[news.com.au] A CANNIBAL caught scoffing a woman he beheaded has died in hospital after a police shoot out.
The Sun reports Aphiwe Mapekula, 23, collapsed in a hail of bullets with arm, leg and stomach injuries when police tried to arrest him at his home. He apparently ignored several warning shots as he continued to eat Thembisa Masumpa’s raw flesh. Stomach injuries? Ag, you'll spoil the meat !
Officers finally opened fire on him when he attacked them with a knife, police said.
Mapekula is said to have slit 35-year-old Thembisa’s throat and hacked off her head in Mount Frere, South Africa, on 9 September. His horrified mum called police after witnessing the gruesome slaughter. Sick of the Shahi Khana take-aways and beans on toast was he ?
But officers said he was tucking in to Thembisa’s raw flesh by the time they turned up. He then attacked them with a knife before being shot, said police Captain Edith Mjoko.
[DetroitNews] Not every immigrant proves capable of assimilating, and the Syrian-American family of Muhammed Altantawi is sadly typical of the failures. Except for the Medicaid fraud, which is not generally a possibility.
[Dhaka Tribune] A woman cut off a Jubo Dal leader’s penis after he allegedly tried to rape her at her house in Kaliganj of Gazipur early Saturday.
According to local sources, Oliullah, 45, a father of three children from Brahmangaon village at Boktarpur union council and also the Jubo Dal joint convenor of ward no 4 in the union, has long been sexually harassing the woman, a garment worker.
The woman said Oliullah went to her home around 2am on the day when her fisherman husband went to work at a nearby water-body.
The Jubo Dal leader shouted at her to open the door while she was sleeping. At one stage, he broke down the door, entered the room, and tried to rape her.
The woman cut off his penis with a blade she had managed to acquire earlier and would carry with her as he had harassed her on several occasions, she said.
Three months back, Oliullah had tried to drag her into a jungle while she was returning from her workplace at night, she said.
She made a complaint to the local UP member and reported the incident to his family members. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... rather than take proper steps, they scolded her.
Nurul Islam, the UP member, also said the Jubo Dal leader was a type of vagabond and his job was only to harass women.
"He tried to lure the victim several times with money into an illicit relation. But she rejected the proposal, complained to me, and informed his family members," he said.
"The woman might have taken the decision to amputate his penis after she failed to get justice," he added.
Alam Chand, officer-in-charge of Kaliganj cop shoppe, said the woman had spoken to the police about the incident.
"We will take action after getting a written complaint," the OC said.
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[Chicago Tribune] A woman police believe was pregnant was among five people killed and 13 maimed in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... shootings Friday into Saturday morning.
The woman was one of four victims slain in a rifle attack in the Brighton Park neighborhood Friday night, police said.
The quadruple homicide happened about 8:40 p.m. in the 4700 block of South Fairfield Avenue, police said.
Three men and a woman were inside a vehicle when someone inside a white SUV opened fire on them with a rifle, police said.
Responding coppers found their bodies inside the vehicle and they were pronounced dead on the scene.
The medical examiner's office on Saturday identified the dear departed as Joel Sandoval, 24; Miguel Sandoval, 27; Michelle Cano, 21; and Ida Arvizu, no age disclosed.
Chicago police front man Anthony Guglielmi said the woman was believed to be pregnant, but police won't know for sure until the autopsy.
Another fatal shooting Friday happened about 11:15 a.m. on the Southwest Side in the 6400 block of South Talman Avenue in the Marquette Park neighborhood, police said.
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Harry Dean Stanton, the shambling, craggy-face character actor with the deadpan voice who became a cult favorite through his memorable turns in “Paris, Texas,” ″Repo Man” and many other films and TV shows, died Friday at age 91.
Stanton died of natural causes at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his agent, John S. Kelly, told The Associated Press. Kelly gave no further details on the cause.
Never mistaken for a leading man, Stanton was an unforgettable presence to moviegoers, fellow actors and directors, who recognized that his quirky characterizations could lift even the most ordinary script. Roger Ebert once observed that “no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.”
He was widely loved around Hollywood, a drinker and smoker and straight talker with a million stories who palled around with Jack Nicholson and Kris Kristofferson among others and was a hero to such younger stars and brothers-in-partying as Rob Lowe and Emilio Estevez. “I don’t act like their father, I act like their friend,” he once told New York magazine.
Nicholson so liked Stanton’s name that he would find a way to work his initials, HDS, into a camera shot.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Police arrested 32 people in St Louis Friday after violent protests erupted over the acquittal of Jason Stockley
Black Lives Matter protesters stormed the city's streets and mayor's house setting fires and assaulting officers
One police officer had his jaw broken and another had his shoulder dislocated by angry 'agitators'
On Saturday, another 300 people stormed West County Center mall for the second day of demonstrations
Macy's closed its doors in fear of the crowd and the mall was temporarily shut down while police arrived
U2 cancelled its concert at The Dome in fear of fans' safety and is offering a refund to every ticket holder
Ed Sheeran also canceled his concert at the Scott Trade Center, which had been planned for Sunday
Stockley shot dead black drug dealer Anthony Smith in 2011 after a high speed car chase
He was charged with murder but a judge threw out the accusation on Friday after years of anticipation
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offering a refund to every ticket holder
"Ih ya wanta let us keep th money, Bono's hat will sure be grateful next time e has ta charter a G550 ta bring it home."
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Example 1 of 2: In court, decisions are deliberated for months, while on the street, decisions by officers must be made in milliseconds, and many cases, life or death decisions. I trust the courts. This black man was shot in the back, for good reason. You produce and gun, you have elected to die. Keep that in mind.
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Example 2 of 2: When police officers bend over backwards to work with you and you attack an armed officer they have a right to prevent you from taking control of the lethal inventory that they have on their belts immediately. You do not attack an officer who is trying to work with you. Period.
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There are also cases of clearly unjustified shootings periodically and in almost all cases, the victim or next of kin do get justice. The bottom line is, obey the police, after a court decision, respect the outcome of court decisions.
[Al Jazeera] Security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have killed at least 36 Burundian refugees during clashes over plans to send some of them home.
Maman Sidikou, the head of MONUSCO, the UN's peacekeeping mission in the country, said in a statement on Saturday that at least 36 refugees had been reported killed and more than 100 injured.
He called for a swift investigation and urged Congo's security forces to use force as a last resort only.
Josue Boji, a Democratic Republic of Congo interior ministry official, said troops had tried to disperse the refugees by "firing in the air but were overwhelmed" when the group responded by throwing stones during Friday's confrontation.
Police and soldiers opened fire as the refugees protested over the resettlement plan and tried to free some of their arrested compatriots in the town of Kamanyola in eastern Congo, sources told the Reuters news agency.
Activist Wendo Joel said the refugees had seized a weapon and killed a soldier, though that account was not confirmed by other sources.
A Burundian refugee told AFP news agency: "I saw people falling down, men, women and children who were completely unarmed."
Al Jazeera was unable to independently verify the death toll.
A local army spokesman, Dieudonne Kasereka, told Reuters there had been clashes between soldiers and refugees armed with knives and machetes, but that he did not know if there were any deaths.
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troops had tried to disperse the refugees by "firing in the air but were overwhelmed" when the group responded by throwing stones during Friday's confrontation. A Burundian refugee told AFP news agency: "I saw people falling down, men, women and children who were completely unarmed."
Don't bring stones to a gunfight. A stone can kill as well as a bullet if used appropriately, assholes
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Venezuela on Friday began listing the price of its oil in the Chinese yuan, following President Nicolas Maduro's announcement last week that he would rid the economy of the "US imperialist system."
The move was seen as a bid to weather US-imposed sanctions on the embattled country.
The country's petroleum ministry listed the week's closing price per barrel at 306.26 yuan on its website, equivalent to US$46.7, up from 300.91 yuan the week before.
But economist Cesar Aristimuno said the yuan figure had little meaning beyond reference value, "because at the end of the day, the market continues to be quoted in dollars."
Washington's tough new sanctions on Caracas bar US banks from trading in new bonds issued by the government or the state run oil company PDVSA. The goal is to restrict Venezuela's access to vital bond and equity markets.
The aim is to "deny the Maduro dictatorship a critical source of financing to maintain its illegitimate rule," the White House said. So Maduro is right about the Deep State and bankers waging an economic war on Venezuela.
Maduro railed that they amounted to a financial and economic blockade, as ratings agency Fitch downgraded Venezuela and warned default was now likelier.
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Makes you wonder if and how CITGO will keep it's head above water here in the US. (They're nominally the retail end of PDVSA, supposedly firewalled off when the difficulties began with Chavez.)
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Part of the equation is that socialist countries tend to fail. The old adage is that they do well until they run out of other people's money is true. For a socialist country to get cozy with a communist country (China is the second largest consumer of oil--about 12 bbl/day, half that of the U.S.) would indicate a certain amount of desperation. OPEC raped the U.S. for many years. Moreover, bad lefty policies in the U.S. allowed this to happen. During the past several years, fracking, oil shale extraction and the opening of oil fields in N. Dakota have eased the predatory pricing squeeze by OPEC. More recently, Trump has gone ahead with the Keystone pipeline.
An article that is a couple of years old although not too dated provides some interesting facts about these OPEC countries. Oil prices and budgets: The OPEC countries most at risk. Why are OPEC countries at risk when oil prices go down? Because these countries tend to be a single-product economy.
Good luck Venezuela with your new marriage (sarc).
A much-abbreviated follow-on article related to to Snowy's comment on Friday.
[OilPrice.com] Venezuela is now on the brink of total collapse. As you’ve seen before here in Oil & Energy Investor, national oil company PDVSA looms large in this unfolding crisis.
The focus is the company’s ability to pay bond interest due in two months. Doing so is crucial. But as of this morning, that prospect is dwindling. Along with it goes the ability of the central government to administer an entire population and avoid the country descending into outright civil war.
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Thanks, TW, oops, Pappy... (or both. I'm not sure my monitor is showing the hightligh color properly.)
The Chinese have about a thirty billion a month trade deficit with us, and part of the reason is because they're able to resell Venezuelan oil that cost them $ 10.00/bbl for 45.00/bbl up here. Unless they finished their refineries and they're using it for feedstock to make all the plastic stuff they sell us.
Be a noninterventionist if you want, but in deal-making terms, we're the patsies at the moment.
[Roads and Kingdoms] In the Suwalki Gap, the 64-mile border between Poland and Lithuania, tensions are high. This is the only border the Baltic states share with the rest of NATO. After Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, some fear that the three countries could be next. Taking the Suwalki Gap would cut them off from their European NATO allies.
The United States is sending an increasing number of soldiers to supplement their NATO allies in Central and Eastern Europe in response to potential Russian military expansion.
The region’s historic ethnic tensions could also be exploited, as demonstrated in Donbass, South Ossetia, Abkhazia in Georgia, and Transnistria in Moldova. The militarized environment created by the deployment of Russian land troops and the Russian Baltic Fleet in Kaliningrad is a strong deterrent to any attempt NATO might undertake to kick out Russia from the Baltic states and the Suwalki Gap, should the Russians invade the region.
I spent two weeks in the Suwalki Gap to get an early look at NATO’s response to the Russian deployment, which some analysts believe is there to stay.
[DAWN] A teenage domestic helper was found hanged inside a home in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Defence Housing Authority (DHA) on Saturday, with police and medical officials
The officials said Fatima, 17, was found hanged inside a bungalow located on Khayaban-e-Badban in DHA's Phase-V.
Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Clifton Dr Asad Malhi told Dawn that the dear departed had been working as a maid in the residence.
She had been living on the first floor of the house while her employers, a couple, resided on the ground floor.
She did not turn up in the morning to the lower floor as per her routine, and one of her employers found her hanging by a ceiling fain her room.
Her corpse was shifted to the Jinnah Post-Graduate Medical Centre for a post-mortem examination.
Dr Malhi said that, from the facts, it appeared to be a suicide case. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... he added that the police were still investigating the case from every possible angle.
The owner of the property, Syed Hasan Mazhar, said in his statement that the girl generally tended to wake up at around 11:30am. He said they had installed a bell on the first floor of the house where she lived and she tended to wake up with the bell.
Mazhar, who works at a cement factory located on Super Highway, said that he had been getting late for work on Saturday and had left home in his car in a hurry. He had travelled only a short distance when he received a phone call from his wife saying that she had gone to the first floor of the house and found the girl hanging from the ceiling fan.
The owner said he returned home, informed police about the incident and shifted the body to the JPMC for a post-mortem examination.
The post-mortem examination was carried out by Medico-Legal Officer Dr Noorunisa Channa.
The doctor, in her initial report, termed the incident a suicide as there were no apparent injury marks on the girl's body, a police officer said.
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... the doctor had reserved the cause of death pending the histopathological and chemical examiner’s report.
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[DAWN] Sehwan police on Saturday claimed to have tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! one of the main accused in the murder of Tania Khaskheli from the Darejo area of 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... Last Saturday ‐ according to Tania's father, Ghulam Qadir Khaskheli ‐ an influential wadera (feudal lord) of Jhangara Bajara town, Khan Noohani, along with his armed associates, had barged into the family's house and shot Tania dead.
The girl’s parents claimed that Khan had been pressing them to marry Tania to him, but they had turned down the proposal. They alleged that Khan had twice tried to kidnap the girl in the recent past.
On Saturday evening, they said, Khan, along with Maula Bukhsh Noohani and an unknown person, barged into their house and attempted to intimidate them with their weapons. They alleged that the gunnies tried to take the girl away, but on strong resistance put up by the family, Khan got furious and rubbed out Tania.
The family had said last Sunday that an FIR against Khan Noohani, Maula Bukhsh and the unknown person was lodged at the Jhangara Bajara cop shoppe, but the suspects were threatening them with dire consequences if the case was not withdrawn.
They had complained that police had not arrested the suspects immediately due to their political influence.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, along with Inspector General A.D. Khowaja, had on Friday visited the family and condoled Tania's death with her parents and other relatives.
The family and other residents of the neighbourhood told the CM that the area police were aware of the whereabouts of the killer but they did not lay hands on him as he was being protected by some influential figures of the area. He was informed that the murder and police’s reluctance to arrest the killer triggered a series of protests by civil society organizations in different parts of the province.
The CM had ordered the immediate arrest of the killer, as well the SHO of the area for his failure to act promptly to save her life.
The SHO was nabbed Friday evening.
Police have now said they have arrested Maula Bukhsh during a raid. The prime accused, Khan Noohani, remains on the lam.
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[Al Jazeera] Seven boys have been enjugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! in connection to a fire at a religious boarding school in Malaysia that killed 23 people, including 21 pupils, authorities said.
Kuala Lumpur police chief Amar Singh said on Saturday that the boys, aged 11 to 18, were rounded up after they were identified in CCTV footage from a neighbouring building that showed them near the school the night of the fire.
The pre-dawn blaze on Thursday at the three-story Darul Koran Ittifaqiyah "tahfiz" school blocked the lone exit to the dormitory on the top floor, trapping students behind barred windows. Two adults and 21 students, aged between 6 and 17, were killed.
"From our investigation, the motive behind the mischief was due to a misunderstanding after the suspects and some tahfiz students mocked each other a few days before the fire," Singh said during a televised news conference.
Singh said six of the seven suspects tested positive for drugs. Two of them were tossed into the calaboose before, one on charges of vehicle theft, another for rioting, he added.
He said it is believed that two cooking gas tanks were brought up to the top floor and used to start the fire, which spread rapidly and took firefighters an hour to extinguish.
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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.
[Chicago Tribune] A woman police believe was pregnant was among five people killed and 13 
