Oil pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois. The $3.8-billion project is opposed by humanitarian George Soros the Standing Rock Sioux, whose reservation is near to the route and who fear a leak might contaminate their drinking water. Protests over the pipeline there have recently turned violent, with complaints of heavy-handedness against demonstrators.
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Enbridge's Line 3 - from Alberta to the US state of Wisconsin
It will be vigorously opposed in Wisconsin by aboriginal groups (although not necessarily from the area), environmental organizations, old hippies AND teacher's union thugs.
Trudeau is counting on that. The fun has just begun.
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So I should keep not sell my Kinder Morgan stock.
BTW they have history of 2.25% qtrly dividends.
Today they are down 1.44% to $21.88
[Daily Caller] The winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for literature says he has fulfilled a pre-election promise to cut up his green card and leave the United States if Donald Trump was elected president.
"I have already done it, I have disengaged [from the United States]. I have done what I said I would do," Wole Soyinka, an 82-year-old Nigerian poet and playwright, told Agence France-Presse at an education conference in South Africa on Thursday.
"I had a horror of what is to come with Trump... I threw away the [green] card, and I have relocated, and I’m back to where I have always been," he added.
Soyinka, who recently completed a stint as a scholar in residence at New York University, made his pledge to cut up his green card -- which provides permanent legal residence status -- just days before the Nov. 8 election.
[Right Scoop] Apparently former UN Ambassador John Bolton is not yet out of the mix for Secretary of State!
Fox News just reported that Bolton met with Pence today and will meet with Trump on Friday as a contender for the position:
I really thought Bolton was not being considered any longer, as there’s be no discussion on him for Secretary of State in what seem like weeks. Which has been baffling to me, as he’s literally the best man for the job. But now, all of a sudden, he’s meeting with both Pence and Trump. Does this mean Trump’s dinner with Romney didn’t go so well?
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My hope is Trump was just picking Romney's brain.
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Romney walks away having given Trump a kiss on the ring. And he's happy to get any attention. The Media has something to talk about and Trump still holds all the cards.
Bolton IS the best man for the job. He KNOWS how the State Dept. Works, he knows the bureaucracy and how he can identify the clowns who need to be transferred out of their careers and into quitting because they can't be fired easily. Just send them to Whale Blubber island to salute the seals and take names or to Butthump, Nicaragua for important work counting the palm trees for the next 8 years. Clean out the State Dept. which sucked Hillary's tits. Hire fresh Trump leadership.
Bolton will know how to cull the herd.
Trump may have had him in mind from the start.
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"If Bolton is selected, they'll be running, not walking from Foggy Bottom."
Make it so, Mr. B. :-D
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#5 My hope is Trump was just picking Romney's brain. Posted by Abu Uluque I think was doing the same with Dave Petraeus - picking his brain on the Defense Department noms as well as the Intel World.
[DAWN] DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A local court on Wednesday sentenced a former independent MPA Javed Akbar Khan to two years in prison and fined him Rs20,000 in a fake degree case.
The politician, who was disqualified by an election tribunal in 2013, was incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! and shifted to central jail Dera following the decision was announced by the district and sessions judge.
In December 2013, an election tribunal had disqualified him and ordered re-election on his constituency, PK-68, Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... , on an election petition filed by his rival candidate, Makhdum Mureed Kazim, who is a former provincial minister. Later, the Supreme Court also withheld the decision of the election tribunal and referred the case to the district and sessions judge, Dera.
Akbar Khan had won the May 11, 2013 general elections from PK-68 by securing 41,349 votes against 31,125 votes obtained by Mr Kazim.
The petitioner claimed that Akbar Khan had submitted a fake degree of a religious seminary (madressah) along with his nomination papers for the 2008 general elections, as at that time condition of graduation was applicable to candidates. The petitioner had stated that under articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution, Mr Akbar was not a righteous person and thus stood disqualified.
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[DAWN] RAW ... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man... ALPINDI: A woman, her brother and a pedestrian was injured when the woman’s ex-husband shot up her on Wednesday on 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. Road, the police said.
According to the police, Ms Raheela had obtained khula from a court and was on her way to her parents’ house in Westridge with her brother on his cycle of violence when they were attacked by her ex-husband on Peshawar Road.
During the attack, 35-year-old Raheela, her 44-year-old brother Jawad Akhtar and a pedestrian identified as Fida Hussein were maimed.
The suspect, identified as Mohammad Shabir, managed to escape. The victims were taken to the District Headquarters Hospital where their condition is said to be stable.
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[DAWN] SUKKUR: A man surrendered himself before police on Wednesday claiming that he had rubbed out his daughter and nephew for honour in Rasool Bukhsh Weesar village near Jacobabad the previous night.
The Jacobabad police quoted Mushtaq Weesar as telling them that he lost patience after his daughter, Gul Bano, 16, and nephew, Dur Mohammed, 19, did not pay heed to his repeated warning against their having an extramarital affair. On Tuesday night, he said, he shot them dead.
The police went to the place identified by the suspect and collected the bodies. The suspect was booked and tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! .
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[DAWN] Pakistain cannot have bullet trains, even though this was one of the ruling party’s election promises, Khawaja Saad Rafique told the National Assembly on Tuesday.
"When we asked the Chinese about it, they laughed at us. We should consider the 160kmph train under CPEC as a bullet train. We can’t afford an actual bullet train, there’s no market for it," the railway minister said.
Admitting that their party had faced a lot of criticism over not launching the project, he said that the country didn’t have enough money to build one. "Even if we do, we don’t have such a big range of upper and middle class passengers who will buy tickets."
In an articulate speech on the floor of the house, Mr Rafique gave members a comprehensive overview of the performance of his department and insisted that he was doing as much as possible to clean up the department and turn it into a profit-making entity.
Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... are not prepared to turn over railway land to the Pakistain Railways, preventing the department from using them to generate more revenue, he told the house.
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"We can’t afford an actual bullet train, there’s no market for it," the railway minister said.
[IsraelTimes] Coca-Cola says it has formally opened its first factory in the Gazoo Strip, in a move that could create hundreds of jobs in the beleaguered Paleostinian enclave.
The bottling facility was partially open for several months but begins full operations after a ceremony.
The $20-million investment is the company’s first plant in Gazoo and will create around 120 jobs immediately, a statement says, with an eventual expansion to 270.
Supplying a captive market...
"The opening of our first Gazoo plant is an important milestone," says Zahi Khouri, the founder and chairman of National Beverage Company (NBC) responsible for Coca-Cola in the Paleostinian territories.
"Our new Gazoo plant shows our ongoing commitment to investing and supporting progress in communities around the world," says Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent in a statement.
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New industry! Gazans, apprentice
And combat the sugary menace!
You'll march and you'll drill
(oh, if whining could kill!)
To be Palestine's best irredentists.
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Because the Marines use the M16 rifle and the Army uses the M4 carbine? Different powder formulations and bullet compositions for the two barrel lengths.
The M855A1 is a tungsten bullet with a copper wrapped steel core.
During testing, the M855A1 performed better than M80 7.62×51mm NATO ball ammunition against certain types of targets (particularly hardened steel), blurring the performance differences that previously separated the two cartridges. The US Army Picatinny Arsenal stated that the new M855A1 offers improved hard target capability, more consistent performance at all distances, enhanced dependability, improved accuracy, reduced muzzle flash, and higher velocity compared to the M855 round. Further, the Army stated the new M855A1 ammunition is tailored for use in M4 carbines, but should also give enhanced performance in M16 rifles and M249 light machine guns. The new 62-grain (4 g) projectile or bullet used in the M855A1 round has a copper core with a 19-grain (1.2 g) steel "stacked-cone" penetrating tip. The M855A1 cartridge is sometimes referred to as "green ammo" because it fires a lead free projectile.[67][68][77][78][79][80] It is not necessarily more lethal than the M855, but performs more consistently every time it hits a soft target and retains its performance at longer distances. The EPR can penetrate a 3⁄8 in (9.5 mm) thick steel barrier from an M4 at 350 meters and from an M16 at 400 meters. Ballistics for both rounds are similar and don't require weapons to be re-zeroed, but if they are the EPR can be slightly more accurate. The steel-tip penetrator of the M855A1 is noticeably separated from the jacket of the bullet and can spin, but this is part of the design and does not affect performance. The M855A1 costs only 5 cents more per round than the M855.[81] The M855A1 bullet has a 1⁄8 in (3.2 mm) greater length than the M855.[82] Because steel and copper are less dense than lead, the bullet is lengthened inside the case to achieve the same weight as its predecessor.
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University of California, Los Angeles students were treated to a dinner dialogue this month on the topic of "white feminism" and its relation to white supremacy.
The "White Feminism" dinner dialogue was hosted by the campus Intergroup Relations Program, an administrative center that seeks to educate the UCLA community on issues of "social identity, interpersonal, and intergroup relations/conflict, prejudice reduction, and social justice."
Celia Cody-Carrese, an Intergroup Relations Center intern who helped put on the event, told The Daily Bruin that organizers chose white feminism as their topic because they think feminism has traditional ties with white supremacy, noting that the term "feminism" is most frequently applied to white women, while the concerns of black women are generally treated as a separate, racial issue. Revolution eats its children?
[Breitbart] The University of Mississippi Student Body Senate has pulled a resolution which would have created a "sanctuary campus" for illegal immigrant students and banned federal immigration officials from stepping foot on campus after overwhelming backlash.
Hours after Breitbart Texas reported on the push to make Ole Miss a sanctuary campus, the resolution was pulled from being voted on by the Student Senate after alumni and the general public flooded the university’s and Sen. Chris McDaniel’s (R-Ms) office with concerns over the resolution, according to Mississippi Pep.
Under the proposed sanctuary campus policy pushed by social justice groups and the Ole Miss College Democrats, campus police would have been barred from cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
The resolution also demanded that Ole Miss "refuse" ICE and federal immigration officials the ability to set foot on the public campus.
Under the resolution, the use of E-verify would have been banned while the creation of a university office for illegal immigrant students would have been established.
The United Conservatives organization was bombarded with calls from Ole Miss fans who wanted the sanctuary campus policy thrown out.
"We pulled together a quick effort to reach out to our coalition," United Conservatives Communications Director Keith Plunkett told Mississippi Pep. "We have a really good group of strong conservative students up at Ole Miss and they are doing incredible work, especially considering the hostility on campus this year."
The organization released a "call to action" to help stop the sanctuary campus effort and within three hours, thousands of conservatives had called McDaniel or Ole Miss to voice their disdain with the proposal.
At least two Student Senators pulled their initial co-sponsorship for the resolution, Breitbart Texas was told, as McDaniel and conservatives celebrated the short-term blockade of the plan.
Faculty Senate Chair Brice Noonan told HottyToddy.com the resolution can be re-visited at a later date, claiming that it was pulled because it did not follow "proper procedure".
Sanctuary campus policies are proliferating at universities across the country in response to President-Elect Donald Trump’s immigration proposals.
Trump’s plan promises to ban sanctuary cities; build a wall along the southern border; and enforce E-verify.
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moon in a puddle
laughing up life like a dawg
takes a shallow draft
Oddly enough, I'll go months without thinking haiku but that popped out yesterday, and here comes Landrieu? Grist for the simulation business, I guess.
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They have obviously never encountered US Marshals.
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"How could any mature adult even let this get started?"
There's your mistake, #2 Skid - you presume adults (mature or otherwise) are anywhere in residence there. Just a bunch of SJW idiots (but I repeat myself).
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UW-Madison shows some signs of sense. Not all the students, unfortunately. (Most of the students I work with are relatively sane, if somewhat naive.)
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There are lots of questions surrounding a fire that gutted a home on Johnson Street in Plant City overnight.
Along with heavy damage, anti-Trump graffiti was sprayed on the house, inside and out. The family who lives there was spending the night with relatives, but Navy veteran Matthew Smith says his home was targeted because he is a Donald Trump supporter.
"It's not what I expected out of America," says Smith. "It should be us figuring problems out together."
Smith flies three flags in front of his house: the American flag, the POW Flag, and the Navy flag.
"We supported Trump from when he started running for office," says Matthew's wife Brittany. "We never made it public. We never had a sign in our backyard, so no one really knew we were pro Trump."
But Matthew says he's been very active on Facebook, with posts supporting Trump, the Second Amendment, and other conservative causes.
Investigators are looking into possible connections with arsonists.
Earlier this month, anti-Trump graffiti was sprayed on two mobile homes near Mango. Investigators say someone tried to light one of them on fire.
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Why I try to read a passage from my Beecher Bible every weekend.
Oh, keep an eye out for Sgt. Snowflake and xis assault shotgun. Hilarious. "I didn't know how cool the 2nd Amendmentt was until a democrat wasn't elected president."
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.
[WASHINGTONPOST] Prosecutors said that the officer who fatally shot a Charlotte man in September will not be charged for the shooting, concluding that the man was armed and that the officer acted lawfully during the encounter.
[Hartford Courant] Pesident-elect Donald Trump may have considerable leverage in negotiations with United Technologies Corp. as he tries to force the conglomerate to reverse its decision to move 1,400 Carrier jobs to Mexico from Indiana.
The words 'OPEC' and 'exceed expectations' have rarely, if ever, been used in the same sentence," Jeffrey Halley, senior market analyst at OANDA said. "However, yesterday's production deal seems to have done just that." The price of crude and energy shares have spiked, especially across Asian markets, in the wake of OPEC's decision to reduce global oil production by 5 percent. The dollar has also benefited, rising to a nine-month high.
[Daily Caller] The winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for literature says he has fulfilled a pre-election promise to cut up his green card and leave the United States if Donald Trump was elected president.
We should be hearing something from Candy on the dinner very soon. 
[DAWN] DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A local court on Wednesday sentenced a former independent MPA Javed Akbar Khan to two years in prison and fined him Rs20,000 in a fake degree case.
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[DAWN] Pakistain cannot have bullet trains, even though this was one of the ruling party’s election promises, Khawaja Saad Rafique told the National Assembly on Tuesday.
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