[NYPOST] Veteran homicide Sherlocks in New York and Washington, DC, on Monday questioned the way local and federal authorities in Texas handled the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. "Hmmm... Dead. Beaten to death."
"There's a hammer in his hand, chief!"
"Okay. Suicide, then."
"It's not unreasonable to ask for his appointment with Doctor Quincy in this case, particularly knowing who he is," retired Brooklyn homicide Detective Patricia Tufo told The Post.
"He's not at home. There are no witnesses to his death, and there was no reported explanation for why a pillow is over his head," Tufo said. "So I think under the circumstances it's not unreasonable to request an autopsy. Despite the fact that he has pre-existing ailments and the fact that he's almost 80 years old, you want to be sure that it's not something other than natural causes."
Bill Ritchie, a retired deputy chief and former head of criminal investigations for the DC police, said he was dumbstruck when he learned that no autopsy would be performed.
"I took a look at the report and I almost fell out of my chair," Ritchie told The Post from his home in Maryland.
"I used to be an instructor in the homicide school. Every death investigation you are handling, you consider it a homicide until the investigation proves otherwise," Ritchie said.
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Anybody with a grain of sense would question the lack of an autopsy. Do Supreme Court Justice's dead bodies have rights any white man is bound to respect? /sarc
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IIRC, ordering an autopsy is at the discretion of the coroner or similar local official. The major historic policy goal of the institution was to keep people from getting away with murder. Family objections don't matter.
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He was almost 80, overweight, not 'fit-looking' and supposedly had a history of cardiac issues; if he was anybody else no one would even consider an autopsy.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a veteran Egyptian diplomat who helped negotiate his country's landmark peace deal with Israel but then clashed with the United States when he served a single term as U.N. secretary-general, has died. He was 93.
Boutros-Ghali, the scion of a prominent Egyptian Christian political family, was the first U.N. chief from the African continent. He stepped into the post in 1992 at a time of dramatic world changes, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of the Cold War and the beginning of a unipolar era dominated by the United States.
But after four years of frictions with the Clinton administration, the United States blocked his renewal in the post in 1996, making him the only U.N. secretary-general to serve a single term. He was replaced by Ghanaian Kofi Annan ...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo... The current president of the U.N. Security Council, Venezuelan Ambassador Rafael Ramirez, announced Boutros-Ghali's death at the start of a session Tuesday on Yemen's humanitarian crisis. The 15 council members stood in a silent tribute.
Boutros-Ghhali died Tuesday at a Cairo hospital, Egypt's state news agency said. ... and if you can't believe the state news agency who can you believe? He had been admitted to the hospital after suffering a broken pelvis, the Al-Ahram newspaper reported on Thursday.
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only the crickets remember him
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[BLOOMBERG] Amid a resurgence in the pace of unaccompanied migrant children crossing the U.S. border, President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... is facing angry opposition as he searches for places to house them temporarily.
The administration is attempting to assemble a network of shelters on military bases and other federal facilities to lodge thousands of children
...mostly boys aged 15-19 years?
awaiting immigration proceedings after fleeing violence in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. That's hit a nerve in communities, some in crucial presidential swing states such as Colorado and Florida, where potential facilities were announced without community input and later scrapped.
"I don't want a military base to be an orphanage," said Veronica Kemeny, president of the Republican Veterans of Florida, who lives in Panama City near an Air Force Base that was named as a potential shelter.
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Put the first several hundred into the White House. Then a 1000 or so into the US capital building. Have our members of Congress take 5 each into their personal households. Federal judges can also pitch in.
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OTOH see LUCIANNE > [CNS.com] USDHS CHIEF: OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WORKING WID UN TO MAKE IT EASY FOR CENTRAL AMERICANS TO GET REFUGEE STATUS IN THE US.
Welcome to OWG + the NORTH AMERICAN UNION [NAU].
The focii is apparently now at NAU Member-State's MEXICO's borders wid the Lower Americas, no longer ala Mexcio's border wid Texas or SW USA.
HOW DO I KNOW, YOU ASK, WEHELL LESSIRREE ...
* E.G. NATIONAL INTEREST > US SHOULD FOCUS ON ITS OWN HEMISPHERE.
A PCorrect-Deniable way of saying the US will restrict itself to CONUS-NORAM-N-ONLY-CONUS-NORAM + peripherals/littorals???
Espec iff the US unilaterally or voluntarily gives up 1/2 of the Pacific + 1/2 of the Atlantic to its Co-Superpower Siblings leading their particular OWG Global Fed Union(s).
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..fleeing violence in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras..
Shall we compare body counts with Chicago, St Louis, DC, et al?
Of course I can understand the failure to grasp the question given the continuous and ongoing Permanent Party Propaganda Machine's efforts to suppress real news and information.
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Not Nome, Raj, what did they deserve to receive all these people?
How about Chicago, Detroit, Flint, DC, White House, Capitol Bldg, Congress Critters homes? There are consequences. Pres and Congress need to feel the pain.
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What AH and Paul said.
In spades.
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The prospect of higher-than-expected costs for high-speed rail construction in Fresno and Madera counties is prompting the California High-Speed Rail Authority to consider a big change in its allowance for potential cost overruns.
"At this time, we are forecasting a need to increase the contingency by about $150 million" for Construction Package 1, the first 29-mile segment from Fresno to Madera, agency risk manager Jon Tapping told the authority's board members at their meeting Tuesday in Sacramento. That's on top of the original $160 million contingency allowance that was established for the $1 billion contract awarded in 2013 to Tutor Perini/Zachry/Parsons, the prime contractor for the work. This "train from nowhere to nowhere" is a money pit that will never succeed and violates all ballot promises that got it approved. Jerry Brown is a sleazy dirtbag
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on the bright side, the failure of this project to achieve cost control and the pitiful ridership they will have after operation begins may actually end or, at least deeply blunt, the high speed rail obsession among many politicos in this country
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Center for Public Integrity:
Chairman and CEO Ronald Tutor and billionaire investor Richard Blum, who together own investment groups that hold 75 percent of Perini's voting stock, control the company. Blum is the husband of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
In addition to Perini, Tutor and Blum conduct a great deal of business through another company called Tutor-Saliba. Among that company's largest projects is the Los Angeles subway system.
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...au contraire, too many believe in the Magic Money Tree(tm). Only when it all disappears do they sometimes grasp the need for fiduciary responsibilities.
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I said long ago this is just a money transfer to California in return for political favors. This project will never pay for itself. If things keep going the way they are going, Mexico will have themselves the best train in the world in a while. :-)
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the initial piece of construction will cost $1B (at least) and not result in any actual high speed operation (that has to wait until many years later)
it will, however, allow for slightly faster Amtrak service saving about 3000 passengers per day about 5 to 10 minutes on their way between Bakersfield and Stockton (most passengers go on to either Sacramento or SF).
at that point it will be difficult for any politicos to defend
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That only sounds like a good deal if I have an uncle in the CA senate.
[BREITBART] At a Monday campaign event at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada, Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Timothy Pickering ... barked like a dog to hammer home the point that Republicans are lying about the cause of the Great Recession.
She blasted Republicans for claiming that the "Great Recession was caused by too much regulation on Wall Street." Clinton said one of her "favorite, favorite political ads of all time was a radio ad in rural Arkansas where the announcer said, 'wouldn't it be great if somebody running for office said something, we could have an immediate reaction whether it is true or not? Well, we've trained this dog. And the dog--if it's not true, he's going to bark.'"
"And the dog was barking on the radio," Clinton said. "And so people were, like, barking at each other for days after that."
Clinton then said, "I've got to figure out how we can do that with the Republicans. We need to get that dog and follow 'em around. And every time they say these things like, 'oh, the Great Recession was caused by too much regulation,' Arf! Arf! Arf! Arf!"
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Being president, Mr. Obama said, “requires being able to work with leaders around the world in a way that reflects the importance of the office and gives people confidence that you know the facts, and you know their names, and you know where they are on a map.”
Yeah, and besides that, Hillary Clinton is the only (serious) candidate who can bark at world leaders like a poodle.
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Well that will certainly give the Trumpbots a jolt. Gosh, it's almost as if the O-Team wants Trump to win the SC primary? Nahh...that would be mean Obama acts by political calculation.
[BLOOMBERG] The former U.S. Treasury official who led the 2008 bailout program for the nation's biggest banks says in his new role at the Federal Reserve that Congress and regulators should consider breaking them up to protect the financial system from another crisis. If they're "single points of failure," then break them into redundant systems. Teddy Roosevelt had that idea, but I guess the bigger the company the more milk's in the donation udder.
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari, speaking Tuesday in Washington, said his regional Fed bank will study ways to toughen U.S. banking laws to prevent another financial crisis.
Regulators should consider options including breaking up the nation's largest financial institutions, loading them up with "so much capital that they virtually can't fail" and taxing leverage to make the system safer, he said. Tougher oversight will require new legislation, he added.
"The biggest banks are still too big to fail and continue to pose a significant risk to our economy," Kashkari, who managed the U.S. Treasury's $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program for rescuing banks in the crisis, said in his remarks. It was his first public speech since joining the Fed on Jan. 1 as its newest policy maker.
While Kashkari's position fits with populist sentiment that has driven the rise of presidential candidates including Democrat Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... , it's at odds with top Fed leaders including Chair Janet Yellen, who isn't calling for dramatic steps such as breaking up large banks. Such changes would also face a steep uphill battle to adoption by the Republican majority in Congress, which wants to roll back parts of the Dodd-Frank financial law passed in 2010, rather than go further as Kashkari proposes.
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8 years too late and many $trillions too short.
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.
[NYPOST] Veteran homicide 
...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...
[BLOOMBERG] Amid a resurgence in the pace of unaccompanied migrant children crossing the U.S. border, President 
Hillary Clinton
[BLOOMBERG] The former U.S. Treasury official who led the 2008 bailout program for the nation's biggest banks says in his new role at the Federal Reserve that Congress and regulators should consider breaking them up to protect the financial system from another crisis.
