The Humane Society said on Wednesday a California slaughterhouse was using a range of torture including waterboarding to prod unfit animals into the slaughterhouse so they could be processed into food that may have ultimately ended up in school lunch programs. . . .
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But did the bovines give up actionable intelligence?
Retired Army Green Beret James T. (Smokey) Taylor got his court martial this weekend and came away feeling pretty good about it.
Taylor, at age 79, is one of the oldest members of Chapter XXXIII (The Larry Thorne Chapter) of the Special Forces Association. He was placed on trial by fellow Chapter XXXIII members under the charge of "failing to use a weapon of sufficient caliber" in the shooting of an intruder at his home in Knoxville , TN , in November.
The court martial, of course, was very much tongue in cheek. The event itself was deadly serious. Taylor had been awakened in the early morning hours of November 5, 2007,when an intruder broke into his home. He investigated the noises with one of his many weapons in hand.
"It was just after Halloween, on Monday morning at 4:30," Taylor said. I heard this commotion at the door and grabbed my fishing gun, a little .22 revolver, to see what was going on. I got to the front door and this fellow had ripped my security door out of its frame. He said, youre going to have to kill me. Im coming in."
When a warning to leave went unheeded, Taylor brought his .22 caliber pistol to bear and shot him right between the eyes. "I was about four feet away from him when I shot," Taylor said.
"Looking back now, Im glad he didnt die, but that boy had the hardest head Ive ever seen. The bullet bounced right off."
The impact knocked the would-be thief down momentarily. He crawled out of the house then got up and ran down the street. Taylor dialed 911 and Knoxville police apprehended the wounded man about 200 yards away, hiding in a hedgerow.
Complicating the case, as well as the court martial, the offender was released on bail but failed to appear for his court date.
Knoxville police said the man was homeless. They did not know his whereabouts or why he had been given bail. The charges brought against Taylor by his fellow Green Berets were considered to be serious.
He is a retired Special Forces Weapons Sergeant with extensive combat experience during the wars in Korea and Vietnam. "Charges were brought against him under the premise that he should have saved the county and taxpayers the expense of a trial," said Chapter XXXIII President Bill Long of Asheville , NC.
The trial was held at the Hampton Inn in Brevard, part of the groups regularly scheduled quarterly meeting. Long appointed a judge, Bert Bates, a defense counsel, Jim Hash, and a prosecutor, Charlie Ponds. All are retired Special Forces non-commissioned officers with extensive combat and weapons experience.
Ponds outlined the case against Taylor, emphasizing that the citizens of Knox County were going to be burdened with significant costs to again apprehend, and then prosecute and defend the would-be burglar.
"Proper choice of a larger caliber gun would have spared the citizens this financial burden," Ponds said, "while removing one bad guy from the streets for good. He could have used a .45 or .38. The .22 just wasnt big enough to get the job done."
Hash disagreed. He said Taylor had done the right thing in choosing to arm himself with a 22. "If hed used a .45 or something like that the round would have gone right through the perp, the wall, the neighbors wall and possibly injured some innocent child asleep in its bed. I believe the evidence shows that Smokey Taylor exercised excellent judgment in his choice of weapons. He clearly remains to this day an excellent weapons man."
Hash then floated a theory as to why the bullet bounced off the perps forehead. "He was victimized by old ammunition," he said, "just as he was in Korea and again in Vietnam , when his units were issued ammo left over from World War II."
Taylor said nothing in his own defense, choosing instead to allow his peers to debate the matter. The jury, consisting of all the members of the Chapter, discussed the merits of choosing a larger caliber weapon as well as the obvious benefits to society of permanently deleting the intruder so he would never again threaten any private citizen.
The other side of the coin, that of accidentally causing injury to a completely innocent citizen if a more powerful gun had been used, also gained considerable support.
Following testimony from both sides, Judge Bates determined the charges should be dismissed. The decision was met with a round of applause. In fact, there was strong sentiment expressed that Taylor should receive an award for not only choosing wisely in picking up the 22, but for the accuracy of his aim under difficult and dangerous conditions.
After the trial Taylor said the ammunition was indeed old and added the new information that the perp had soiled his pants as he crawled out the door.
"I would have had an even worse mess to clean up if it had gone through his forehead," Taylor said. "It was good for both of us that it didnt."
Meanwhile, back in Knox County, the word is out: Dont go messing with Smokey Taylor. He just bought a whole bunch of fresh ammo.
The city that popularized the fast food drive-thru has a new innovation: 24-hour medical marijuana vending machines.
Patients suffering from chronic pain, loss of appetite and other ailments that marijuana is said to alleviate can get their pot with a dose of convenience at the Herbal Nutrition Center, where a large machine will dole out the drug around the clock. "Convenient access, lower prices, safety, anonymity," inventor and owner Vincent Mehdizadeh said, extolling the benefits of the machine.
But federal drug agents say the invention may need unplugging. "Somebody owns (it), it's on a property and somebody fills it," said DEA Special Agent Jose Martinez. "Once we find out where it's at, we'll look into it and see if they're violating laws." In other news, the price of vending machine Coke has jumped to $120.
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Duuude, like, the machine, like, took my money and bogarted the stash! And then the Hostess Twinkie machine was out of order. Bummerrrr!
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Wow, man, like...medicinal. Do I, like, just, like, run my prescription through, like, the bill reader so everything's, like, cool or do I just show it to, like, the dood inside the machine?
The ba$+ard who did this needs to die. They could have at least waited until she she had been on the cover of Maxim or FHM. Click the link for more, err, "information". ;-P
Russia's most famous female bodyguard Anna Loginova has been killed after failing to prevent her own Porsche being carjacked.
The glamorous 29-year-old died from head injuries after clinging on to the door handle and being dragged along the street at high speed as the car screeched away.
"She suffered serious injuries and died at the scene," said a police spokesman.
Police believe that she was killed in a random carjacking and was not the victim of an attack based on her work for wealthy high-profile Russian clients.
Loginova ran an agency for female bodyguards, some trained by the ex-KGB, to give discreet protection to Moscow's billionaires and their wives and mistresses. But usually not at the same time. Unless they were lucky.
In a recent magazine interview, she insisted that she and her team of glamorous bodyguards gave better protection than the more traditional beefy male security men.
"I do think that a girl should be a girl, not a Terminator," she said. She posed semi-naked for a Moscow men's magazine to make it clear that she was feminine as well as good with a gun. What kind of gun?
She was highly respected for her bodyguard skills. "A normal man gets sick and tired of male bodyguards around him all the time," she said. Not really, but I'll bet the same idea pops into each of their heads the instant they see you. Except the male character in the idea is different in each case.
"In addition, many restaurants now do not allow a guard inside. They can come in and check everything but then they are asked to wait in the lobby.
"In contrast, you can take female bodyguards inside, she will sit down at the table and nobody would guess that she's a weapon herself - and can react appropriately in any dangerous situation." She's a bit over-tenacious, though.
She spoke of a recent carjacking incident in Moscow.
"I got out, locked the car and at that moment a man ran up and squeezed my hand with keys. I reacted immediately with a Jujitsu move, bending back his hand and hitting his face with my elbow.
"He did not expect such a reaction. The next moment, I took out my handgun but a Honda car passed by and he jumped in." Yelling "Wait a minute! Put me back! I think she likes me!"
Last year, 50 Porsche cars were stolen in Moscow, including 12 within the last two months. Only three were ever found. I'm sure parts of the rest are running around in plain view.
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Any guy regardless of training or background can get major Major MAJOR pissed off when friends, associates, and girlfriends etc. get whacked, espec for no reason or a poor reason, and even iff the are officially "an Enemy". GO TOO FAR WHEN MESSING WID MATTERS OF THE HEART.
James Lileks, buzz.mn I knew they weren't much for Republicans up that way, but sheesh!
Last year the City Council, which seems to think that running a city poorly qualifies them to run a circus well, passed an ordinance governing the treatment of elephants. Increased fees always a favorite and increased inspection. The show would go on. But as Council Member Ralph Remington put it in words we should all memorize Weve come a long way. But it can go just a little bit further.
So now the City Council Member Cam Gordon has proposed a new amendment to the ordinance, banning elephant rides. The reason? Public Safety. Not that Jumbo has ever tossed a kid. Not that anyones ever had a toe trod upon by an elephant or fallen off.
But it could happen:
"We could still have a great circus experience and a profitable one if we did without this act," said Gordon during last week's public safety and regulatory services committee meeting. "This would be a way to proactively avoid a horrible situation." . . .
. . . As for having a profitable circus, the Shriners say theyll seriously consider leaving the city if they cant have the rides, because they raise a lot of money. Apparently they are mistaken; we can only hope that the City Council, which surely has an intimate knowledge of circus economics, shares some tips and hints.
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Meteorites (or defunct spy satellites) could strike us at any time!
Hey Cammie, let's ban those, too!!!
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There is one, and only one time when elephants are not just dangerous, but extremely dangerous. That is when people try to mate them. For many years, Europe was averaging one human death each year while trying to mate elephants.
Ironically, the elephants are still friendly when they are trying to mate, just less likely to pay attention to their surroundings, like they typically do, having their minds on other things.
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Barb - that line's so old it started working again. I have a Goose Gossage++ moustache :-)
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Frank,
Every time somebody reads your comment your moustache gets bigger?
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I can sell them my patent (not pending) Elephant Repellent Device cheap. Low power consumption and 100% effective! It's kept elephants away from my home for many years.
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Pa. -- A Washington County woman is accused of locking her 10-year-old grandson in a feces-filled dog crate for about 90 minutes. It was for his good! He might have wanted a snack while he was in the cage . . . .
Police said 51-year-old Rhonda Lehman, of Washington, put the boy in the crate Saturday because the boy laced the family's drinks with lamp oil and household cleaner called "Bam." Next time, try Drano.
Lehman has custody of the boy, who told police he did it because "he was angry because he didn't get to go on a trip" last year, said Washington police Officer James Markley. It is possible the boy had been spiking the drinks for a while, authorities said. Family members became sick, but were not hospitalized. I'm sure he can be rehabilitated. Then he can babysit your children.
Police said Lehman also told a county agency if someone didn't come for the boy, she would bury him alive in the back yard. Lehman was charged with child endangerment and making terroristic threats. Next time, just threaten to bury him up to his neck, OK?
On Saturday, the boy was put in a 3-foot-by-4-foot plastic dog cage with only a small metal door for him to look out, Markley said. What, no rottweiler to keep him company?
The boy's 24-year-old brother, Michael McCreery, is charged with punching the youngster. Charged for not hitting him hard enough?
"When I asked the brother, I said, 'Why would you punch a 10-year-old in the eye?' he said, 'It's better than what I wanted to do to him,"' Markley said. Couldn't find any Drano?
Markley said the defendants told authorities they don't believe they did anything wrong. Grandma started it all with her stupid idea to go on a trip!
"They were very calm, like this was nothing," Markley said. Now this is the mark of true insanity!
The 10-year-old is now in the county's Children and Youth Services, which is treating him for mental health issues, authorities said. Good luck with that.
Lehman and McCreery remain at the Washington County Jail on $25,000 bail. Preliminary hearings are scheduled for Feb. 5.
Two options here:
1) Reset bail to something that they can barely afford even if all their loser friends and surviving family chip in. They will get out and will remove themselves from the gene pool. County can keep the bail money after they die. Negatives: It may take several months, might reproduce, might harm others, might be resisant to Drano by now.
2) Lock them up forever. Negatives: Expensive, might escape. Loser friends and family have money.
Internet outages disrupted business and personal usage across a wide swathe of the Middle East on Wednesday after an undersea cable in the Mediterranean was damaged, government officials and Internet service providers said.
In Cairo, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology said the cut in the international communications cable had led to a partial disruption of Internet services and other telecommunications across much of Egypt.
Emergency teams were quickly trying to find alternative routes, including satellite connections, to end the disruptions, Minister Tariq Kamel said. But service was still slow or nonexistent by late afternoon Wednesday.
A telecommunications expert at the Egyptian communications ministry, Rafaat Hindy, said the government was "engaged in efforts to try and overcome the consequences of the problem" but cautioned that "solving this could take days."
"Despite this being an international cable affecting many Gulf and Arab countries, we are closest to it and so we have a lot of responsibility," he said. "We are working as fast as we can."
Internet service also was disrupted in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, which markets itself as a top Mideast business and luxury tourist hub. Both Internet service providers said international telephone service was also affected.
One of the ISPs, DU, was completely down in the morning; browsing remained very slow even after DU restored Internet service by the afternoon.
DU attributed the disruption to a fault in "two international cable systems" in the Mediterranean Sea but gave no details.
An official who works in the customer care department of DU blamed a fault on a submarine cable located between Alexandria, Egypt, and Palermo, Italy.
It was not clear what caused the damage to the cable.
The official, who identified himself only as Hamed because he said he was not authorized to speak publicly, said he could not describe the technical fault but that engineers contracted by DU were working to solve the problem.
By early afternoon, the service was flooded with complaints and had found alternative routes but Hamed said "there is slowness while browsing on the Internet."
There was no total outage in Kuwait, but service was interrupted Tuesday and Wednesday. The Gulfnet International Company apologized in an e-mail Wednesday to its customers for the "degraded performance in Internet browsing."
In Saudi Arabia, some users said Internet was functioning fine but others said it was slow or totally down.
A staffer at a Saudi ISP said that they were told that a cable rupture was the cause of the problem, which began early Wednesday. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. Calls to Saudi Telecom went unanswered Wednesday afternoon, the start of the weekend in Saudi Arabia.
Users in Bahrain and Qatar also complained of slow Internet.
Associated Press Writer Barbara Surk contributed to this report from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
OK, I'll propose the first conspiracy theory that presses all the hot buttons in the area: W ordered Israel to tap into Mideast pr0n secret communications, but apparently the job was bungled.
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Something is not 'kosher' here. The internet by design was suppose to survive a nuke exchange. The network design was to skip around physical links or routers which went to the hereafter. Now one cable break shuts out the Mideast?
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The network is indeed designed to work around breaks. But the robustness and bandwidth of the surviving network is a function of the physical infrastructure which carries the packets of data.
'Internet' means 'between networks'. In most cases, the various networks that are linked together into the public internet have lots of cross connections. But there are places where traffic is routed through one or two big pipes, as across oceans. And how interconnected c.f. Egypt would be with other infrastructure is a function of cost and openness, both of them mitigating against the kind of infrastructure redundancy that north America, Europe and Asia enjoy.
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In addition, Egypt is probably the gateway for Europe-Mideast traffic via the Red Sea. Europe-Israel cables are not likely to go any further. Same for Leb cables not going to Syria and beyond.
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Nothing to see here. Go about your business. Never mind that new "repair box" on the sea floor
Gunmen who held more than 30 hostages inside a Venezuelan bank for over 24 hours negotiated their getaway in an ambulance Tuesday but were later stopped on a highway, where they surrendered. Five remaining hostages were freed as the four gunmen laid down their weapons and were arrested, Guarico state Gov. Eduardo Manuitt said. "This nightmare is over," Manuitt told state television.
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Gave them time for the drugs to wear off so they could come to their senses?
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IOn, DRUDGEREPORT > COLUMBIAN "BIN LADEN" WALKS STREETS AND SLUMS. MY READ - Article infers that Street Radicalism = a Grass-roots Revolution. Lower classes tired of pervasive poverty, "status quo", indignities, etc BEING "KEPT DOWN BY DA MAN"???
Denmark's national library is to risk re-opening an international political storm by housing the cartoon images of the prophet Muhammad that provoked violent convulsions throughout the Islamic world two years ago. The royal library in Copenhagen - founded in the 17th century by King Frederik III and home to many historic treasures - has declared the drawings to be of historic value and is trying to acquire them for "preservation purposes".
Around 100 people died in riots across the Muslim world as protests spread after the publication of the cartoons - one of which depicted Muhammad with a bomb in his turban - in numerous western newspapers in 2006. The disturbances led to Denmark's embassy in Damascus being burned and diplomatic missions in several other Muslim countries being attacked. The cartoons originally appeared in the Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper in 2005.
Jytte Kjaergaard, a spokeswoman for the library, said, "This is the obvious place to keep them because we have all the security measures in place. It would be very difficult for a private person to come in and sabotage them because to see them for research purposes you will need a letter of consent from your university professor. They will be treated like any rare book."
Kasem Said Ahmad, spokesman for the Danish Muslim Society, which headed the original campaign against the cartoons, called the library's decision a "provocation" but said his organisation would ignore it as part of its new strategy. "We will not be holding any demonstrations as we got nothing from the Danish courts when we tried to sue the newspapers. We will ignore all provocations in future." Hoorah for Danish courage!
Two Muslim women blocked from a Goteborg swimming pool for refusing to shed some of their clothing won more than 20,000 kronor (2,110; US$3,110) each in damages Tuesday. The Court of Appeal in Western Sweden, overruling an earlier lower court decision, ordered Goteborg to pay the woman damages and their legal costs for discriminating against them.
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Pay them in iranian play money and let them take it to the foreign exchange kiosk at the airport for extra laffs...
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Now have the judges bath and bath their children in a swiming pool contaminated by the germs brought by those women burkhas.
Hey-hey, ho-ho, the Marines in Berkeley have got to go.
That's the message from the Berkeley City Council, which voted 8-1 Tuesday night to tell the Marines that its Shattuck Avenue recruiting station "is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders."
In addition, the council voted to explore enforcing its law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation against the Marines, and officially encouraged the women's peace group Code Pink to impede the work of the Marines in the city by protesting in front of the station.
In a separate council item, the council voted 8-1 to give Code Pink a designated parking space in front of the recruiting station once a week for six months and a free sound permit for protesting once a week from noon to 4 p.m.
Councilman Gordon Wozniak voted no on both items.
The Marines have been in Berkeley for a little more than a year, having moved from Alameda in December of 2006. For about the past four months, Code Pink has been protesting in front of the station.
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Is this scrappleface? If not then these f*cking idiots in berkeley need to protest the U.S. congress - not the Corps. We didn't make the DA-DT policy - it's a fed mandate. Not that I personally think it's a bad policy.
"if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders."
-what you gonna do berkeley? Try to put us jarheads in the county hooskow & give us some sensitivity training? LOL.
"Free people sleep peacebly in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
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Code Pink is there every day? That's one way to identify the address for those seeking it... and encouragement to susceptible individuals to walk past them and in the door.
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"is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders."
uninvited? Too late. The marines go where the Command tells them to go. So, go ahead, try to get in thier way.
intruders? No one is an intruder when they are at home (Americans go anywhere they want to in America).
Code Pink? You expect these grunts to be shaking in thier boots from Code Pink? Too bad the Marines can not do to Code Pink what Iran did to Code Pink.
The Marines are not going any where, Berkely, because of thier motto:
The Few.
The Proud.
The Marines.
Semper Fidelis;
Always Faithful
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Sanctuary City? IFF I'm reading RIAN, etc correctly, PUTIN's anti-Nuke Terror FLEXIBLE RESPONSE DOCTRINE only requires that a [major/catastrophic]Nuke-WMD Terror event in Russ be proven to orginate from BERKELEY, CA USA, etc. via any [legit]Terror cell, thus requiring a RUSS RESPONSE = ATTACK VIA MISSLES +OR MOTHERLY COMMIE AIRBORNE/RR SPEC UNITS.
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MONTY PYTHON'S HOLY GRAIL > D *** NG IT MEN, RUN, RUN AWAY FROM THE RABBIT - THE WOMEN ARE ATTACKING AND THEY'VE GOT RUSS TANKS + CHINESE COPYRIGHT BEHIND THEM!
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Code Pink: former college girls so heinous that even drunk frat boys wouldn't screw them.
(If I was to make a biosketch of the avg code pinky I'd say they are latently heterosexual women w/lots of pent up sexual frustration w/the deep dark fantasy of doing military guys in uniform - prolly whey they're really hanging out at the RS once a week. Good hunting my fellow Marines - though I'd suggest you bring a razor)
ISLAMABAD: A British doctor was kidnapped for ransom from his house near Bhara Kahu police station on Monday. A police official told Daily Times that unidentified gunmen broke into Dr Davis house at Spring Valley on Ahmad Road. They held him and his Pakistani wife Dr Sabiha hostage as they robbed them of jewellery worth millions of rupees, the official said, and then drove off with Dr Davis. He said Dr Sabiha had said in the first information report (FIR) that the kidnappers had demanded Rs 50 million in ransom. Dr Sabiha and Dr Davis had married 30 years ago and had been living in Islamabad for several years, the official said. He said Dr Sabiha had reported the incident to the British High Commission.
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A heavy snowfall blanketed Jerusalem and the surrounding areas Tuesday night and was continuing to fall Wednesday morning. As expected, the Jerusalem municipality decided to cancel school in the capital for the day due to the slippery streets. University classes were also canceled, as well as kindergartens and preschools. School is also out in Gush Etzion, Ofra, Kochav Ya'acov, Tel Zion, Ma'ale Levona, Eli, Shilo and Beit El.
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Thank goodness for Gerbil Worming™!
Otherwise, it might get cold enough to snow in the normally warm Middle East, of all places.
Oh, wait....
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Pesky sun and coming ice ages. Al Gore should sue the sun and the earth for not following HIS plan for climate. After all, he's right and nature is wrong.
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I wonder if any of them half million Chinese trapped in blacked out train stations by the global warming massive snowstorms wouldn't mind a coupla patio heaters?
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Melbourne must be the patio heater capital of the world. Green voting, inner suburbs have whole streets where every second storefront is an eatery with a patio heater outside.
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ION, TOPIX/SPACE > SCIENTISTS DETECT NOVA EXPLOSION.
Does explain some, but not all, of the flashy space booms seen of late. Unfortunately, as much as "I want to believe", TU24 WAS NOT ALONE UP THERE DURING ITS PASSAGE, NOR WILL THE EARTH BE FREE THRU YEAR 2027 AS REPORTED. While the World = Global MSM had focused on TU24, it has ignored WD5 + MARS + SPACE BOOMS.
RUMORMILLNEWS > RUSSIANS: IMMINENT FURY [Chaos] IN THE COSMOS.
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RIAN > DAVOS-HOKKAIDO: CLIMATE MORE IMPORTANT THAN ECONOMIC CRISIS. July Summit agenda point - NEVER MIND ABOUT HELPING THE US = US ECONOMY/ PROBLEMS as US made its own bed.
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.
Gunmen who held more than 30 hostages inside a Venezuelan bank for over 24 hours negotiated their getaway in an ambulance Tuesday but were later stopped on a highway, where they surrendered. Five remaining hostages were freed as the four gunmen laid down their weapons and were arrested, Guarico state Gov. Eduardo Manuitt said. "This nightmare is over," Manuitt told state television.
