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A suspect dressed in black allegedly kicked in a Marine veteran’s door just after 3 a.m. Thursday in Salt Lake City and was shot dead in the living room.
Sant fought with the men until his 29-year-old son emerged from a back room and shot both suspects. Tupu died at the scene, and the second suspect was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
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Particularly enlightening was the comment in the news article to the effect: KSL reports that the surviving suspect “was shot multiple times.”
Because if he's still moving, he could get up, take your gun away from you and shoot you dead. Or beat you to death with his fists. Or sit on you and beat your skull in against the floorboards using your ears as handles.
Russian poet Evgeny Yevtushenko, a leading force in the brief post-Stalinist Soviet literary "thaw" of the 1960s, has died in the United States at the age of 85, TASS news agency reported on Saturday, citing a close friend.
"Five minutes ago, Evgeny Aleksandrovich (Yevtushenko) departed into eternity," TASS said, quoting Mikhail Morgulis, a friend of Yevtushenko's who said he had spoken to his son.
Born in 1932, Yevtushenko went on to publish more than 150 collections of poems. His first book, "The Prospects of the Future", was published in 1952 when he was the youngest member of the Union of Soviet Writers. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963.
He was especially prominent during the brief literary thaw under Communist Party leader Nikita Khrushchev, but had an often ambivalent relationship with Communist authorities. In one of his most famous poems, The Heirs of Stalin, from 1961, he wrote that though dictator Josef Stalin had died, his legacy lived on, "he was scheming, had merely dozed off".
In the same year he published Babi Yar, about a massacre of Jews by Nazi occupiers at a ravine in Kiev - a criticism of what he saw as the Soviet Union's own anti-semitism in its fashioning of history.
TASS reported on Friday that Yevtushenko, who had moved to the United States in 1991, had been admitted to hospital in a critical condition.
The UN Children”s Fund (Unicef) reported today the increase to 18,400 cases of cholera and acute diarrheal diseases in Somalia this year, higher than the figure reported in 2016.
While the number of children with severe acute malnutrition increases in this country, the infectious-contagious disease also accelerates, which is demonstrated in the figure of 15, 600 in 2017, compared to the previous one, pointed out Unicef.
‘These data are a wake-up call; Children die of malnutrition, hunger, thirst and disease, ‘assured the regional director of that agency for eastern and southern Africa, Leila Pakkala.
The office warned that minors with severe malnutrition are nine times more likely to die from one of those ills than those who are well fed.
‘We have the opportunity now to avoid a massive loss of life,’ Pakkala noted.
The appeal for UNICEF funds for Somalia this year increased from 61.4 million euros to 136.8 million; And by mid-March, the financial deficit was 54 percent.
Six years after the declaration of famine, this Horn of Africa country is once again on the brink of catastrophe, noted officials from the UN agency.
Some things never change...
Most of those affected by these intestinal diseases are children of early childhood, according to the spokesman of the United Nations, Christophe Boulierac, who reported that therapeutic food was distributed to 35,400 children with acute malnutrition in the months of January and February 2017.
Faced with such figures provided by Unicef, the concern increases, as they account for 58 percent of the rate of severe child malnutrition, compared with the first two months of last year.
This country suffers from the worst drought in recent years, which has caused its inhabitants to drink non-potable water, and in turn, the outbreak of cholera and serious infectious diseases.
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I still don't understand why diseases don't spread in Syria & Iraq - guess if every family tree is a flagpole, infection can't spreed.
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Helpful Pro-Tip™: Don't shit in your drinking water
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I still don't understand why diseases don't spread in Syria & Iraq
Mostly in Syria, I think, but who is going to report it to whom when there are severe shortages of doctors, medicines, food, and water, but an excess of bullets?
Venezuela's political crisis is looming over Sunday's tight presidential election in Ecuador, where a leftist government aligned with Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro is hoping to prolong its decade-long rule.
Ecuador pro-business candidate Guillermo Lasso has doubled down on accusations that government-backed candidate Lenin Moreno would turn the Andean country into Venezuela, alluding to a recent Supreme Court move there to neuter the National Assembly that foes denounced as a lurch into dictatorship.
"A coup annulling the National Assembly! Is that what you want?" right-wing challenger Lasso told a crowd of supporters at a rally in the sweltering city of Guayaquil this week. "Then let's go for change! Change is avoiding Venezuela's suffering."
The outgoing administration of Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has scoffed at the accusations, slamming them as desperate attempts by Lasso, a former banker, to spook voters and cover up his plans to slash welfare programs.
"They've been trying to confuse the population with the argument that Ecuador is going to turn into Venezuela," Foreign Minister Guillaume Long said on Friday. "But no, Ecuador is not Venezuela."
The Ecuadorean economy, like the Venezuelan, is heavily dependent on oil and is suffering a downturn. But Ecuador's situation is a far cry from the full-blown crisis in Venezuela, where millions of people are suffering food shortages and raging inflation.
Critics have long accused Correa of clamping down on the press, stacking institutions with supporters and being hostile toward business - just as they see happening in Venezuela's self-styled "21st century Socialism."
Lasso accused "foreign mercenaries" - and alluded to them being Venezuelan - of trying to attack him with rocks, sticks, and knives after a soccer game on Tuesday. The Ecuadorean government rejected the accusation.
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Amazing!
Shipping iron ore from Brazil across the Atlantic around Africa to China is cheaper than mining it in China. Why not smelt it first then ship ingots?
[FRANCE24] In a dramatic week in Venezuela, the pro-government Supreme Court on Saturday revoked its controversial annulment of the opposition-led congress amid international condemnation and protests against President Nicolas Maduro.
"This controversy is over ... the constitution has won," Socialist Maduro said in a televised speech just after midnight local time to a specially convened state security committee that ordered the top court to reconsider its rulings.
The court said in a ruling published on its website that it was revoking a March 29 decision to take over legislative powers from the National Assembly, a move opponents had branded a "coup d'etat."
It also revoked an earlier ruling that stripped politicians of their immunity from prosecution and ended emergency security powers it had conferred on Maduro in the crisis.
The Supreme Court duly erased the two controversial judgments during the morning, the information minister said.
The U-turn is viewed by many as an effort to defuse growing anger, protests and ’coup’ claims that have spread like wildfire on social media.
The opposition said it was a hypocritical move by an unpopular government that overplayed its hand.
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... Maduro, 54, sought to cast it as a statesman-like move in resolving a conflict.
Coup!
"You can't pretend to just normalise the nation after carrying out a 'coup,'" said Julio Borges, leader of the National Assembly legislature. Borges publicly tore up the court rulings this week and refused to attend the security committee, which includes the heads of major institutions.
Having already shot down most congressional measures since the opposition won control in 2015, the pro-Maduro Supreme Court went further on Wednesday with a ruling it was taking over the legislature's functions because it was in "contempt" of the law.
That galvanised Venezuela's demoralised and divided opposition coalition and brought a torrent of international condemnation and concern ranging from the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... to most major Latin American countries.
Flip-flop...
The Supreme Court's flip-flop may take the edge off protests, but Maduro's opponents at home and abroad will seek to maintain the pressure. They are furious that authorities thwarted a push for a referendum to recall Maduro last year and also postponed local elections scheduled for 2016.
Now they are calling for next year's presidential election to be brought forward and the delayed local polls to be held, confident the ruling Socialist Party will lose.
"It's time to mobilise!" student David Pernia, 29, said in western San Cristobal city, adding Venezuelans were fed up with autocratic rule and economic hardship. "Women don't have food for their children, people don't have medicines."
Foreign pressure
On Saturday, the National Assembly planned an open-air meeting in Caracas, while South America's UNASUR bloc was to meet in Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... with most of its members unhappy at Venezuela.
The hemispheric Organization of American States (OAS) had a special session slated for Monday in Washington.
Even before this week's events, OAS head Luis Almagro had been pushing for Venezuela's suspension, but he is unlikely to garner the two-thirds support needed in the 34-nation block despite hardening sentiment towards Maduro round the region.
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"This controversy is over ... the constitution has won"
More like the international bond market said "No".
France's centrist presidential contender Emmanuel Macron singled out the far-right National Front as his chief rival on Saturday, vowing to win the first round on April 23 as a new poll showed the election race getting tighter.
"The National Front, our main opponent, is attacking us on all sides. Never boo them. Fight them," a defiant Macron told a rally in the southern city of Marseille.
"I want us to kick far from this campaign and from the country the party of hatred and contempt and all those who make us so ashamed. We are going to be ahead in the first round and we're going to beat them," he said.
The presidential race is even closer than it was a week ago, an opinion poll indicated on Saturday. First-round voting intentions for the frontrunners, Macron and National Front leader Marine Le Pen, showed both slipping one percentage point to 25 percent and 24 percent respectively.
Third-placed conservative Francois Fillon gained two points to 19 percent, while the far left's Jean-Luc Melenchon climbed one point to 15 percent, according to the survey by the BVA polling institute conducted on March 29-30.
Complicating predictions, 38 percent of people either could not say how they would vote, or may yet change their minds. That was down two percentage points from a week earlier, but showed the race remains wide open.
The poll showed independent Macron had solidified his voter base, with 63 percent of those opting for him sure of their decision, up 8 points from a week ago and his highest certainty score since campaigning began in earnest in February.
However, Le Pen still had by far the most solid voter base, with an unchanged 81 percent of her voters certain to pick her.
The poll though, like others this year, showed Macron beating her with 60 percent of votes in the May 7 second round.
Fillon's recovery from the lows that followed a fake work scandal surrounding his wife puts him within 5 points of Le Pen and 6 points of Macron, with some voters previously tempted to abstain deciding to go for him after all, BVA's commentary said.
BVA put Melenchon's climb since a strong performance in the first TV debate on March 20 partly down to more of his natural sympathizers deciding to vote.
It said official Socialist candidate Benoit Hamon, who is in fifth place on 11.5 percent and also has hard left policies, could be vulnerable.
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: During the recent polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... campaign held in the capital it was observed that a large number of educated people did not want to vaccinate their children.
Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Abdul Sattar Isani termed the situation unfortunate and claimed that all possible steps would be taken to ensure that every child was administered the polio drops.
He said even cases were registered against those who refused the vaccination.
Prime Minister’s Focal Person on Polio Eradication Senator Ayesha Raza Farooq said she was not in favour of registering cases as the administration of polio vaccine was a continuous process.
She requested the media to play a role to create awareness that polio vaccine is safe.
During the current year environmental samples collected from different parts of Islamabad and Rawalpindi were found positive for the poliovirus.
As a result, a special polio campaign was launched on March 27 in the high risk areas of the twin cities.
An official of the polio programme, requesting not to be quoted, said teams were formed to administer polio drops to every child.
"However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... it was strange that we faced a strong resistance from even well-educated people. Though they did not have religious reasons but were not in favour of vaccinating their children. A majority of them claimed that they had administered polio drops privately but failed to produce a vaccination card or certificate," he said.
Sharing an incident, he said a resident of Sector G-7/2 refused to vaccinate his son.
"We tried our best and even a representative of the district administration was sent to the house to convince him. However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... the citizen started threatening the team after which an FIR was registered against him with the Aabpara police," he said.
Abbas Khan, a duty officer at the Aabpara police, told Dawn that though the citizen was tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! and an FIR registered against him, he could not be detained as it was a bailable offence.
"My initial impression was that the person against whom the FIR was registered would be totally illiterate but I was shocked to see that he was well educated," he said.
The official of the polio programme said the polio team faced an awkward situation when a deputy secretary of a ministry refused to administer polio drops to children present in his house.
"A well-known doctor, who works in a private hospital, was found involved in asking citizens not to administer polio drops to children. During the campaign when we reached a school in Ghori Town, the principal closed the gate and called the police.
"Even some foreigners refused the polio vaccines claiming that their children had already received the drops. But they failed to provide any certificates due to which we administered vaccine to their children," he said.
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See California and the refusal to get inoculations gambling that in order to avoid the very very small chance of side effects, they'll expose their children to diseases with life long debilitating consequences.
[The Hill] President Trump wrote a letter to Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang last month promoting increased cooperation between their two countries, according to a statement posted on the Vietnamese government's website Friday.
"In his letter dated on February 23, President Donald Trump affirmed his wish to boost cooperation with Vietnam and work with the regional countries to ensure peace and prosperity in Asia-Pacific on the basis of international law," the statement says.
News of the letter came as U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius, who also served under the Obama administration, met with Quang on Friday.
Relations between the U.S. and Vietnam strengthened under former President Barack Obama in response to a dispute with China in the South China Sea. Vietnam would have also been a key beneficiary of Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement.
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...If the Vietnamese understand anything, it's this: First, there can be no worse enemy than us, but no better friend. Secondly, they lived 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' for a looooong time while fighting us. They'll go for this.
Mike
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Vietnam is a natural ally today and most of them are very friendly to Americans. Getting closer ties, and maybe even a naval base is nothing but win-win for both countries.
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The Vietnamese have a deep seated apprehension of their imperialistic northern neighbor China. IIRC, a NVA commander: "The Americans will lose patience and be gone soon, it took a thousand years to drive off the Chinese!"
Going to the YouTube page, one sees that it was posted by Black and Blonde Media. Clicking on the link yields a discussion of the thing, to whit:
During last weekend’s resistance to the many pro-Trump rallies held around the nation, where many of them were visually reduced to a bunch of fleeing pussies, the Boston chapter of antifa responded introducing a new approach. Aside from the intro and ending insert, the following video is the actual, serious presentation where “Quinn discusses a problematic issue within the Antifa Movement."
But it also provides a link to the Boston Antifa Facebook page where the original video is posted, and it is both real and laughably serious.
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That is some serious, industrial-strength insanity.
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..or some industrial strength tolling. There's also a Beverly Hills Antifa FB page that clearly is. Next up is Berkeley on April 15. Let's see if Antifa takes this issue seriously
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THAT is some w.i.e.r.d sh!t. After watching that and distancing myself for a bit from it, I can conclude that these people are a bunch of mad dogs and will be dealt with appropriately in the near future.
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Wonder if Soros knows of the perverted stuff he has been financing......
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He does and he is counting on it to bring down the Republic.
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Have to remember that Soros was a Nazi with his adopted father going around confiscating Jewish property. He's still proud of it today. These pervs are just useful idiots to him.
[Daily Caller] In a rare appearance on talk radio on Friday, Matt Drudge declared that President Trump "has saved the media."
"I’m getting a little bit nervous about the media situation. Do you know, the media was near death. The New York Times was hanging on the short hairs. Do you know Vanity Fair was going under. CNN barely had a fraction," Drudge said during an appearance on Michael Savage’s radio show.
"Trump has saved the media. Record, record ratings now because the opposition is consolidating. They’re following every bouncing ball. People actually believe that Trump is a Russian agent, this is the drugged ones."
Drudge, who has operated the Drudge Report since 1995, rarely makes public appearances, but he appeared on Savage’s show to celebrate the conservative host’s 75th birthday.
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.
[FRANCE24] In a dramatic week in Venezuela, the pro-government Supreme Court on Saturday revoked its controversial annulment of the opposition-led congress amid international condemnation and protests against President Nicolas Maduro.
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[Daily Caller] In a rare appearance on talk radio on Friday, Matt Drudge declared that President Trump "has saved the media."
