[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Twelve people were shot dead in Chicago over the holiday weekendMore than 40 people total were shot in gang-related violence, police said
Authorities said they seized more than three dozen guns since Friday afternoon
More than 750 people have been killed in the city in 2016, marking the first time in nearly two decades that the number of homicides has exceeded 700
Last year's Christmas weekend saw 30 people shot and six of those died
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Underneath Fisher's and Michael's white lines, Richard Adams, of Watership Down, passed.
Thomas Sowell dipped his pen for the last time, taking time for his photography, good for him. What a great mind; enjoy your time with your family and friends Mr. Sowell.
[NY Times] State governments will serve as an important bulwark against any attempt by President-elect Donald Trump to roll back the progress the United States has made in addressing climate change. And that's good news for the planet. So when you can't depend on the Feds, put your trust in the states. From the NYT, no less.
Over the last decade or so, most states have reduced their greenhouse gas emissions by promoting energy efficiency and renewable fuels. These trends should continue as clean energy costs continue to decline and, in some parts of the country, fall below the cost of dirtier fuels like coal. Farther down in the article, the Times does seem aware that some of the states are controlled by Republicans.
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And ignore a vast amount of 'western lands' belong to the feds, not the states. You think the NYT would support transferring them, now? Or just the Left Coast?
[LAHT] Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA admitted that it had mortgaged a 49.9% stake in the biggest three refineries it still owns outside Venezuela to Russian state-controlled oil giant Rosneft, after an article by the Latin American Herald Tribune exposed the transaction Thursday.
A 49.9% stake in the three refineries and the extensive U.S. pipelines owned by Citgo was "used to raise new financing", PDVSA said in a defensive statement.
Hugo's daughter needed some new baubles, you see...
PDVSA did not reveal what they received in exchange for the shares -- nor why it was kept secret -- but it is believed that Rosneft lent the Venezuelan state oil company $1.5 billion with the above mentioned stake in the Citgo refineries as collateral.
"Citgo is still owned by PDVSA", PDVSA's statement begins by saying, but later in the text PDVSA also admits that "in October it used as guarantee a 50.1% of Citgo in a bond swap operation." If PDVSA defaults,
...which it will...
Rosneft and bondholders could end up owning the refineries.
In short, the assets accumulated by previous Venezuela governments over 40 years were liquidated by "chavismo" in less than 10 years and with the proceeds disposed of in a manner not at all transparent.
Communism doesn't work. All else is mere detail. Socialism doesn't work a bit more slowly, but follows the same broad, pot-holed road to ruin.
"It is important to stress that any world class company, such as Petroleos de Venezuela, uses its assets to back its transactions and leverage its investments," PDVSA said.
Since 2005 onwards, PDVSA has also sold assets abroad other than refineries, such as pipeline companies, ports, terminals and storage capacity.
PDVSA's statement says the latest deal was carried out in the midst of "attacks from the press, but also during an adverse period for the world oil industry."
"PDVSA denies the media reports and comments based on speculation, rumors and biased information that discredit the Corporation made by spokespersons interested in generating political destabilization in our country," PDVSA said in its statement.
At the same time as it was confirming the secret deal, the monolithic ruling Chavista regime political party, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), went on the attack against LAHT, Russ Dallen and Redd Intelligence in an article called "Five Points that deny the sale of shares of Citgo."
"Beyond the recurring manipulation of anti-Chavez economists, journalists and politicians around PDVSA's financial operations, the decision -- ratified in an official communiqué -- to place shares of its subsidiary in the United States as a guarantee to improve its financial position is far from what other oil corporations are doing," the statement defensively begins, not mentioning that it only issued its "official communique" after LAHT's article dominated headlines.
Utterly adorable in their transparency.
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Eminent domain, see also Kelo, see also - nationalization (a practice Venezuela is very familiar with). If Moscow objects, point out the former American companies in pre-Fidel Cuba.
[Al Jazeera] Romania's president has rejected the left-wing Social Democrats' candidate for prime minister, Sevil Shhaideh, who would have been the EU nation’s first female and Moslem prime minister.
Klaus Iohannis has not elaborated on his reason for rejecting the candidacy of Shhaideh, a 52-year-old politician of Turkish origin who comes from Romania's 65,000-strong Moslem community.
"I have properly analysed the arguments for and against and I have decided not to accept this proposal," Klaus Iohannis said in a televised statement on Tuesday. "I call on the PSD coalition to make another proposal."
The PSD, which has yet to comment on the issue, had put forward Shhaideh after its sweeping election victory on December 11 when it won 45 percent of the vote.
The PSD, along with its junior coalition partner and longtime ally ALDE, control 250 of the combined 465 seats in the two-house assembly - enough majority for their leader to be elected as the prime minister.
Liviu Dragnea, leader of the PSD, had withdrawn his bid to become prime minister because he is serving a two-year suspended sentence for electoral fraud.
Klaus Iohannis gave no reasons for his rejection of Sevil Shhaideh, put forward by the Social Democrats (PSD), but there was speculation that it was due to her Syrian husband’s background.
Her husband, 54, worked in the Syrian agriculture ministry for 20 years before emigrating to Romania in 2011 and marrying Shhaideh the same year, according to the PSD.
Non-profit investigative journalism group the Rise Project said that he has several times expressed his support for Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... and for Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah.
Website HotNews cited unnamed sources as saying that the security services had "strongly cautioned" against Shhaideh’s nomination because of the closeness of her husband and his two brothers to the Assad regime.
This might have made giving Shhaideh the necessary security clearances to be the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... member’s prime minister problematic.
"I suppose that his rejection is linked to questions of national security and because the United States would not have been very keen," political analyst Andrei Taranu told AFP.
PSD leader Dragnea had withdrawn his own bid to become prime minister because of a conviction that bars him from office. Shhaideh’s personal closeness to Dragnea -- he was a witness at her wedding -- has led to accusations that he will remain in charge behind the scenes.
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[IsraelTimes] Twenty-nine Turkish former coppers went on trial in Istanbul on Tuesday accused of aiding the failed military coup in July -- the first trial over the attempt that led to some 270 deaths.
Renegade officers in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s military used tanks, fighter jets and helicopters in their July 15 attempt to unseat the government, attacking the parliament and other key buildings. Turkey blamed it on a network of followers of the US-based Moslemholy manFethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... -- an ally turned foe of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... More than 40,000 people have been tossed in the clink Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! for alleged involvement in the coup while tens of thousands of other suspected Gulen followers have been purged from government jobs.
The coppers standing trial in a prison and courthouse complex in the outskirts of Istanbul include three police helicopter pilots. They are accused of aiding the coup by not carrying out their duties, including disobeying orders to protect Erdogan’s Istanbul residence on the night of the coup, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency.
Prosecutors have demanded aggravated life prison terms for 21 officers charged with "attempted coup" while eight others face maximum 15 years in prison for membership in a terrorist organization.
The court was scheduled to hear the suspects’s statements in their defense on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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This may have been reported last month, but it's still joyous news to be spreading during the yuletide.
The New York Times Co. reported an astounding 95.7 percent drop in profit in the third quarter, Reuters reported. Buried way, way down in the Nov. 2 article, the third-to-last paragraph to be precise, it states:
Net profit attributable to the company fell 95.7 percent to $406,000, or break-even per share, hit mainly by restructuring charges related to headcount reductions.
In other words, profitability for the parent company of the rotten, anti-American New York Times was more or less eliminated.
Wow.
Keep up the good work.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Die you evil bitch!!! DIE!!!!
I may be getting waaaay to much enjoyment out of this...
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headcount reduction. Process in which the number of employees at a specific organization are reduced due to a change in circumstances. This reduction in the number of employees may be attributed to a drop in sales or other services.
Q3 in 2015 had an extra ordinary gain which makes the comp look bad.
Once the NYT rents out the bottom 8 floors of their biz, they will have a nice revenue flow not related to the journalism biz (other newspapers have done this). Of course the newspaper business model is failing but that's for almost all newspapers.
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Next stop - penny stock
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lord garth - that rental won't help for a while. They have 8 floors of dead space (actually, have - I understand these floors have been empty for the better part of the year), then it'll take them 6 months (best case scenario) to renovate to the new lessee's specs, all the while getting no $ from it. It's worse than it looks until the space is rented.
[snip]CBS Atlanta affiliate WGCL reports aspiring rapper Yung Mazi is recovering after being shot inside a Waffle House Surprise!
restaurant in Atlanta early Tuesday morning.[snip] This TMR doesn't understand the difference between "bulletproof" and "lucky."
Guessing inner city Atlanta schools don't cover Ghost Shirt history
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‘God Made Me Bulletproof a bullet magnet,' Atlanta Rapper Tweets After He's Shot Again
FTFY, Yung.
BTW, I firmly believe that Waffle House should be an internationally recognized neutral zone, guaranteeing physical safety and good coffee at all times.
Mike
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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.
[NY Times] State governments will serve as an important bulwark against any attempt by President-elect Donald Trump to roll back the progress the United States has made in addressing climate change. And that's good news for the planet.
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Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
