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Cheer up, Greenpeas dudes and dudettes! Even though Murmansk is at 69 degrees North latitude, Global Warming will soon render it a tropical paradise. Lotsa nice beachfront. All praise the Goreacle!
This reeks of "too good to check," but Greenfield seems to be playing it straight. The clip looks like something you'd see on on overnight TV in a country ruled by pro wrestling promoters. Am I missing the joke? Are things this weird over there? Officially, I mean? Context, please!
[frontpagemag.com] Hajj Abd Al-Nabi: I am the executioner of the Arab Republic of Egypt. I hold the rank of chief warrant officer in the police and the prison authority. I am Egypts executioner, responsible for carrying out the death penalty.
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When I was young about 13 or 14 years old the dry Ismailiya Canal in Shubra Al-Kheima still had water in it. My hobby was to catch a cat, to place a rope around its neck, to strangle it, and throw it into the water. I would get hold of any animal even dogs. I would strangle these animals and throw them into the water even dogs.
Rat-faced hack - a taste:
Whether Jarrett's influence is all too real or exaggerated is unknowable. What is known is the extent to which she has long been a peerless enabler of Barack Obama's inflated opinion of himself. Consider this quote from New Yorker editor David Remnick's interview with her for his 2010 book The Bridge.
"I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. . . . He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability -- the extraordinary, uncanny ability -- to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. . . . So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. . . . He's been bored to death his whole life. He's just too talented to do what ordinary people do."
Up against a court flatterer of that caliber it's no surprise that Jarrett has outlasted almost everyone who was in Obama's original White House team -- from chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to political guru David Axelrod to Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. All are known to have crossed her, and all are gone. As one former Obama aide once told me: "Valerie is 'She Who Must Not be Challenged.'"
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Sounds like evil vizier flattering a dumb kalif from 1001 night.
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He knows exactly how smart he is. . . . He knows how perceptive he is
Excuse me. I just threw up in my mouth a little. The bit about He knows what a good reader of people he is.", that I can believe. It is a trait every con man needs.
In what is thought to be the first such discovery, Greater Manchester Police officers found a plastic trigger (top image) and clip capable of holding bullets, which they believe had been 3D-printed using a MakerBot Replicator 2 that was also discovered at the property.
If verified, the discovery "demonstrates that organised crime groups are acquiring technology that can be bought on the high street to produce the next generation of weapons," said detective inspector Chris Mossop of the city's organised crime unit.
Update: Greater Manchester Police issued a new statement following these claims after the 3D-printing community pointed out they may be harmless printer upgrade parts.
"This is a really significant discovery for Greater Manchester Police," said Mossop. "In theory, the technology essentially allows offenders to produce their own guns in the privacy of their own home, which they can then supply to the criminal gangs who are causing such misery in our communities. Because they are also plastic and can avoid X-ray detection, it makes them easy to conceal and smuggle."
Forensic experts are analysing whether the parts found could be used to make a working weapon, but Greater Manchester Police already believe this is the first discovery of 3D-printed gun parts in the UK. quoting a Makerbot expert
Ok, this is kinda messed up. The top image looks more like an extruder upgrade to me, and the bottom "3D clip" is a dead ringer for a filament spool holder - the T-shaped bit of it is the give-away.
Oh wow.
This "trigger" is plainly an extruder idler tension arm. I totally agree with you about the spool holder thing too.
I've printed that extruder upgrade myself.
Well.. The damage is done. Makers are criminals.
The 3rd picture was of a MakerBot Replicator 2 (couldn't tell but looked like the single-extruder, not 2X) so it wouldn't be printing for long without the upgrade, and lots of 3rd party plastic spools won't fit on the MBI holder.
Detailed map showing where "gun" parts were found pic.twitter.com/dIkVJErB1F
I can see the rap where this is heading: "only authorized and licensed persons are able to legally make things..."
source data for that "trigger" http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:53125
They've updated their FB page with a cagey response of "We need to test these more to see if they are gun parts". Their main news page remains the same at the moment.
[Euronews] There were just 10 seconds between US police spotting a teenager with what they thought was a rifle and opening fire on him, it's emerged.
The drama unfolded as Andy Lopez Cruz, 13, was walking in a field on his way to a friend's house in Santa Rosa, California.
Police said they called for him to drop what turned out to be a toy replica gun, before firing several rounds from their handguns. He died at the scene.
Now police investigating the shooting have revealed a timeline of events. There were 10 seconds between officers spotting the boy and opening fire and a further 16 seconds before medical assistance was called.
A post-mortem has revealed seven bullets were lodged within the boy's body.
The officers involved in the shooting have been placed on "administrative leave". Who are they? What are their names? Why is the government and press not naming them? If I mistakenly shot a 13 year old boy my name and photo would be all over the news.
The tragedy has reignited calls in the community for creation of civilian review boards to examine such incidents.
"People have to do something," said Elbert Howard, a founding member of the Police Accountability Clinic and Helpline of Sonoma County. "He's a child, and he had a toy. I see that as an overreaction to shoot him down."
An advisory panel of the US Civil Rights Commission urged Sonoma County to create civilian-review boards in 2000 following eight fatal officer-involved shootings in less than three years, but that recommendation went unheeded.
As many as 200 mourners gathered on Thursday around a makeshift memorial consisting of flowers, balloons, teddy bears and pictures of the boy at the site of the shooting. Some held candles and signs that said: "What a tragedy, what a travesty."
Friends and family have described the boy as a well-liked eighth-grader who played the trumpet and basketball and had a good sense of humour.
I believe this ran previously. An external perspective on our out of control Police State.
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A post-mortem has revealed seven bullets were lodged within the boy's body
Someone is getting better at putting rounds on target versus many previous shootings (see-NYC shooting hitting bystanders). That said, I'm interested in the entry point and angle. Was he down and someone felt the need to deliver a 'coup de grace'?
There were 10 seconds between officers spotting the boy and opening fire
De facto shot first, ask questions later. If they had done this in uniform in Afghanistan, they'd most likely be facing a courts martial these days. Past time to rig officers with video that can't be tampered with.
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Ah, my home town and current residence. I'll try to answer any questions. The area of town this occurred in has been traditionally a troubled area, with gang violence the main irritant, and the drugs that go along with it. Not too long ago, there was a major pot raid in this exact neighborhood. So many houses were growing that the smell was easily detected just walking down the streets. So the area itself has its history. Recently, the area has been undergoing some a real turn around with the addition of Elsie Allen High School and community infrastructure. All of which has attracted a large influx of recent "immigrants". What was a small, troubled area is now a much more populated, troubled area.
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#3 is correct - no orange tip. The photos they have of the toy could be of a real gun. He also had a toy handgun in his waistband.
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Thanks for the background info Rex, as there are neighborhoods where 13 YOs are dangerous.
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The Senior Officer (more than 20 years) engaged. All they saw was an AK with feet and the barrel was raised toward the Officers. This is unfortunate, but sounds like they did what they thought they had to.
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I'm afraid I agree that this looks like a proper use of force for the Police.
I don't care who you are, I don't care what language you speak, or even if you are deaf, nor what country you are in. When multiple people in police uniforms and wearing badges are pointing weapons at you, it's pretty much wise to drop anything you are holding, slowly raise your hands with fingers spread and gently drop to your knees and cross your feet at the ankles.
Let the lawyers sort it out later - because right now Officer Friendly is NOT feeling friendly and is seeing WHATEVER you have in your hands as a threat.
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You don't fire unless fired upon.
sorry, but that's just plain dumb - and only works for lucky people. Others find absorbing that first bullet a little problematic. You point a gun at a cop, who likely doesn't have a platoon also aiming at the perp, and he's within his rights to take you down
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Only firing when fired upon will lead to a lot more dead cops.
If the toy looked real, if the boy didn't drop the weapon when told, if he made a move towards the police and in a gang filled area, the cops had every right to drop him.
Little hint to those on the other end. Just do what the cop with the drawn gun says. It ain't hard and it ain't rocket science.
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I don't think Whuck Forkbeard5327 cares about the safety of the cops, bystanders. It's all about emotion and "why can't you just wing him - like on TV?"
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Way back when Saturday Night Live was remotely funny, during the start of the Afghan War, they had a skit where a reporter asked "Donald Rumsfeld" (played by Darrel Hammond) "The Taliban shot at US troops and missed, but the US troops shot back anyway. Is that fair?"
This seems to be the attitude a lot of people have: bad guys get to take the first shot. And maybe a second if they miss.
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[An Nahar] Ten South Sudanese soldiers were imprisoned for human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... abuses perpetrated during a 2012 campaign to disarm fighters from warring communities, an army front man said Friday.
The soldiers were tried before a military court and will be "imprisoned from two to four years" for their role in abuses committed in the troubled eastern state of Jonglei, said front man Philip Aguer, without specifying exact charges.
Three others who are on trial for murder are awaiting the decision of President Salva Kiir as to whether they will be put to death as requested by the military court, he said.
Twenty more suspects are still being investigated, he added.
Since winning independence in 2011, the South Sudanese military has led campaigns against well-armed community factions but have themselves been accused of murder, rape and human rights violations, rights groups say.
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[An Nahar] An elderly Australian woman lay dead for months in her home as her adult daughter, who apparently used air freshener to mask the smell, fraudulently accessed her bank accounts, police said Friday.
The body of the 83-year-old was found in the bedroom of her Sydney home a week ago, but a post-mortem suggested she had been dead for months.
Her 48-year-old daughter, receptionist Melissa Peacock, who was believed to be her primary carer, was not at the premises. On Thursday she was discovered at a luxury hotel in central Sydney and locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! , police said.
"She was arrested and charged with failing to report a death and dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception," they said in a statement.
"Police will allege the woman had been fraudulently accessing and obtaining money from her deceased mother's bank accounts on a number of occasions."
A Sydney court on Friday heard that Peacock told police her mother Noreen died on July 28 and that after finding the body she walked from the bedroom, shut the door and had not re-entered since, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
But the court was told forensic evidence indicated attempts were made to keep the room clean after the woman's death, including changing the sheets and using air freshener to mask the smell, the report said.
The cause of death is not yet known, but a preliminary autopsy suggested she may have died from hypothermia.
Peacock, who is accused of using her mother's money to pay for her accommodation at luxury Sydney hotels, quit her job in July and all her own bank accounts were overdrawn, the Herald added.
She remains in jug pending a bail hearing on Monday.
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Um. Wouldn't she have been legally entitled to inherit her mother's assets? Or is this another case of concealing the body to continue collecting said body's social security checks.
[Al Ahram] Tunisia's Islamist premier Ali Larayedh made a written pledge to step down in a last-ditch bid to rescue crisis talks on Friday that the opposition was threatening to boycott.
The national dialogue aims to end months of political deadlock between the government and the mainly secular opposition that has paralysed Tunisia's political transition nearly three years after the January 2011 overthrow of veteran strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Amid growing doubts that the opposition would attend a new attempt to launch the negotiations on Friday, Prime Minister Ali Larayedh sent a written commitment to mediators that his government would resign, his ruling Islamist party Ennahda said.
The pledge drew a positive initial reaction from opposition members, although an official reaction had yet to be announced.
Fadhel Mahfoudh, president of the bar association that is helping mediate the crisis, said he thought the national dialogue could begin later on Friday following a delay of several hours.
Earlier efforts to launch the talks on October 5 and 23 failed, most recently after a statement by Larayedh failed to satisfy opposition demands.
"Last night on television, Tunisia's prime minister reiterated his government's pledge to step down according to the quartet roadmap, following the implementation of the preceding milestones in the roadmap," Ennahda said on Friday.
"A signed statement of the same pledge has been sent to the quartet hosting the national dialogue."
The opposition has previously refused to join the talks until Larayedh gives a "clear and explicit" undertaking that his government will step down within three weeks of the dialogue's launch.
"Personally speaking, I think the written commitment responds to the expectations of (opposition coalition) the National Salvation Front and the dialogue should be able to start," Mongi Ellouze, a member of the opposition tasked with examining Larayedh's latest proposal, told AFP.
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North Korea appears to have been digging two new tunnels at a nuclear test site in Punggye-ri, North Hamgyong Province since May, sparking fears that it is preparing for another nuclear test.
Specialist website 38 North, which is run by Johns Hopkins University, said it discovered two new tunnel entrances and a mound of earth while analyzing satellite pictures of the test site taken on Wednesday. The images also show that a management/surveillance building was built near the test site and the nearby ground leveled. 38 North expects the tunneling work to take about a year.
Prof. Nam Sung-wook of Korea University said, "It seems that the North is using the Punggye-ri test site as a means to pressure the U.S. into coming to the dialogue table."
But a South Korean military source denied that there are signs that the North is preparing for another nuclear test.
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A Pakistani court extended the custody of former dictator Pervez Musharraf on Friday, dampening hopes he would be able to leave the country any time soon following months under house arrest and legal wrangling over his fate.
Musharraf was arrested two weeks ago on charges related a 2007 raid on a radical mosque - just as his lawyer announced the former ruler was free to leave the country after being granted bail in another, unrelated case.
"The judicial magistrate extended the custody of Pervez Musharraf till October 29," Iftikhar Chattha, an investigation officer, told Reuters, adding that the investigation had not yet finished.
Musharraf seized power in a 1999 coup but was forced into exile nine years later after a showdown with the judiciary. He returned to Pakistan this year to contest May elections but was barred from standing by a flurry of court cases.
The arrest of Musharraf - a former army chief - was unprecedented in a country ruled by the powerful military for more than half of its life.
Despite his arrest, Musharraf is not being held in a jail with common criminals. Friday's hearing was held at his villa on the outskirts of Islamabad. The house has been declared a sub-jail by the authorities.
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[An Nahar] The Sudanese government has agreed to let United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... workers vaccinate tens of thousands of children against 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... in the violence-wracked South Kordofan and Blue Nile states, the world body said Thursday.
United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan Ali al-Zaatari said the vaccination campaign would begin on November 5.
Although Sudan was recently declared polio free, the virus has reappeared in east Africa.
South Kordofan and Blue Nile are of "particular concern," the United Nations said, because no polio vaccination programs have taken place in areas controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement ? North (SPLM-N) since the rebels and the Sudanese government went to war in 2011.
The U.N. says a million people are affected by the violence.
Two weeks ago, the U.N. Security Council had urged Khartoum and the rebels to agree to allow vaccinations to go forward in the two troubled states, saying the health and livelihood of 165,000 children aged five and younger was at stake.
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[An Nahar] Tensions surged on Friday in the Ein el-Hellhole Paleostinian refugee camp after a Fatah member was rubbed out by unknown gunnies, state-run National News Agency reported.
"The Ein el-Hellhole camp is witnessing a state of caution and anticipation amid the closure of all institutions and shops, after Fatah member Musaad Hjeir, a member of the camp's security committee, was shot in the al-Fawqani Street area in the camp," NNA said.
"Hjeir died of his wounds at the Labib Medical Center hospital in Sidon after he was critically injured in the head," the agency added.
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seal it off and let them kill each other
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Doesn't sound like he was very good at his job...
[Al Ahram] The corpse count from five days of festivities in Leb's northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... between supporters and opponents of the Syrian regime has climbed to six, a security official said Friday.
The latest casualty was a 22-year-old mother of two, who died from gunshot wounds she suffered on Thursday, he told AFP on condition of anonymity, adding that another 49 people have been maimed. Sunni and Alawite gunnies have been fighting in the Bab al-Tebbaneh and Jabal Mohsen districts of Tripoli since Monday and were still exchanging gunfire on Friday afternoon.
The Lebanese army meanwhile set up barricades to separate them. The fighting broke out Monday while an interview with Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... was being aired on television.
Residents of Bab al-Tebbaneh support the anti-Assad revolt, while those in Jabal Mohsen back Assad, and both sides have fought frequently since the Syrian conflict erupted in March 2011.
The latest fighting has prompted residents to flee the impoverished neighbourhoods while schools and universities have been closed in Tripoli since mid-week.
Leb is deeply divided into pro- and anti-Damascus camps.
The division has widened since Lebanese Shiite Death Eater group Hezbollah admitted in May it was sending fighters into Syria to support Assad's troops.
Small radical Sunni organizations have also sent men across the border to fight alongside the rebels.
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[Dawn] While not denying explicitly that the previous government had endorsed drone attacks by the US, the Foreign Office on Thursday chose to speak only about the current administration, saying the government's stance against drone attacks was very clear.
"Whatever understandings there may or may not have been in the past, the present government has been very clear regarding its policy on the issue," Foreign Office front man Aizaz Chaudhry said while responding to a question regarding a Washington Post report that Pakistain government had been on board with regard to drone attacks, at least during the four-year period from 2007 to 2011.
The Post report said secret diplomatic memos and CIA documents leaked to it suggested a "secret arrangement" between the two countries on drone attacks.
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[Shabelle] Abdukadir Mohammed Abdukadir, a senior operative from the Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... , who was the target of an unsuccessful raid by US special forces last month, travelled to London in 2007, the BBC has learned.
The man, widely known as Ikrima, also applied, unsuccessfully, for asylum in Norway.
He is linked to a number of alleged terror plots in Kenya, one involving Samantha Lewthwaite, the British widow of one of the jacket wallahs who attacked the London transport system in 2005.
The only pictures we have of Ikrima show him as a smiling immigrant in Norway.
Taken, it is thought around 2005, a year after he moved to Scandinavia, he appears happy in his new rural Scandinavian home.
In 2008, he left for Somalia, where he is now thought to be a senior recruiter of imported muscle, and a possible link between al-Shabaab in Somalia and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen.
Smoking marijuana
How did this transformation occur?
In Eastleigh, a district of the Kenyan capital Nairobi with a large Somali population, we met "Haji".
Haji is not his real name, he wants to remain anonymous. He is a former al-Shabaab fighter, and he knew Ikrima well.
"He came from Mombasa with his family," he says. "His family were middle class, a very virtuous family."
As teenagers, Haji and Ikrima would hang out together in Eastleigh, smoking marijuana and chewing the stimulant, khat.
In 2004 Ikrima moved to Norway, and the pair lost touch. Four years later, Haji joined al-Shabaab. When he got to Mogadishu, he was surprised to be reunited with his old friend.
"When I met him, I saw that he had changed. We used to play, we used to hug each other, whenever we met, [now] there was nothing like that.
"The guy has changed, totally changed.
"This guy called Ikrima was never on the battle ground, never on the frontline. But the guy was a strategist. He plans. He plans so extreme that, you know, those with him they say: 'Oh, that is too much, Ikrima.'"
'Awakening process'
Haji says Ikrima was aloof, keeping company mainly with al-Shabaab's imported muscle, who he says got preferential treatment in the organization.
He does not know where his former friend was recruited, whether it was in Norway or Somalia, or during a visit to London in early 2007.
Haji's own recruitment began in the same year. A local preacher had gone around Eastleigh targeting young, unemployed men.
"That was the time of the awakening process in Iraq," he says.
"And then all of a sudden [the preacher] had these jihadist videos, [showing] how the Moslems are being killed, being raped.
"He said: 'Now the war is coming to our ancestral lands. It's our obligation to defend it.'
And the preacher said: 'I'm providing you with wages, allowances, salaries, maybe even if you like, to get married.'
And he said: 'I'm providing you with wages, allowances, salaries, maybe even if you like, to get married.'"
'Ashamed of my actions'
Haji says the preacher promised him $1,000 (£600) per month. But when he got to Somalia, the money never materialised. He never got paid.
After three years, Haji became disillusioned with life as a jihadi.
He fled al-Shabaab and returned to Kenya. Of 14 young recruits from his neighbourhood, he says that he is the only one who made it back.
Looking back, Haji regrets his time with al-Shabaab.
"What a fool I was. Now I am feeling ashamed of my actions. Why did I waste all that time, when I could do something better in life?"
Ikrima, meanwhile, is thought to be still in Somalia.
Leaked Kenyan intelligence documents have linked him to Ms Lewthwaite, the British widow of Germaine Lindsey, who was one of four suicide bombers who attacked the London transport system on 7 July 2005.
Ikrima and Ms Lewthwaite are said to have conspired, along with a second British suspect, Jermaine Grant, to bomb targets in Kenya. The alleged plot was foiled when Kenyan police nabbed Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! Mr Grant in Mombasa in December 2011.
Ms Lewthwaite slipped away, but at her home police found a diary containing musings on the life of a jihadi.
"Recently my husband gave a talk to my eight-year-old son and five-year-old daughter," it reads.
"He asked them: What do you want to be when you are older. Both agreed to wanting to be a mujahid [jihadi]," she writes
It is not clear what role, if any, Ikrima or Ms Lewthwaite might have played in the attack on the Westgate shopping mall last month.
Neither is thought to have been inside the building. But the authorities believe apprehending them is key to preventing similar attacks in the future.
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[An Nahar] Two people were killed and at least 15 injured in heavy festivities that rattled the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... on Friday as the military prosecution began acting against the warring sides, the state-run National News Agency reported.
The latest casualty was Jabal Mohsen resident Katia Khodr, a 22-year-old mother of two, who died from gunshot wounds she suffered on Thursday, a security official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The casualty toll from five days of festivities has climbed to six dead and 49 maimed, the official said.
NNA said the number of casualties was reported in the gunbattles that rocked the city after midnight.
The gunnies used rockets and machineguns in the festivities. They also threw light flares to see the sources of rocket fire, the agency said.
The fighting between the rival neighborhoods of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh subsided in the morning despite intermittent sniper fire.
However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... festivities and sniper activity escalated in the afternoon on all frontiers, according to several media reports.
Voice of Leb radio (93.3) said an exchange of gunfire erupted between army troops and an gang that tried to prevent soldiers from erecting a checkpoint on Bab al-Tabbaneh's highway, which left several people maimed.
Al-Jadeed television said a child was maimed by sniper fire in the al-Baqqar area.
The army responded to the sources of fire and carried out patrols in the areas that separate the two districts and at the city's entrances, the agency said.
Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam expressed regret over the victims of the festivities, warning of the "dangerous results of meddling with the people's fate and the safety of the northern city."
He stressed the importance of undertaking the "necessary measures to end the terrible degradation of the security situation in Tripoli."
Salam held the government responsible for the situation in the city as it failed to act firmly with the violators.
State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr asked the heads of security agencies in the North to provide him with the names of the gunnies taking part in the Tripoli fighting to issue arrest warrants against them.
His decision came following a security meeting held on Thursday under President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... at Baabda Palace.
After the meeting, Caretaker Premier Najib Miqati said certain decisions had been taken and that their results would appear in the coming days.
There was limited traffic in Tripoli on Friday morning but most shops began opening and owners took stock of the damage to their properties.
With Friday's death, the toll in the fighting rose to at least six dead and more than 70 injured.
The fighting broke out on Monday evening as celebratory gunfire erupted in Jabal Mohsen over Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... 's appearance on al-Mayadeen television for an interview.
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[An Nahar] Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon has said "civil war" was raging in Leb between Hizbullah and Global Jihad members who have attempted to drag Israel into the conflict.
"To those who are not yet aware, there is already a civil war in Leb. Global Jihad, which has infiltrated Leb and is attacking Hizbullah, is blowing up boom-mobiles in Dahieh and is firing rockets at Dahieh and the Bekaa Valley," Yaalon said Thursday in reference to recent attacks on Hizbullah's strongholds.
He said that the same elements were behind recent rocket attacks on northern Israel in August.
They intended to elicit an Israeli response against Hizbullah, Yaalon said. But stressed that the Shiite party was quick to deny it was involved in the attacks.
He claimed Iran poses the greatest threat to Israel by arming proxies such as Hizbullah, Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.
"We are certainly talking about a regime with ambitions of world hegemony, and therefore we say that an unconventional regime such as this ... must absolutely not have unconventional weapons, in this case nuclear weapons," Yaalon said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream... Maj.-Gen. Noam Tibon, the commander of the Israeli Army's Northern Corps, said elite Hizbullah fighters are leading the Syrian regime's battle against rebels in the country's hotspots.
"We must understand that this is not a war in Syria where Syrians are fighting against Syrians anymore," Tibon said at The Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference in Herzliya.
Hizbullah is the "elite force today fighting against the rebels in Syria," he said.
The party is "fighting in the most dangerous and tough areas in Syria and actually leading the struggle," he added.
Locally, Hizbullah is fighting a sectarian war in Leb and preparing for a possible conflict with Israel, Tibon warned.
Hizbullah has more than 100,000 rockets aimed at Israel, which represents a new kind of terrorism facing the Jewish state, he said.
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"Hizbullah ... fighting agz the Rebels in Syria" > now also LEBANON???
The Hezzies Huzzies Hassies Hizzies, etc. are now both the Bammer's + Israel's new [pseudo]BFF in Lebanon - PARIS/FRANCE???
[An Nahar] Former U.S. vice president Al Gore on Thursday urged President Barack Obama Because I won... to block the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada, likening the carbon-intense project to drug addiction.
Gore, who has championed action against climate change since his razor-thin loss for the White House in 2000, praised Obama's general views on climate change but said his fellow Democrat faced a key test on the proposed project.
"This should be vetoed. It is an atrocity and a threat to our future," Gore told a conference marking the 10th anniversary of the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank.
"Junkies find veins in their toes when the ones in their arms and their legs give out. We are now at the point where we're going after these ridiculously dirty and dangerous carbon-based dirty fuels, and we've got to stop that," he said.
Obama has held off on a decision on the proposed 1,179-mile (1,897-km) pipeline, which would take oil from Alberta's tar sands to U.S. refineries, as he waits for a review on the environmental impact.
Opponents say that oil from Alberta's tar sands is among the dirtiest on the planet as it must be melted with steaming hot water before processing, further contributing to carbon emissions blamed for climate change.
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Does he use any carbon-based fuel? Or any food or products produced or transported by carbon-based fuel? Of course - much more than the average person, but he is much more important than the average person so it's ok.
[JPOST] Nigerian troops killed 74 members of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... in an air and ground assault, the military said on Friday, a further sign of stepped up operations against the Islamist sect.
The offensive on Thursday targeted Boko Haram camps in the remote villages of Galangi and Lawanti in northeast Borno state where the forces of Evil have their strongest presence.
"The operation, which involved ground and aerial assault supported by the Nigerian Air Force led to the destruction of the identified terrorist camps, killing 74 gunnies while others fled with serious injuries," Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed Dole said in a statement.
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund repeated their denial of any involvement in a recent church attack that left five dead, insisting the Archbishop of the church suggested that three Brotherhood members were maimed in the incident.
The Brotherhood condemned the incident amid accusations by the Islamist group's opponents that it took part in its planning. Investigations are still underway; testimony from a police conscript for the prosecution said there had been no security forces deployed at the church since August.
"The Church's priest asserted that three of the injured were members of the Moslem Brüderbund," the group said in a statement, reiterating that the Brotherhood's doctrine is one of peace not violence.
The priest, Justus Kamel, made the statement while commenting on the incident on private-owned Egyptian satellite television channel Al-Hayat earlier this week, saying the Brotherhood members were at the wedding to "congratulate their Christian friends."
The Brotherhood statement however refrained from mentioning the names of the injured.
Gunmen on cycle of violences attacked a wedding at the Virgin Mary Church of Warraq in Cairo's working class neighbourhood of Imbaba on Sunday, leaving five dead, among them two girls aged eight and twelve.
A Brotherhood-led alliance issued a statement following the attack condemning the police force's lax security and the crackdown launched on the group after Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... was ousted by the army in July amid mass protests against him.
The Brotherhood statement held the Interior Ministry responsible for "neglecting the security of Egyptian citizens, while busy stalking peaceful protesters."
In Friday's statement, the Brotherhood called the incident a "terrorist assault" and said it was surprised by media allegations that the group was connected to the incident.
Since Morsi's ouster and the deadly dispersal of two pro-Morsi sit-ins in August, a wave of anti-Coptic Christian attacks, mainly in Upper Egypt, have been carried out.
Some reports have blamed ultra-orthodox Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... for many of these attacks, after they accused Christians of colluding to remove Morsi from power.
The Warraq incident led to the largest corpse count in anti-Coptic attacks since Morsi's ouster.
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JOWHAR, Somalia -- In Labatan-Jirow vicinity, about 60km from Bay regional capital of Baidoa Al Shabaab executed a man accused of raping and then killing a 9-year-old girl.
Abdi Karawey, the man charged with the rape accepted the charges against him, Al Shabaab judge announced. On Wednesday, Al Shabaab firing squad executed the blindfolded man who was tied to a pole.
The relatives of the girl said, they had been searching their girl for a week.
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Were any Moslems involved? The article doesn't say.
[An Nahar] Former Internal Security Forces chief Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi accused Hizbullah on Friday of supplying armed gangs in the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... with arms and money.
"Hizbullah is supporting these armed gangs in Tripoli and providing them with weapons and money," Rifi said at a presser he held in Tripoli.
He noted: "Weapons possessed by the residents of (the Tripoli neighborhood of) Bab al-Tabbaneh is not equivalent to the arms of Hizbullah and those of the Resistance That'd be the Hezbullies, natch... Brigades."
"We have the Lebanese state and another state inside also in the country. Apparently Hizbullah's state dominates over the Lebanese state."
Rifi also considered that a group in Tripoli is subjected to the Syrian regime.
"But the city does not fear the Syrian regime and its security should not be in the hands of Hizbullah. Tripoli is able to defend itself by referring to the state's powers," he stressed.
"It is the state's duty to preserve the security of Tripoli," he added. "Our choice is the state."
The former ISF chief denied that what is happening in the northern city if a confrontation between Sunnis and Allawites.
"It is a confrontation between criminals and the city's residents," he pointed out, calling for implementing the law in the city.
Rafi called on the residents of (Tripoli's neighborhood of) Jabal Mohsen to condemn the double blasts that targeted two mosques in the city, urging also security forces to prosecute and try those behind the bombings.
"I urge Tripoli's residents and leaders to communicate and look into a roadmap."
The toll in the ongoing fighting in Tripoli rose to at least six dead and more than 70 injured on Friday.
The festivities broke out on Monday evening as celebratory gunfire erupted in Jabal Mohsen over Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... 's appearance on al-Mayadeen television for an interview.
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[An Nahar] Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said Friday night that the leader of the jihadist al-Nusra Front had been killed, but state news agency Sana quickly withdrew an alert saying the same thing.
"The terrorist Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani, chief of the al-Nusra Front affiliated to al-Qaeda, has been killed in the campaign in (the northwestern province of) Latakia," the television said, without providing details.
No confirmation was immediately available from other sources.
The al-Nusra Front, a jihadist group affiliated with al-Qaeda, is one of the more powerful rebel groups battling to overthrow Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites...
If confirmed, Jawlani's killing would be a major coup for the regime, which brands all of the rebels fighting against it "terrorists," including mainstream groups backed by the West and Arab states.
In May the United States designated Jawlani a global terrorist, saying he had been tasked by al-Qaeda with installing Islamic sharia law across Syria and had ordered multiple suicide kabooms.
Al-Nusra was designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. late last year.
[Dawn] At least a dozen people have been maimed as Indian and Pak troops exchanged gunfire over the border in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmire, officials said Friday. ...and another atrocity in Srinagar coming up in a few days...
An Indian official claimed at least 10 civilians were maimed as Pak troops allegedly fired guns and mortar shells at more than a dozen Indian border posts overnight in the disputed region.
An Indian paramilitary officer speaking on the customary condition of anonymity said Indian guards retaliated and an exchange of gunfire lasted several hours. He said the fighting continued till Friday morning at some places in southern Jammu region.
The maimed included four children in three villages, said local civil administrator Shantmanu, who uses only one name.
Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind... Pak military officials in Islamabad said Indian troops resorted to unprovoked firing and mortar shelling in a village near Sialkot early Friday, wounding two civilians.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with military policy.
Pak Foreign Ministry front man Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry called the ceasefire violations "a matter of great concern," and reiterated Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... 's commitment to improving relations with India.
Chaudhary told news hounds that Pak troops do not fire indiscriminately and emphasised that Pakistain has no interest in creating problems along the border.
"Our troops have a policy. We will not indulge in firing first. But if we are fired upon we will give a responsible and effective response," he said.
India on Wednesday accused Pak troops of firing on at least 50 Indian border posts, calling it the most serious violation of a 2003 cease-fire accord.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... Pakistain said Indian troops targeted 27 Pak posts near Sialkot with machine guns and mortar shells.
The gunfire resumed Thursday night after a lull during the day.
While the ceasefire has largely held for the past decade, sporadic violations are not uncommon. Since January this year the two nuclear-armed neighbors have regularly accused each other of initiating the fighting by firing mortar shells or gunshots across the frontier.
The latest incidents come even though the Pak and Indian prime ministers meet last month in New York and agreed on the need to reduce tensions.
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Yup. Cover fire
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's police fired tear gas at a march by loyalists of deposed president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... on Friday afternoon in Suez, after festivities broke out between the two. According to Al-Ahram's Arabic news website, protesters threw stones at security forces before the march was completely dispersed.
Security forces also intervened earlier Friday to end festivities between Morsi-supporters and residents in the coastal city of Alexandria.
In Gharbyia, residents of the Nile delta governorate provoked by anti-military chants clashed with protesters until police intervened. According to Al-Ahram, eyewitnesses claimed six were maimed and five tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
Meanwhile in Cairo, supporters of the Moslem Brüderbund marched to Al-Qobba presidential palace in Heliopolis amid an absence of security, reported state-owned news agency MENA.
In the upscale district of Maadi, hundreds of Morsi loyalists marched down the Corniche chanting against the military and holding posters of the popular four-finger Rabaa sign.
According to MENA, both police and army forces were deployed in front of the High Constitutional Court and the Military hospital, where deposed dictator Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... and ex- Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mahdi Akef are currently staying.
The pro-Morsi National Coalition in Support of Legitimacy announced a week of protests on Friday dubbed the 'Suez resilience, our way to Jerusalem.' The protests are being staged in condemnation of the military, who Morsi supporters accuse of carrying out a "coup" against an elected president.
The title of Friday's protests takes inspiration from popular resistance to the Israeli occupation of Suez in 1973, according to a statement by the Brotherhood-led National Coalition in Support of Legitimacy.
As had been the case during several previous Fridays, security forces have closed down main squares across the city out of fear the Brotherhood will start sit-ins to push their demands.
Cairo's famous Tahrir Square was closed, as well as the Mostafa Mahmoud and Sphinx Squares in Mohandesseen, and Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square in Nasr City - where the main pro-Morsi sit-in was violently dispersed last August, leaving hundreds dead.
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BAIDOA, Somalia -- The Somali Federal Government troops aided by Ethiopian forces have reportedly clashed with Al Shabaab militants in Bay region of Southern Somalia on Thursday, Garowe Online reports.
Local reports say, the fighting erupted between Bay regional districts of Ufurow and Awdiinle after truckloads of Somali government forces attacked a roadblock set up by Al Shabaab militia men.
How many government forces? Truckloads of government forces!
According to witnesses ten people from the opposing sides died in the battle and Al Shabaab fighters bravely ran away fled the vicinity after Ethiopian troops reinforced the Somali government forces.
So the truckloads of gummint troops needed the Æthiops to bail them out...
Five soldiers have been brought at Baidoa General Hospital for medical treatment, officials said.
Somalia Federal Government officials in Bay region told the media that they wanted to dislodge Al Shabaab from a strategic road connecting Bay to the border region of Gedo.
On the other hand, a spokesman for the Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group said that they were attacked by Ethiopian troops but declined to disclose the casualty figures on their side.
Too busy fleeing...
Al Shabaab is said to have barred trucks carrying commercial commodities from entering Gedo region.
Bay and Bakool regions in southern Somalia have been witnessing sporadic fighting between Federal Government of Somalia's military forces and Al Shabaab extremists. The Mogadishu-based Federal Government seeks to re-assert full control over the war-raved southern Somalia where Al Shabaab remains increasingly isolated as Somali-AMISOM forces removed the militants from a string of strategic towns.
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[Dawn] Unprovoked shelling and indiscriminate firing by Indian troops from across the border have caused the suspension of harvesting of paddy and other crops in villages along the Sialkot Working Boundary, residents of the affected areas told a team of foreign and local journalists on Thursday.
The people living in areas along Bajwat, Chaprar, Suchitgarh and Shakargarh sectors said the shelling and firing had intensified in recent days.
Officials of Chenab Rangers told the journalists that the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) had fired more than 4000 mortar shells and heavy bullets over the past eight days in villages near the Sialkot border, causing losses of human lives. They said several mortar shells fired by the BSF also landed in fields, but luckily these did not explode.
The Rangers retaliated in a befitting manner and silenced the Indian guns.
The villagers said they were facing immense problems because of the Indian shelling and firing. The media personnel also saw the houses and other buildings badly riddled by the shelling.
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[Al Ahram] A boom-mobilekaboom killed at least 20 people and maimed dozens more near a mosque in the Damascus province town of Suq Wadi Barada on Friday, a monitor said. The town is under rebel control, but troops loyal to the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... were positioned right outside it, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
"At least three of the dead were children," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.
State news agency SANA also reported the blast, and blamed "terrorists," the term the Assad regime uses for forces fighting to oust it.
"The car went kaboom! while the bully boyz were packing it with explosives near the Osama Bin Zeid mosque. Terrorists and non-combatants were killed," said the agency.
"Two bodies have arrived at the Moassat hospital, including a seven-year-old child's. There are also 30 maimed people, most of them critically," it added.
But anti-regime activists blamed loyalists for the blast.
Amateur video shot after the kaboom showed clouds of smoke rising above a burning car, while cries of men and women could be heard amid the chaos that followed the blast.
The footage also showed people carrying away casualties of the kaboom.
A second video showed the bodies of the dead, some of them covered with blankets. Among the bodies shown in the footage was that of a child.
An unidentified activist filming the video blamed the attack on troops loyal to President Assad.
"These are the bodies of some of the victims... of Assad's boom-mobilekaboom in Suq Wadi Barada. God is greater than you, Bashir al-Assad," he said.
Car bombings have plagued Syria in recent months, killing scores across the country.
Syria's 31-month conflict has killed more than 115,000 people, according to the Observatory.
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State news agency SANA also reported the blast, and blamed "terrorists," the term the Assad regime uses for forces fighting to oust it.
The repeated requirement to add the obligatory statement above has gone from tedious to downright foolish. I prefer the term Islamic savages. But the most basic definition of terrorists is indiscriminately killing people for political objectives.
[Al Ahram] Ten bombings and a shooting killed at least 12 people and wounded 19 in Iraq on Friday, officials said. Nine bombs exploded in and around the city of Baquba, north of Baghdad, killing a total of seven people and wounding eight, a police officer and a doctor said.
Three of the dead and two of the wounded were from the same family, the sources said.
The deadliest single attack was in Yusifiyah, south of Baghdad, where a roadside bomb exploded near a market, killing at least four people and wounding 11, security and medical officials said.
And in Baghdad itself, gunmen armed with silenced weapons killed a justice ministry employee in the Amriyah area.
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"Maryland state police and federal agents used a search warrant in an unrelated criminal investigation to seize the private reporting files of an award-winning former investigative journalist for The Washington Times who had exposed problems in the Homeland Security Department's Federal Air Marshal Service." ...hoping for the event horizon that will cause the Fourth Estate to become a little more objective...
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So hopefully, this ends the practice of an investigative reporter, maintaining source related documents at one's residence. If it contains a classification marking of any type, leave it at the office in an approved storage container.
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Are you a registered journalist? Papers, your papers please.
Smug writers saying their pen is mightier than the sword, but the State considers swords dangerous but not their pens? You lazy cows of intellectualist wordsmithing who carried water trashing Booosh must understand that while you feel you may have humped your rucksack of progressivism, you committed the sin of talking bad about the State and you will be purged by the next generation of KU keyboard pounders, other than a handful of iconic drunkard pundits to hash stories of the good olde days under Clinton. No pun intended.
The Canadian corporate giant which did such a bang up job with the ACA websites also helped Canada with its long gun registry system, which was such a smashing success in Canada that the law was scrapped. Unfortunately, our homegrown fascists still have feverish visions of disarmed slaves.
Extremist, in case you didn't know, is a liberal buzz word which means the Ku Klux Klan and other groups to which RKBA groups can easily be linked without any actual nexus. As long as you don't ask the group being linked, that is. That would be unfair.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Rifle ammunition prices were mixed with .308 ammunition continuing to post a modest price reduction, while pistol ammunition was unchanged to higher.
Prices for used weapons of all categories for private sale were mixed.
Pistol Ammo
.45 caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Tulammo, .34 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: BluCore Shooting Center, P&G Performance, reloaded, .34 per round (-.02 each from last week)
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Selway Armory, Ultramax, reloaded, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000 rounds: Lucky Gunner, BVAC, reloaded, .32 per round (+.06 each from last week)
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain, From Last Week: +.02 each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: High Country Ammunition, Rangemaster, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Battle Bag Ammo, Reloaded, .24 per round (Unchanged)
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged ( +.12 each over three weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Fiocchi, .44 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: No Listing: Offered from last week: LAX Ammunition, Fiocchi, .41 per round
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: +.05 each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire USA, Tulammo, steel cased, .32 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Sportsman's Guide, Wolf steel cased, .32 per round (Last Week: -.02 each )
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: -.03 each (-.21 over five weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, MFS, steel cased, .52 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000 rounds: Sportsman Guide, MFS, .56 per round
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (Five Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo Supply Warehouse, Wolf Polyformance, steel core and case, .26 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000 rounds: Ammo Supply Warehouse, Wolf Polyformance, steel core and case, .25 per round
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (Four Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Fast, Eley Target, .10 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Natchez Shooters Supplies, Remington Thunderbolt, .08 per round (Unchanged: -.06 each over two weeks)
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $670 Last Week Avg: $746
California: Smith & Wesson M&P-15: $650
Texas: High Standard: $650
New York: Smith & Wesson: $500 (!)
Virgina: Bushmaster Mixed Build: $800
Florida: Armalite: $750
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,264 Last Week Avg: $1,308
California: Sig Sauer M716 Patrol: $1,500
Texas: DPMS: $1,100
New York: CMMG Mk3: $650
Virginia: Smith & Wesson MP-10: $1,575
Florida: DPMS: $1,495
7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $665 Last Week Avg: $649
California: WASR: $650
Texas: Romarm: $650
New York: Saiga: $750 (Prolly Same Gun)
Virginia: Saiga: $550
Florida: WASR: $725
.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $503 Last Week Avg: $410
California: Rock Island Armory: $475
Texas: American Tactical Imports: $600
New York: Regent R200SS (Stainless): $400 (Same Gun)
Virginia: Rock Island Armory: $500
Florida: Taurus: $540
9mm Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic Average Price: $459 Last Week Avg: $426
California: Taurus PT24/7: $450
Texas: Taurus 92AF: $450
New York: Glock 19: $405 (Same Gun)
Virginia: Glock 19: $500
Florida: Glock 17: $490
.40 caliber S&W (Glock and other semiautomatic) Average Price: $580 Last Week Avg: $495
California: Glock 22: $500
Texas: Smith & Wesson: $450
New York: Glock 27: $500
Virginia: Glock 23: $474
Florida: Glock 23: $475
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Picked up this little beauty for net $60 when you figure in the goodies the seller included such as a 1,000 rounds of 30 caliber ammo. It's a 1944 Winchester but has a lot of mixed parts including the non-USGI stock set I'm replacing this weekend. When I'm finished it will be back to pure Winchester with all parts proper for the rifle's vintage.
This will be KiloBravo's LFG. I'm getting a BFG Monday, stay tuned.
Unfortunately, our homegrown fascists still have feverish visions of disarmed slaves.
Let me share an Aesop story my daughter read to me last night: The Thieves and the Cock
Some thieves once broke into a house, but found nothing in it worth carrying off but a cock. The poor cock said as much for himself as a cock could say, urging them to remember his services in crowing to get people up in time for their work. "Nay," said one of the thieves, "you had better say nothing about that. You alarm people and keep them waking, so that it is impossible for us to rob in comfort."
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#1 Picked up this little beauty for net $60 when you figure in the goodies the seller included such as a 1,000 rounds of 30 caliber ammo. I had one of these babies some time ago. It cost considerably more than $60 bucks. I didn't get 1000 rounds of ammo. What a deal!
For a moment I thought someone was following the example of this regime and trying to redistribute some of the taxpayers ammo compliments of TSA--but alas it was just teenagers creating mischief.
[Shabelle] Two Americans were kidnapped by pirates after their ship was attacked off Nigeria's coast, U.S. officials said Thursday.
The U.S.-flagged oil supply vessel C-Retriever was targeted in the Gulf of Guinea early Wednesday, Rooters reported.
Maritime news website gCaptain reported that the ship's captain and its chief engineer had been kidnapped. U.S. officials said the working assumption was that the pair had been kidnapped for ransom.
Nigerian military officials, who deployed army and navy units in the hunt to find the kidnappers, as of late Thursday had no "hard information" on the whereabouts of them or the two American sailors taken hostage, a Nigerian Navy front man told NBC News.
The front man attributed the abductions to "criminals in the delta," emphasizing they were common criminals and pirates, not myrmidons. Creeks and swamps leading to the Nigerian coast were being searched for the hostages.
The seized vessel is owned by Louisiana-based Edison Chouest Offshore, according to Rooters. The company was not immediately available for comment. "I can say no more!"
Sources told NBC News that there were no U.S. warships in the region and no immediate plans for a hostage rescue attempt. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... there is a contingent of U.S. Marines aboard a Dutch warship in the area as part of a military exchange program.
"We're obviously closely monitoring reports that two U.S. citizens have been kidnapped from a U.S. flagged vessel," State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said at a press briefing on Thursday. "It's a motor vessel, the C-Retriever, in the Gulf of Guinea. We are seeking additional information about the incident, so that we may contribute to safely resolving the situation."
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A former Guantanamo Bay detainee with Al Qaeda ties was in Benghazi the night of the Sept. 11 attack, according to a source on the ground in Libya.
The source told Fox News that ex-detainee Sufian bin Qumu, who is suspected of running camps in eastern Libya where some of the assailants trained, is also a "respected member" of Ansar al-Sharia -- one of the Islamist groups identified in State Department email traffic two hours after the attack.
Two sources familiar with the investigation, when asked about bin Qumu's whereabouts the night of the attack, did not dispute the claim he was in Benghazi.
While it is not clear whether bin Qumu was directing the assault, his security file from Guantanamo may be revealing. While in Afghanistan in 1998, alongside Usama bin Laden, the Libyan national "communicated with likely extremist elements via radio during this period indicating a position of leadership," the file shows.
Fox News' ongoing reporting on the attack has shown that at least four key Benghazi suspects have ties to the Al Qaeda senior leadership in Pakistan. They include bin Qumu and Muhammad Jamal, whose network is also suspected of training jihadists for the attack. Jamal was held, and later released by, Egyptian authorities. Earlier this month, the State Department's terrorist designation for Jamal and his network cites letters he exchanged with Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, where Jamal asked for money and explained the scope of his training camps, which included Libya and the Sinai.
Fox News was first to report that two other suspects have ties to the Al Qaeda senior leadership -- one believed to be a former courier and the other, a bodyguard for the network. Faraj al Chalabi, identified to Fox News as the bodyguard, was also in Afghanistan with bin Laden until the U.S. invasion in October 2001.
The hunt is still underway for suspects in the attack more than a year later, though some have questioned the administration's resolve.
After Fox News reported earlier this week that the Benghazi suspects are not included on the State Department's "Rewards for Justice" program, which offers cash for tips that lead to suspected terrorists, Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, wrote to Secretary of State John Kerry questioning the omission.
The letter is now being circulated on Capitol Hill for signatures, Fox News has learned, and should be delivered to Kerry's office no later than next week.
A draft reviewed by Fox News includes highly critical language. "We fail to understand how such an important counterterrorism tool could not be used by the administration, when you and the president claim that bringing the assailants to justice is such a high priority," the draft says.
Bin Qumu was transferred to Guantanamo on May 5, 2002, and released to Libya on Sept. 28, 2007, where he was initially held and later released. His Guantanamo review file, originally a classified document but made public by WikiLeaks, says he is a "former member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), a probable member of al Qaida and a member of the North African Extremist Network. Detainee is a medium to high risk and he is likely to pose a threat to the US and it's interests and allies."
[Dawn] Pakistain has told the US that Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped the CIA track down former Al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now beyond all cares and woe... , was no hero and that his fate would be decided by the courts, DawnNews reported.
Pakistain's Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani was giving a briefing after a meeting between a US House Committee on Foreign Affairs and a delegation led by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
Jilani said a high-level delegation from Pakistain would visit the United States on Nov 12.
The meeting which was attended by Pakistain's Federal Finance Minister Senator Ishaq Dar, Foreign Secretary Jilani and Prime Minister's Adviser on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz discussed matters relating to the "war against terrorism", myrmidon outfits like the Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LT), civil nuclear program, drone strikes, energy crisis, educational reforms, regional stability and trade.
During the meeting, the foreign secretary said that the US was told that the LT had already been banned in Pakistain and that action could be taken against Hafiz Muhammad Saeed ...who would be wearing a canvas jacket with very long sleeves anyplace but Pakistain... if substantial evidence was made available.
Regarding the demand to release Dr Shakil Afridi, Jilani said the US was told that Afridi was no hero and was facing criminal cases, adding that the courts would decide his fate.
Earlier, the BBC Urdu website had reported that United States Representative Edward Royce, a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Republican and Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee had emphasised on Afridi's release during the meeting.
The meeting was also attended by chairman representatives of both the parties in the House and 15 other members.
Afridi was convicted and sentenced to 33 years last year in May for involvement in anti-state activities by a tribal court.
A judicial official overturned the 33-year jail sentence in August this year but Afridi remains in detention.
He is accused of colluding with banned myrmidon outfit Lashkar-e-Islam and its chief Mangal Bagh ...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency... .
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[Dawn] The government has decided to include 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... vaccination on the agenda of dialogue with the Taliban as 90 per cent of the cases during the current year have been reported from Fata where the gunnies have banned anti-polio campaigns.
This was stated by Minister of State for Health Regulations Saira Afzal Tarar while talking to mediapersons at a function held in connection with the World Polio Day here on Thursday.
It may be noted that Taliban have imposed a ban on polio vaccination campaigns in South and North Wazoo.
The minister said Taliban should understand the fact that children were suffering because of their ban on the polio drives.
She said so far this year 49 cases of polio had been reported in Pakistain -- 36 in Fata, three in Punjab, four in Sindh and six in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... .
"Polio virus circulation has been restricted to three zones i.e. Fata, Quetta and its neighbouring districts of Qilla Abdullah and Pishin and 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 Gadap Town."
Ms Tarar said one of the biggest obstacles in the eradication of polio was the lack of consistent access to children in the highest risk areas. She said 260,000 children in North and South Waziristan had not been vaccinated against polio since July 2012.
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...child hostages...nice...does anyone outside these digital pages realize that "talking" with these pre-Neanderthals will go only in their favor with meaningless (to them) concessions tossed about as an occasional bone?
...Strong horses win, weak horses lose, and nice horses are lunch...
The website for the United States National Security Agency suddenly went offline Friday.
Really shouldn't snicker, NSA is supposed to DO this sort of thing, not have these things DONE to them...
NSA.gov has been unavailable globally as of late Friday afternoon, and Twitter accounts belonging to people loosely affiliated with the Anonymous hacktivism movement have suggested they are responsible.
Twitter users @AnonymousOwn3r and @TruthIzSexy both were quick to comment on the matter, and implied that a distributed denial-of-service attack, or DDoS, may have been waged as an act of protest against the NSA.
Allegations that those users participated in the DDoS a method of over-loading a website with too much traffic are currently unverified, and @AnonymousOwn3r has previously taken credit for downing websites in a similar fashion, although those claims have been largely contested.
The crippling of NSA.gov comes amid a series of damning national security documents that have been disclosed without authorization by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. The revelations in the leaked documents have impassioned people around the globe outraged by evidence of widespread surveillance operated by the NSA, and a massive Stop Watching Us rally is scheduled for Saturday in Washington, DC.
DDoS attacks are illegal in the United States under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or CFAA, and two cases are currently underway in California and Virginia in which federal judges are weighing in on instances in which members of Anonymous allegedly used the technique to take down an array of sites during anti-copyright campaigns waged by the group in 2010 and 2011. In those cases, so-called hacktivsits are reported to have conspired together to send immense loads of traffic to targeted websites, rendering them inaccessible due to the overload.
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Could it be a warning message from our.... friends overseas? I recommend contacting Toni Townes-Whitley at CGI at once.
"Claims that the outage was caused by a distributed denial of service attack are not true."
The website was operational again around 10:30 pm (0230 GMT Saturday).
The hacker group Anonymous joked about the incident in a tweet, without saying if it had played any role. "Aw don't panic about nsa.gov being down. They have a backup copy of the internet," it said.
KISMAYO, Somalia -- A new deal brokered during talks between Somali Federal Government (SFG) delegation led by Interior Minister Abdikarim Hussein Guled and Jubaland president Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Islam (Madobe) aims to return a warring militia that previously fought against Jubaland government forces in Kismayo last June, Garowe Online reports.
Great idea. Bring back all the guys with guns. What could possibly go wrong?
The deal is part of implementing the Juba Agreement, signed in Addis Ababa on Aug. 27, 2013, and brokered by Ethiopia under the auspices of IGAD.
Jubalands leader Ahmed Madobe told reporters on Monday that Jubaland administration will attend the proposed reconciliation conference in Mogadishu and noted that Jubaland has accepted the return of militia loyal to ex-warlord Col. Barre Hirale, who fought pitched battles during three days in June in Kismayo, leading to more than 100 deaths and hundreds others wounded.
On Tueday, Mr. Madobe received an European Union delegation led by EU Special Envoy to Somalia Michele Cervone in Kismayo, and called on international agencies to "come to Kismayo like the EU delegation" to provide humanitarian support to local communities.
Hirales militia was militarily expelled from Kismayo and Federal Government officials, who are accused of using Hirale as proxy, are campaigning to return the militia back to Kismayo.
Speaking on BBC Somali Service, Mr. Abdigani Abdi Jama, an adviser to Jubaland president Ahmed Madobe, said that Hirales militia will surrender and will be retrained at camps under the new agreement.
Retrained to do what? Auto repair?
Mr. Jama also noted that a technical committee comprised of Federal Government, Jubaland, AMISOM and UN officials will oversee the returning militia and reintegration into security forces.
Answering a question about Hirales future, Mr. Jama indicated that it is a possibility that Jubaland administration will provide a safe passage for Hirale to fly from Kismayo airport to Mogadishu, at the request and facilitation of Federal Government in Mogadishu.
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[Dawn] Differences have cropped up between the Nowshera chapters of Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... and Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... as Jamaat leaders are openly criticising the PTI-led coalition government for ignoring its workers in jobs and other matters.
Sources said that Chief Minister Pervez Khattak had made a complaint to Jamaat-e-Islami provincial chief Prof Ibrahim about the new developments.
"He also suggested setting up a joint coordination committee to chalk out future line of action," sources in the JI said.
They said that the proposed names for the joint coordination committee included JI district chief Merajuddin, Shabaab-e-Milli district president Iftikhar Ahmad and Asif Luqman while on provincial level Senior Minister Sirajul Haq would represent the party.
Quoting JI local leadership, the sources said that they had set January 30 deadline for the provincial government to devise a clear formula for sharing developmental works with the coalition partners.
In case of the PTI's failure, the Nowshera chapter of JI would start a protest movement to pressurise its leadership to part ways with the PTI, they said.
The local JI leaders have criticised new appointments in health department and workers welfare board, alleging that the PTI-led government had ignored coalition parties in sharing the jobs.
The sources said that the PTI could get 50 per cent share in all jobs while the remaining 50 per cent should be distributed among the allied partners, including JI and Qaumi Watan Party.
In this connection, when JI district chief Merajuddin was contacted he said that his party had not given any deadline for launching agitation nor was there any grouping in the Jamaat.
He, however, said that they had registered complaints with the provincial JI amir against the attitude of PTI local leadership with their activists.
Mr Merajuddin also said that the JI provincial amir had issued a press statement that all matters with the PTI-led government were moving in the right direction.
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[An Nahar] A 30-centimeter (12-inch) tsunami hit Japan Friday after a powerful and shallow undersea quake, broadcaster NHK said, although there were no immediate signs of serious damage or injury.
People were being warned to stay away from the coast with the small wave rolling ashore in Ishinomaki around an hour after the 7.1 magnitude quake.
Workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant were "ordered to evacuate from the waterfront", Kyodo reported, also quoting the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) as saying no new abnormalities had been found at the power station.
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Felt both the recent Cebu quake in the PHIL, + now this one in Nippon.
[Dawn] Pakistain ranks as the world's second-worst country in terms of gender equality and equitable division of resources and opportunities among men and women, says a report published Friday.
The Global Gender Gap Report 2013, published by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with faculty at Harvard University ...home of the Best and the Brightest, contributed $878,164 to the 2008 Obama campaign. Is there a reason universities are among the top financiers of political campaigns? and the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Berkeley, assesses 136 countries, representing more than 93 per cent of the world's population, on how well resources and opportunities are divided among male and female populations.
According to the index, Iceland tops the list with the most equitable sharing of resources among the sexes, followed closely by north European countries such as Finland, Norway and Sweden.
Pakistain comes down at 135, followed only by Yemen, and its score has fallen three spots since the study was conducted last year.
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I would say Saudi,Somalia,Afghanistan and Sudan must be up there with the worse.
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I don't know....they way men are ridiculed, mocked, second-class students at Colleges and Universities, and in healthcare....US might be up there as well
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[Al Ahram] A Spanish court freed a serial rapist 17 years into his 30-year sentence under a European human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... ruling that also benefits terrorism convicts, officials said Friday.
Antonio Garcia Carbonell, 76, became the first non-terrorism convict to benefit from the ruling, which has angered Spanish authorities.
The European decision overturned a Spanish judicial doctrine that retroactively cut remission earned through prison work, mostly for jugged I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! members of the armed Basque group ETA.
An official in the Catalonia regional courts service told AFP on Friday that a Barcelona court had ordered Garcia's release the previous day. Media reported he had walked free almost immediately.
Garcia was convicted in 1996 at two trials of a string of rapes, robberies and abductions and sentenced to a total of 268 years in jail, of which he was ordered to serve a legal maximum of 30 years.
In a written ruling ordering his release on Thursday, the Barcelona court upheld an appeal by Garcia's lawyers on the grounds of Monday's decision by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in a separate case.
"The penal liability to which Antonio Garcia Carbonell was sentenced is extinguished... and consequently the convict's liberty is decreed," the Barcelona court said.
The European court said Monday that Spain had wrongly extended the sentence of Ines del Rio Prada, a 55-year-old woman jugged I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! for a series of violent ETA attacks.
It said Spain breached European rights law by cutting the years of remission she earned for prison work.
Spanish courts had also applied this practice, known as the Parot Doctrine, to Garcia, who would otherwise have been due for early release in 2011.
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Its probably for the best...they are only Europeans, after all.
268 years for serial rape, robbery, kidnapping and multiple sodomy does seem to be a bit excessive.... even for your average hot blooded Spaniard.
Sounds like a French Law, though, doesn't it? The tone, you know, definitely French. And the crimes couldn't have happened in Germany...the Germans are more into old people and uniforms and dogs....doesn't sound German...except the serial part, maybe.
Russian investigators believe the woman who detonated explosives on a Volgograd bus on October 21 may have intended to attack a shopping center in the city instead.
Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the Russian Investigative Committee, said the bomber, who was identified as Naida Asiyalova from Daghestan, was in the Akvarel shopping center for a few minutes but that there were only a few people present and she suddenly left for a bus stop. About 30 minutes later, an explosion on the city bus that Asiyalova boarded killed six people and injured more than 50 others.
Markin also said Asiyalova seemed to have acted alone in the attack, but investigators are looking into possible accomplices she might have had in Dagestan. Asiyalova's husband, a wanted terrorist militant, is believed to be in Dagestan.
[Dawn] Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Governor Shaukatullah Khan on Thursday feared that Paks could face travel restrictions over the growing 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... cases in the country.
"If the situation (high polio incidence) is not handled on war footing, there could be a ban on Paks wanting to travel to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... for Haj and Umrah as well as workers," he said during a World Polio Day function at the Governor's House.
He said increase in polio cases in various parts of Fata was a matter of grave concern but the government was committed to meeting the challenge effectively.
The governor said 37 polio cases had been reported in Fata in 2013, which was 75 per cent of the total nationwide cases of the year.
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[Al Ahram] Congo's M23 rebels clashed with government troops for the first time in nearly two months on Friday, and neighbouring Rwanda said Congolese army shells had landed on its territory, raising tensions in the volatile region. The fighting came after peace talks broke down in the Ugandan capital Kampala on Monday. It sent some 5,000 civilians fleeing across the border into Rwanda, a U.N. peacekeeping spokesman said.
General Sultani Makenga, M23's military commander, said the rebels came under attack at 4 a.m. local time (0200 GMT) at Kanyamohoro, around 15 km (10 miles) north of Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
"We are going to defend our positions," Makenga told Reuters by telephone.
Congolese army General Lucien Bahuma said M23 fighters had attacked first and fierce combat was continuing. The Congolese army was seeking to overrun rebel positions in Kibumba, just south of Kanyamohoro, officers said.
A Reuters reporter in Goma said fighting was intense and continuous on Friday as Congolese army troops bombarded rebel positions with heavy artillery and machinegun fire.
Rwandan army spokesman Brigadier General Joseph Nzabamwita said Congo's army fired three shells and small arms into Rubavu district, just over the border near the Rwandan city of Gisenyi. Border security had been tightened.
"There are many Congolese crossing into Rwanda," Nzabamwita said, adding that a 58-year-old Congolese woman had been evacuated after being struck by a bullet.
Rwanda's U.N. Ambassador warned the 15-nation council on Friday during a closed-door meeting that Rwanda would not tolerate shelling of its territory and was in a position to respond militarily, a U.N. Security Council diplomat said.
In late August, Rwanda accused Congolese troops of shelling its territory and the tensions between the two neighbours raised fears of a regional conflict.
South African and Tanzanian troops, part of a new 3,000-strong U.N. Intervention Brigade with a tough mandate to crush armed groups in eastern Congo, were present near the frontline but did not join the combat.
The United Nations mission in Congo (MONUSCO) asked a committee of military experts from the International Conference of the Great Lakes region - an 11-nation regional bloc - to investigate the reports of a shell landing in Kageyo in Rwanda.
"MONUSCO is on high alert and is closely monitoring the situation," Martin Nesirky, spokesperson for the U.N. secretary general, said in New York.
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[An Nahar] The Paleostinian security services in the West Bank have enjugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... three students accused of plotting to build a "drone" with which to attack Israel, a source said Friday.
The three Hebron University engineering students had intended to build a pilotless aircraft equipped with explosives, according to the Paleostinian security source.
But before they could carry out the attack, they were arrested by the security services of the Paleostinian Authority, which governs the West Bank, the source said without giving any more details.
Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, the Islamist movement which rules the Gazoo Strip, issued a statement denouncing "this new proof of security cooperation between the occupation (Israel) and the services of the Paleostinian Authority."
It also criticized the Paleostinian Authority for "hindering all the efforts of the resistance and protecting the security of the occupation."
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"It's my Master's project for my M.S. - Master of Seething!"
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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez faces one of the most important elections of her career on Sunday, and aides say she's not even following the news.
She's not what she once was with her hubbie gone. Or with the hole in her head...
Fernandez has been secluded in the presidential residence, recovering from skull surgery in the run-up to congressional elections that will decide how much power she'll have during the final two years of her presidency.
Her doctors say she must avoid stress, so Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo says she wasn't even told about the train crash causing new problems for the government this week.
Polls suggest the ruling Front for Victory party will lose ground in both houses, burying the idea that she'll win the super-majority necessary to change the constitution and enable re-election to a third straight term.
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...like sharks teeth, you can be certain that another Peronist is on the way...
David Guth, the University of Kansas journalism professor who tweeted last month he hoped the children of national Rifle Association members are murdered, will return to Kansas but in an non teaching role, according to a Kansas City Star news report.
Guth used Twitter September 20th after the Washington DC naval yard shooting to say: "Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters. Shame on you. May God damn you."
The university reaction was to grant Guth a sabbatical for the spring semester, even though at least one Kansas legislator wanted him fired.
Guth excused himself for his tweet as "word misconstrued".
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Sabbatical? I thought that word was reserved for spending two weeks in a cave outside Monte Cassino, not transfered to a non-essential salary position. Like to point out that here in Kansas, NRA members tend to put money into the tax system big time, which in turn pays the salary of this agitating teacher in a flailing university best know for embezzling $30mil from Sebelius in order to make a great college football team so that the alum can say fine things at their whine and cheez parties. In fact, the only reason his department floats like a goldfish turd is the neohippy children of gated communities located 30 miles east of Lawrence have no other talent than poorly writing about their feelings.
So little talent, couldn't even agitate the removal of a Chik-fil-A from Berkley-on-Kaw, and I'm sure a 25% increase in tuition will fix wonders.
Lawrence used to be an interested and even rough and tumble city. In the quest for a liberal utopia they created such an anti-business environment in the guise of protecting downtown that they made it unaffordable for the small or local to do business downtown, so now its bars and established niches and micky d burritos. Perhaps our hard cooked egghead writing confessor would do a story about how the city council blocked a new wally world, then got paid off and allowed its construction. Where is the follow story about the $30mil bathroom renovation at the same time new lighting was put up at the football field, and a jumbotron which blocked the traditional view from the hill into the bowl? Gonna come in real handy after I change the channel to the World Series at halftime this evening. These gushing progressives voted their town a sanctuary city, and when they tired of drugheads unexpectedly panhandling the precious downtown business out of friendly, they voted to round them up and place them in a minimum security institution somewhere east of town. But that's ok, because basketball.
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He would like to have a "Final Solution" for his enemies--and their children.
He would be on-board for the roundup and removal of his protectorate friend homeless and drug addles invited to live in his town, and a disregard to the stewardship of an entire university wing, its enough evidence for me...especially since he was given a continuing position for proof positive hate speech while Coach Mangino was strapped to a donkey and ridden out of town backwards for alleged hate speech accused by known gangster criminal football players at the prompting of the Athletic Director's special service investigation.
But our curious and vaunted writing teacher has no story on the absolute corruption called the Roy Williams Fund. Ironically, by invoking God, he sets himself outside the vocal tribe, and sounds rather Phelpsian.
[Dawn] Violence broke out in the strife-hit areas of Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... on Thursday when a shootout between two gangs left three passers-by dead and four others maimed, law-enforcement agencies said.
They added that the killings were the result of a fresh rivalry between the criminal gangs operating in the city's oldest neighbourhood.
The officials said the breakdown of law and order in Lyari could be a 'deliberate move' in reaction to the 'targeted operation' by the Rangers that led to the arrest of a number of suspected gangsters during the past one month.
The fresh wave of violence that triggered anxiety and fear among residents and caused suspension of commercial and other activities in some localities again prompted the authorities to launch a targeted operation during which several suspects were placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! and arms and ammunitions seized.
According to Chakiwara SHO Ishaq Lashari, seven persons were maimed when the criminals resorted to heavy firing on Tannery Road in Bihar Colony.
All the seven victims were rushed to the Civil Hospital 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... where doctors declared three of them dead. The dear departed were identified as Abdul Ghani Lakhiar, 35, Mohammed Waseem, 26, and Mohammed Shahbaz, 25. All the other maimed persons, including 70-year-old Manzoor Ali, Zeeshan Liaquat, 18, Mohammed, 20, and Asif Fayyaz, 27, were admitted for treatment, the police said.
According to a medico-legal officer of the CHK, Dr Qarar Abbasi, the relatives took away the bodies of Waseem and Shahbaz without completing legal formalities. He said Abdul Ghani had sustained a single gunshot wound in his chest, fired from some distance.
Mr Ghani was stated to be a 'paramedical tutor' at the Civil Hospital Dadu. He was also associated with the Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... Shaheed Youth Development Programme.
The killings of three passers-by could be the outcome of 'infighting' between two gangs led by Faisal Pathan and Noor Mohammed alias Baba Ladla, respectively, said Lyari SP Shahnawaz.
He said the firing was carried out at a time when the paramilitary force was conducting a targeted action in the Singhu Lane area of Lyari.
The senior officer believed that the criminals might have opened fire on the people in order to divert the attention of the law-enforcement agencies there. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... he said, investigation was under way to ascertain the exact motive for the attack.
The Lyari SP said they had also received reports that a suspected gangster was killed during a shootout between the alleged criminal groups. But his accomplices took away the body, he added.
Following the killings, the Rangers conducted a targeted action in Bihar Colony.
According to a Rangers spokesperson, the paramilitary force tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! eight suspects and seized hand grenades, SMGs and other arms from their possession.
The Pakistain Rangers, Sindh, conducted targeted raids in Singhu Lane and other areas such as Liaquatabad, Jut Lines, Burnes Road, Bilal Colony, Khudda Ki Basti, Orangi Town, Al-Falah Colony, Landhi, Angara Goth, Pehalwan Goth, Korangi Town and Rafah-e-Aam Society.
The paramilitary force arrested 29 'hardened criminals', including 'Lyari gang war elements' and criminals affiliated with political groups, involved in 'heinous crimes'.
According to a police spokesperson, the Sindh police chief while taking notice of the firing incident in Lyari directed the city police chief to adopt "strict measures to restore normality to the area and report to him".
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As in EUROPE = NATO-EU, so also it will be in EAST ASIA.
* PRAVDA > CHINA WILL START A WAR, IFF IT DOES NOT BREAK UP [first].
Can newly appointed US Ambassador CAROLINE KENNEDY enable Sino-Japanese compromise on disputed islands, + induce "Mahanist" Beijing + CPC/CCP to amend its "post-US" Manifest Destiny???
* DRUDGEREPORT > [Financial Times = FT] A SUPERPOWER AT RISK OF SLIPPING. THE [US] DOLLAR STILL REIGNS BUT UNDERLYING CONFIDNCE IS SHAKEN.
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Looked at from The Lightbringer's perspective, it is not so much a case of isolation, but rather he is elevating himself to his true and proper position........
[Al Ahram] The meeting comes as UN-Arab League envoy Brahimi tours the region in a bid to build a consensus for holding a peace conference next month in Geneva between regime and rebel representatives
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After the meeting the various factions broke off into working groups to brainstorm team building techniques. The event concluded with dinner featuring Blood Pump Tartar and goat cheese with a lovely Humus pudding.
JOWHAR, Somalia -- At least four civilians died and 14 others were wounded in grenade explosion that targeted the Somali Federal Government soldiers at market in Janale village of Lower Shabelle region of southern Somalia, Garowe Online reports.
According to witnesses, unidentified assailants Thursday threw the hand grenade at soldiers and the soldiers responded with gunfire which wounded and killed many nearby shoppers.
The wounded persons were taken to a health facility run by AMISOM and Janale authorities confirmed that the soldiers were collecting tax from stalls when the grenade exploded.
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Did the grenade attack kill or wound any soldiers? Or for that matter, civilians? Or were the civilians killed and wounded by the military counterattack? (I also wonder if the soldiers were collecting an official tax or 'protectio'n money?)
Norway's foreign minister says his country has turned down a US request to receive Syria's chemical weapons for destruction.
That didn't take long...
Boerge Brende on Friday said Norway doesn't have the capabilities to handle the request by the deadlines given so there was no point in continuing the discussions.
"Yes? President Who? Well alright, I have only a minute but put him on..."
Brende said the US is looking at other alternatives but didn't give details.
Sucks when no one returns your calls, eh Champ?
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...Champ forgot to warm 'em up first with some of his speeches on MP3...these Norskes are makin' a mistake, tho. It's not everyday that someone offers ya' free lutefisk prep solution...
[An Nahar] Mozambique's former rebel movement Renamo said Friday one of its politicians was killed in a raid on its military base by government troops earlier in the week.
The statement came after Renamo, which fought a bloody civil war against the ruling Frelimo party before transforming into a political party, declared that a 1992 peace deal was over.
Renamo said the assault Monday on its base in central Mozambique amounted to an attack by the government on multiparty democracy.
"Our colleague Armindo Milaco died as a result of government forces' attack on our leader's base on 21 October," Renamo front man Fernando Mazanga told Agence La Belle France Presse. "He was hit by a howitzer."
The party only learned of Milaco's death on Friday because communication had been difficult, it said.
Militants reportedly from the former rebel movement attacked a nearby cop shoppe the day after the attack, which kicked off a spate of tit-for-tat violence.
Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama last November returned to his bush camp near the central Gorongosa mountains and started retraining soldiers for a "revolution", without making clear his intentions.
Dhlakama fled ahead of Monday's attack and is hiding at some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location.
Over the last six months Renamo forces of Evil have clashed sporadically with government forces and attacked civilian vehicles on the main north-south highway.
Renamo took up arms against the then-communist government of Frelimo -- the Mozambique Liberation Front -- after independence from Portugal in 1975.
It became the official opposition party after the 1992 peace agreement, but has lost every national election ever since.
Officially Renamo is demanding a bigger role in electoral bodies and its fighters' integration into the government forces. But more than 20 rounds of talks with Frelimo over the past 10 months have stalled with little progress.
The party is boycotting upcoming local polls on November 20 after refusing to register until electoral reforms are passed.
It failed to table its suggestions in parliament, saying Frelimo's overwhelming majority meant they would probably be voted down.
It has been highly critical of the Frelimo government, which it accuses of politicizing the state and stealing the impoverished country's resources.
As Mozambique started mining coal and gears up to extract vast natural gas reserves, simmering tensions between the two reached a breaking point and Renamo demanded a cut of the revenues.
The unrest has been confined to the central region, but this week's attacks have sparked fears of renewed war between the foes, prompting worried reactions from the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... , the United States and neighbors South Africa.
Many are unsure how to interpret the movement's statements that ended the peace agreement, after many similar hints to take up arms again in the past.
But its front man Mazanga said the movement did not want to return to civil war, following the devastation of the previous 16-year conflict.
"We know the consequences of conflict. If we respond with violence we might plunge the country back in war," he told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"We are open for talks, but demand that the head of state and commander of the armed forces withdraw his troops from our base."
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As Mozambique started mining coal and gears up to extract vast natural gas reserves, simmering tensions between the two reached a breaking point and Renamo demanded a cut of the revenues.
Renamo simply responding to the models already established in Zim and South Africa. Pay them off and lets get back to tribal communism as usual.
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Seems to me there is a big opportunity for outsourcing and privatization in situations like this where the govt either can't or has better things to do than putting down rebel groups.
I also have a vague sense of having seen this movie before.
[Dawn] Two bullet-riddled bodies of schoolboys were found in a rainy water course near Darra Pezu Town here on Thursday.
An official said that local people spotted the bodies and informed police about the same. He said that officials of Shaheed Haibat Ali Khan cop shoppe reached the place and found the bodies lying there.
"The law enforcers took the bodies into custody and shifted them to a local hospital," the official said. He added that each of the dear departed boys was about 15-years-old. "They were identified as Saleem and Minhas, residents of Darra Pezu," he said.
The official said that the bodies were later handed over to the relatives and police started the paperwork but haven't done much else and started investigation.
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...Association of Black Princeton Alumni? When a race has it's own Princeton "Good Old Boy / Girl" network, can they still be identified as "disadvantaged..?"
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A look at the Statement of Work (SOW), contract mods, deliverables, number of personnel assigned to the contract, hours worked by each, invoices, ETF (electronic funds transfers) ...... details please, the details.
Testimony from the 'Government' Administrative Contacting officer (ACO), Procurement Contracting Officer (PCO), and Contracting Officer (CO) would likewise be helpful.
Could be high crimes and misdemeanors found here.
I hope someone runs the traps.
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#2 Could be high crimes and misdemeanors found here.
I hope someone runs the traps.
That's the reason these people cannot afford to give up power.
The trouble is...I have been convinced for decades now that from the House on up, by the time you get that seat on Capitol Hill or further down the street you've compromised yourself so badly in one form or another that if anyone really applied the laws you'd have all but a handful being marched out the door in cuffs, and they'd be looking real close at the ones who were left. There will be no impeachments or prosecutions, not out of political partisanship but self preservation.
It's broke now. Beyond any possible question or argument. The only question left is if we'll have the courage to do anything about it, or if we'll just watch it happen.
Mike
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Besides being sole-source, I'll bet it's cost plus. Overruns are a feature, the big money is in the change orders.
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During my 30+ years as a software geek I spent probably 5 years as a systems auditor. We found all sorts of funny business in the contracting process and it has been my belief from day 1 that this debacle would include everyone of them...plus a whole lot I've never seen before.
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The giant sucking sound you hear is the Chicago-style vacuum cleaner that sucks up money and directs it towards cronys, friends, and fellow-travelers.
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This was all totally predictable and, in fact, it was predicted. The only thing we need here is a graphic of Gomer Pyle saying "Shazam!". Either that or the surprise meter.
It's a good bet that healthcare.gov was engineered to fail so the gummint would be compelled to throw even more money in Ms. Townes' direction. It's a gravy train and she be ridin' in style.
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typical Canuck troll
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Rather than open the contracting process to a competitive public solicitation with multiple bidders, officials in the Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid accepted a sole bidder, CGI Federal, the U.S. subsidiary of a Canadian company with an uneven record of IT pricing and contract performance.
CMS officials are tight-lipped about why CGI was chosen or how it happened. They also refuse to say if other firms competed with CGI, or if there was ever a public solicitation for building Healthcare.gov, the backbone of Obamacares problem-plagued web portal.
Instead, it appears they used what amounts to a federal procurement system loophole to award the work to the Canadian firm.
CGI was one of 16 companies that had been qualified by HHS during President George W. Bush's second term to deliver, without public competition, a variety of hardware, software and communication products and services.
In awarding the Healthcare.gov contract, CMS relied on a little-known federal contracting system called ID/IQ, which is government jargon for Indefinite Delivery and Indefinite Quantity.
CGI was a much smaller vendor when it was approved by HHS in 2007. With the approval, CGI became eligible for multiple awards without public notice and in circumvention of the normal competitive bidding procurement process.
The multiple awards were in the form of task orders for projects of widely varying size. Over the life of the CGI contract which expires in 2017 the IT firm can receive awards worth anywhere from the $1,000 to $4 billion, according to a contracting document provided by CGI to the Washington Examiner.
This is apparently the route chosen by CMS officials in awarding the Obamacare Healthcare.gov website design contract to CGI.
Between 2009 and 2013, CMS officials awarded 185 separate task orders to CGI totaling $678 million for work of all kinds, according to USAspending.gov, a federal spending database.The Obamacare website design contract was for $93 million.
There is no evidence CMS issued any public solicitation for the Obamacare website contract. The Examiner asked both CMS and CGI for copies of any public solicitation notice for the Healthcare.gov task orders. Neither CMS nor CGI furnished any such public notice.
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In awarding the Healthcare.gov contract, CMS relied on a little-known federal contracting system called ID/IQ, which is government jargon for "Indefinite Delivery and Indefinite Quantity."
also known as an As-Needed Contract, selected by RFP. Typically these are for small task orders, of unknown duration, cost. NOT a $400 Mil no-bid job. Think Mooch's Black Thug Amiga executive with CGI may have benefited?
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CGI got kicked off a health care project in Ontario last year for failing to deliver.
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You might think that the Federal procurement process was designed for crony capitalism these days.
It's actually designed with heavy social-engineering aspects that have been legally taken advantage of by entities it was not intended for.
For example, a large services provider can legally set up or enact an arrangement with a business given an advantage under the procurement process. Hence a woman-owned, minority-owned, disabled veteran-owned business providing IT services can receive a federal contract, and then subcontract those services out to a larger IT services provider. Said business may have a physical presence that is nothing more than a 'rented' office cubicle and a phone, or in the case of a business providing a physical item, also a drop-ship facility.
When a race has it's own Princeton "Good Old Boy / Girl" network, can they still be identified as "disadvantaged..?"
[Dawn] US President Barack Obama Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back... has asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... why Pakistain had not yet started the trial of suspected Mumbai attackers.
The prime minister revealed this while talking to the media before leaving Washington after a four-day visit to the United States.
On Wednesday, Mr Sharif had a two-hour long meeting with Mr Obama, which covered all issues of mutual concern.
"He (Obama) asked, why the trial of the (Mumbai) terrorist attack in India has not started yet," Mr Sharif said.
During the meeting, the US president also raised the issue of Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... , cross-border terrorism and Dr Shakil Afridi, the Pak doctor who helped the CIA track down the late Osama bin Laden ... who was laid out deader than a mackerel, right next to the mackerel... and has been in prison since then.
"He (Obama) has raised the issue of (Dr Shakil) Afridi. He spoke about cross-border movement. He also talked about Jamaat-ud-Dawa," the prime minister said, without giving details.
"Pakistain has to put its house in order -- we have to do that -- we will fulfill the responsibility entrusted to us by the people of Pakistain," said Mr Sharif while responding to US concern on this issue.
"We should have managed our house better -- now the nation is suffering -- we have to pull Pakistain out of the difficult phase -- I feel with a sound policy, support of the media, civil society and the nation, we will be able to steer Pakistain out of troubles."
Mr Sharif said he informed Mr Obama that his government was holding a dialogue with the Taliban, a decision backed by all political parties in the country.
"Pakistain has taken a conscious decision," he said, adding that he had asked the United States to back Pakistain on this approach.
Mr Sharif told news hounds that Pakistain's relationship with India was discussed at length and they also reviewed the Kashmire dispute. But he did not say which aspect of the issue he raised and how Mr Obama responded.
The prime minister said he made a strong case for greater Pak trade access to the United States in his meeting with Mr Obama.
"I fulfilled my duty to put on table issues of concern to Pakistain ... talked about all those issues that pertain to Pakistain's illusory sovereignty and respect," he said.
"Economic and energy cooperation, education, extremism issue, Pakistain, Afghanistan, Pakistain-India relations and the Kashmire dispute, the drone issue and the matter of incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Pak scientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui ...American-educated Pak cognitive neuroscientist who was convicted of assault with intent to murder her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan. In September 2010, she was sentenced to 86 years in jug after a three-ring trial. Siddiqui, using the alias Fahrem or Feriel Shahin, was one of six alleged al-Qaeda members who bought $19 million worth of blood diamonds in Liberia immediately prior to 9-11-01. Since her incarceration Paks have taken her to their heart and periodically erupt into demonstrations, while the government tries to find somebody to swap for her... " were the issues he discussed with Mr Obama, the prime minister said.
"We are trying to enforce law -- launched a well thought-out operation 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... because establishment of peace in Karachi will benefit the entire country -- it will help stimulate economic growth by bringing investment -- we have to address (problems) -- we will not let Pakistain remain like this," he said.
"We will fulfil our obligation -- it is doable -- we can make Pakistain much better than what it is today so that coming generations may live a better life -- we want to make Pakistain a model in South Asia."
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The Bammer should be asking that of Penn State INTEL-PYWAR, but I suspect he knows that already, espec as per the late Adjmal Qasab.
* FYI > DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > ADJMAL QASAB WAS SOLD TO TERROR GROUP LeT BY HIS PARENTS FOR 1.5 LAKHS.
[An Nahar] A transgender U.S. woman who claimed to be a surgeon and reportedly injected adhesives and cement into a woman's bottom was sentenced Thursday to a year in jail.
Oneal Ron Morris, 32, accepted a plea deal for one count of illegal practice of health care in what became known as the "toxic tush" case, in Miami Gardens, Florida.
Another suit is pending against Morris, involving the death of a woman who was one of her patients.
Prosecutors said Thursday they could not determine exactly what substances Morris injected in women, many of whom were transgender.
"I think the media picked up on a key word and ran with it," her lawyer, Michael Mier, told the court. "There was no evidence of Fix-a-Flat or Super Glue."
An image that circulated widely in the U.S. press last year showed the woman at question, whose face was altered and who had a grossly swollen rear end.
Photos of Morris, who apparently injected herself with the same toxic mix as evidenced by her large, misshapen hips, also gained traction in the media.
Morris must surrender to authorities on January 7. For the moment, it is not clear what will happen with the murder charge Morris faces for the death of a patient in Broward County, north of Miami.
Morris first came to the attention of authorities in May 2010, when a woman who paid $700 for an operation to increase the size of her buttocks ended up in the hospital with pneumonia and grossly deformed hips, among other issues.
At the time, doctors said her buttocks had been injected with adhesive, tire sealant, mineral oil and cement.
After the story was publicized by the press, Miami Gardens Police reported last year that they had received hundreds of calls from victims of Morris and other supposed doctors who perform the same type of operation in private homes and even hotel rooms in Florida.
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...s/he's a looker - I can understand why someone would like to be V2.0...! The poor victim maybe should have waited, just to see if corrections to errors of nature or whatnot are covered under DemoCare /s:
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There's a whole catalog of 20th Socialist who's bodycount demonstrates the utter lack of conscience about anything but power to impose one's will without regard to human life. For the Left, it is it's own god.
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So what has been happening with Canadian healthcare, Mr. Killa? Any plans to increase the number of MRI and ultrasound machines, so that your countrymen can get tests done at home, instead of coming south to find out what's causing their problems?
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Well, my father just had an MRI done on a bad knee and had to only wait 3 days...and he didn't have to get a second mortgage on his house...funny that...Tea Party wannabes should really stop drinking the neocon Koolaid and try a little Tetley's...
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And exactly WHAT evidence do you have that the Canadian health care system is all bad and broken?? Oh yes, what you read in the NY Post and ogle on Fox News(LOLs). Seems to me that the US system is the one on life-support, pardon the pun....
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The US system was broken, but the Obamacure is worse than the disease. The Canadian system isn't terrible, but it is subsidized by US consumers paying all the R&D costs on most drugs and devices. And, Jerkface, there must be some truth to the anecdotes about long wait times for a lot of tests and services to explain the oversized medical complexes that have grown up in Buffalo and Cleveland.
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death panels are already in place in America's Hat. Hope Jerk needs some expensive care and can't cross into the hated America
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The long waits and multiple tests can be explained easily, it's to jack the price up,
(You want to be certain, don't you) thereby putting the fault on YOU, not them, (Hey you authorized it)
Umm, did you?
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That my money is better spent on abotions and gender surgery in California rather than bad backs and work injuries locally is why I don't take advice from people with a Kindergarten taunt handle.
That I should pay for the oral surgery of meth heads who got caught robbing my neighbors and then pay their disability and grocery bills so they have spare income to buy more drugs is moral? For all I know pa pa is doing elective surgery on his knee to get the pain pills. Then again, if I had to work the basement stairs five times a day to tell my kid to go get a life, I'd understand.
And by the time the collectivists are done with it, it is more likely a Canadian with the wealth to do so will be more likely to visit a medical platform offshore Nova Scotia than jumping the lakes.
Id have to say referring to something as not the end of the world is less than a hardy endorsement. Speaking of ambivalence, at a reunion I recently spoke with Canadian relatives about their national health insurance. All agreed that the coverage is so minimal that it was essential to purchase supplemental private policies. Also, two of the five had medical procedures performed in the States with a third traveling for elective surgery scheduled next month.
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And exactly WHAT evidence do you have that the Canadian health care system is all bad and broken?? Oh yes, what you read in the NY Post and ogle on Fox News(LOLs).
Why no, Mr. Killa. I grew up in Buffalo, where my father was a department head for the oversized cancer institute that served so many Canadian patients. A lot of my parents' friends were doctors there. My husband did research there in his youth, and my sister programmed their supercomputer.
Besides, I never claimed the Canadian system was broken, as it manifestly is not. It's just that y'all may find things a bit different without the southern pressure valve taking care of those willing to spend their own money for faster service, especially for unusual conditions. Or as a formerly Canadian friend of mine commented, "In Canada I can have treatment for my MS quickly and inexpensively, once the diagnostic tests are complete. It's just that I will only be prescribed the old standard medications, and never even know that there are new possibilities to try that work better and have fewer side effects."
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It's funny that y'all have all these anecdotes about the 'evils' of the 'socialist' Canadian health care system and y'all know this guy and that guy, yet I'm a Canadian and I know of nobody who EVER went to the 'America' to get treatment for anything other than the sticker shock of actually needing health care while in Florida on vacation...in other words, I call BULLSH*T on ever comment in this section (except mine of course)...
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Hey, Jerkface. You really live up to your name, don't you.
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One of the ways Canada cuts costs is by playing with the definition of "elective treatments."
When I was up in BC on business there was a case of an Inuit woman with back pain. She could not sit or stand (and obviously could not work). After 2 years her turn came up and she flew down to Vancouver for back surgery. Unfortunately, the had an influx of emergency surgeries, and she was told she'd lost her place in line and try again in 6 months.
They'd defined her treatment as elective even though she couldn't work, stand or sit.
Nice way to save on medical costs, don't cha think? Coming to a clinic near you.
Al
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What should we do, quote their names so you and yours can harrass or otherwise disenfranchise them?
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I know Nova Scotians who had extreme problems with the health service there, but no offfshore surgery boats happened.
They'd defined her treatment as elective even though she couldn't work, stand or sit.
Nice way to save on medical costs, don't cha think? Coming to a clinic near you.
Business opportunity? International waters, procedure then R&R, stabilized surgical room, nurses, helicopter pads, room service, shuffleboard, bingo.
True story: I once knew this fellow who would go about picking fights with people. No idea why, maybe because their jeans were not skinny enough because who in real life does that? At any rate, this fellow would start the arguement talking down to the unfortunate audience using story after personal story and whenever the target would tell their own story or experience this fellow would clap his hands really loud and go La La La La!
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The Canadian system isn't perfect, but in the US system, denying insurance to those with 'pre-existing' conditions, is the sickest, cruellest, most disgusting, fucked-up policy perhaps in human history.
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denying insurance to those with 'pre-existing' conditions, is the sickest, cruellest, most disgusting, fucked-up policy
You are conflating 'insurance' with 'prepaid health care'. Try calling up an auto insurer and tell them you just wrecked your car and want to get insurance coverage for the damage.
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"You are conflating 'insurance' with 'prepaid health care'. Try calling up an auto insurer and tell them you just wrecked your car and want to get insurance coverage for the damage"
Nice. So now you are equating the health care system with car insurance. Way to go, Stevie. Nice to know The Tea Party wannabes think of us humans as just a bunch of Ford Pintos....
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Nice. So now you are equating the health care system with car insurance. Way to go, Stevie. Nice to know The Tea Party wannabes think of us humans as just a bunch of Ford Pintos....
Even nicer: Don't like the facts? Change the subject
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So now you are equating the health care system with car insurance.
No, he's equating health care insurance with car insurance. I've included the Wiki for Insurance, so that we are all on the 'same page'.
Healthcare insurance is not healthcare, just as car insurance is not a car.
What the ACA is, is a mandate that insurance be purchased, hence creating a 'risk pool', i.e., a fund for transferring or distributing risk among those mandated to buy insurance.
In world ruled by mathematics, the insured are therefore protected from a specific risk event, or risk events for a fee, with the fee being dependent upon the frequency and severity of the event(s) occurring.
Example: A cargo from Singapore bound for Amsterdam in the hull of a ship certified by a host nation whose flag it flies, sailing with a competent and certified crew, traveling on safe route, will have a lower risk-level than a cargo traveling from Singapore to, say, Mombasa, in the hull of a ship flying a flag-of-convenience, with a pick-up crew, with the route traversing down the coast of Somalia.
Hence the people that are shipping the cargo on the latter ship will pay higher fees for insurance against loss of the cargo than would the shippers on the former vessel (the shippers in the latter instance would likely pay lower shipping costs, but that's for another time.)
In order for an insurer (private or governmental entity) to not lose their metaphorical shirt paying out on claims, they attempt to manage the risk. That could be done by increasing the risk pool (the Affordable Care Act (ACA)) using statistics to determine the risk of loss or an event, or establishing loss or event parameters up front - suicide not being covered by life insurance, for example. Additionally, certain items may either be not covered or reimbursement schedules will be at the insurer's discretion.
The "tweak" here with the ACA is that the risk pool has deep-shallow payment. Low-risk insurance purchasers will pay more for their low risk of incurring a medical event (pay more for being in the shallow end), in order to subsidize the insurance of those with high risk (being in the deep end.) The need for healthy young people with low health risks and good personal incomes to purchase health insurance is thus required in order to financially cover the health care costs of their statistical opposites. It essence, it is a perversion of what would normally and sanely be defined as "insurance."
Additionally there is a social engineering aspect applied to the ACA. There is a high healthcare risk among pregnant lower-income women both prepartum and postpartum due to many economic and even more social factors.
In order to cover this tragic problem and to standardize policies (as a way to keep administrative costs low) people are mandated to pay for insurance features they may not or will not need, i.e., a post-menopausal woman required to pay for maternity care features provided in her policy.
The other problem with this so-called healthcare reform is that it has the same issues as Medicaid and Medicare. It is payment-reimbursement driven. Obstetrics is a high-risk medical field; factor in the conditions of increased risks from social conditions (lack of or ignoring prenatal care, use of drugs during the pregnancy, poor physical health, etc.) and the risks become higher.
However, the legal system does not necessarily take that into account when a malpractice suit is filed. Insurance fees for insuring against malpractice claims in fields like obstetrics and cardiology are astronomically high. Practitioners in those fields will then take steps to mitigate the risk of a lawsuit and adding to healthcare costs.
Another issue is that nowhere in the ACA (so far) is a list of defined costs for medical procedures, tests, treatment, etc. In fact, medical costs for the same procedure vary widely across the United States. That too is based on risks, on how expensive it is to "do business" and also socially-imposed costs that have to be absorbed until reimbursement is made (if it ever is made.) The mandate that treatment must be provided at emergency rooms regardless of ability to pay, for example. Southern California, particularly the Los Angeles area, have had hospitals close because the costs of operating them are not reimbursed or covered by incoming payments for treatment.
What is covered and not covered, or covered and the quantity and quality also varies widely. Taking the maternity care cost issue, for example, is partially addressed by standardization, but imposes costs on those insured that will never use it. It also leaves open what is covered and not covered, and what will be paid for and not paid for.
We haven't even touched on reimbursement. That too varies widely and there is no, nor are there transparent and publicly available defined reimbursement definitions and schedules .
A nationalized health care plan also adds in healthcare management, but it does not remove managing the risks. Two things must be controlled: expenses and income. I'll leave it to the reader to elaborate on both, but demographics and social engineering factor still play a role.
To repeat: A healthcare system is not healthcare insurance. What is being called healthcare insurance under the Affordable Care Act, is, for the most part, presently neither.
MOSCOW Piracy charges against 30 people who were aboard a Greenpeace ship protesting Arctic drilling have been reduced by Russian authorities to hooliganism, the head of the Investigative Committee announced Wednesday.
In the old Soviet penal code that wasn't a downgrade...
The Russian coast guard seized the Arctic Sunrise after two activists attempted to climb onto an oil rig in the Pechora Sea on Sept. 19, and later towed the ship to Murmansk.
Greenpeace said the protesters expected to face perhaps 15 days in Russian custody, but investigators charged all of those on board with piracy which carries a 15-year sentence and the courts refused to grant bail.
Greenpeace guessed wrong. They thought they were dealing with spineless westerners, not Russians...
The action made global headlines and has roiled relations between Russia and the Netherlands. The Arctic Sunrise was sailing under a Dutch flag, and the Netherlands protested what it said was an illegal seizure in international waters.
Wonder if the Russians will seize the ship "to pay court costs" or something like that...
The incident marks the stiffest crackdown on Greenpeace since French intelligence agents sank the Rainbow Warrior in 1985.
Even President Vladimir Putin, who criticized the protest, said it was clear it did not amount to piracy. But, day after day, defendant after defendant has appeared in the Murmansk courtroom over the past month, and theyve all been sent back to their cells to face trial.
Now, charged instead with hooliganism, they face maximum sentences of seven years, although conviction usually brings much milder punishment.
"Usually" being the key word here. They are not out of the woods...
The Arctic 30 are no more hooligans than they were pirates, a statement issued by Greenpeace said. We will contest the trumped up charge of hooliganism as strongly as we contested the piracy allegations. They are both fantasy charges that bear no relation to reality. The Arctic 30 protested peacefully against Gazproms dangerous oil drilling and should be free.
The 30 defendants hail from 18 countries. Two, Capt. Peter Willcox and Dima Litvinov, are Americans. Greenpeace says all 30 have been held separately in the Murmansk jail and have had difficulty asking for supplies because they dont speak Russian. All have reportedly been visited by consular officials from their respective countries.
Haven't learned to say "Остановить это!" yet?
The investigators move came just hours after the Foreign Ministry announced that Russia would not take part in a tribunal on the ships seizure requested by the Dutch government under the provisions of the International Law of the Sea, which Russia ratified in 1997. The ministry statement says that Russia does not recognize the authority of the tribunal in cases involving sovereignty.
Greenpeace and its allies have noted that the ship, though in Russias economic exclusion zone, was not in Russian territory, and that the convention does not permit signatories to exempt themselves from its provisions.
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[An Nahar] British Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... says shared intelligence with the U.S. has benefited EU states as an eavesdropping row pushes La Belle France and Germany to demand a new code of conduct on data-gathering.
Cameron said Friday he had passed on to European partners information gleaned from intelligence in cooperation with U.S. and other allies that had helped avert terror plots.
He said anger at revelations U.S. spies listened in to calls on German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... 's mobile did not mean governments should legislate to rein in "properly funded intelligence services".
Cameron endorsed an EU summit statement backing French and German moves to negotiate a new understanding on the rules of the spy game with Washington by the end of the year.
But he said media disclosures stemming from runaway former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden which pinpointed the leaders of Brazil and Mexico among perhaps 35 international such figures targeted was harmful in the fight against terror.
The publication of the Snowden files "is frankly signalling to people who mean to do us harm how to evade and avoid" detection, he said, citing a massacre in a Kenyan mall in which at least 67 people died.
"It is going to make our world more dangerous," Cameron said.
To avoid tilting the balance in the fight against terrorism, Cameron maintained that this "means not having some lah-de-dah, airy-fairy law" drawn up at European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... level in Brussels to constrain spy operations with global importance.
"I'm satisfied we have a good framework, a framework that works," Cameron said, making reference notably to a system of cooperation known as 'Five Eyes' -- a long-accepted special relationship between the United States and Britannia with fellow anglo states Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
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And what is the UK doing about the rise of so-called Muslim-imposed/declared, Muslim-patrolled "sharia zones" in London + other major cities-towns???
DON'T FEAR THE JIHADI - FEAR HIS LAWYER [+ ACLU + aligned].
In private, senior White House officials are bitterly complaining about the reasons for the Obamacare website fiasco, offering up excuse after excuse for its failure. We share with you now the top ten excuses they are making for what seems to be an otherwise inexplicable catastrophe.
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10. B Team claimed to be the A Team.
9. Biden insisted on doing some of the coding himself.
8. Programmers spent too much time making out in the snack room with geek-adoring HHS staffers.
7. Complacent Obama aides figured, Hey, this is a U.S. government project. Of course its going to work!
6. While working, programmers sang, The knee bones connected to the thigh bone, the thigh bones connected to the hip bone, the hip bones connected to the back bone, but in web design, its the other way around.
5. Website built by extremists, suicide bombers, kidnappers, and arsonists.
4. Programmer dropped a piece of his Ring Ding in the software, screwing up everything.
3. Should have used orangutans to perform quality control instead of chimpanzees.
2. Dog ate my website.
And the top excuse for the Obama website crash is . . .
1. You just cant get a decent website for $394 million these days.
Count Bloomberg's Margaret Carlson among the ObamaCare supporters who are unhappy, even angry, with the HealthCare.gov debacle:
"The rollout of Obamacare had to be absolutely perfect. Obama needed to treat it like a 21st-century Manhattan Project... Instead, he took the pedestrian route and spent $400 million on a Canadian company that our Good Neighbors to the North once fired for incompetence."
Carlson is being unfair here. ObamaCare is actually just like the Manhattan Project, a government program that produced an awesomely destructive bomb.
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"The rollout of Obamacare had to be absolutely perfect. Obama needed to treat it like a 21st-century Manhattan Project... Instead, he took the pedestrian route and spent $400 million on a Canadian company that our Good Neighbors to the North once fired for incompetence."
The website was done by a fully American subsidiary of CGI...maybe the mistake was getting Americans to do it.
[THEGUARDIAN] Former senator and presidential candidate Rick Santorum ...unsuccessful candidate for president and former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania. He was a lawyer before becoming the Representative for suburban Pittsburgh in 1991. He lost his Senate seat in 2006 to Bob Casey, a Democrat machine politician and political dynast. Santorum is a social conservative who thinks the rest of the country is, too... called the film industry "the devil's playground" as he sought to promote his own film, The Christmas Candle.
Santorum, Republican senator for Pennsylvania between 1995 and 2007 attempted to gain the presidential nomination in 2012 but was defeated by Willard Mitt Romney ...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals.... . He is now CEO of EchoLight Studios, who specifically aim to make family-oriented faith films, and The Christmas Candle, starring Clash of the Titans' Hans Matheson, is their latest release.
Santorum, a devout Catholic, was speaking on the Christian-oriented Trinity Broadcasting Network about the film, and said: "This is a tough business, this is something that we're stepping out ... and the devil, for a long, long time, has had this, these screens, for his playground. And he isn't going to give it up easily."
Santorum also issued a call for the faithful to put their hands in their pockets and pay to see the film and help his business. He said: "I ask for your prayers for me, for our company, for TBN, for all of those involved in The Christmas Candle, and we just want to thank you in advance for everything that you are going to do to help in making this a successful venture."
The Christmas Candle, set in the fictional English village of Gladbury and billed as "a timeless holiday film for the entire family", is released in the US on 22 November.
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It's no good plunking down good money to see a movie just because somebody says it's "the right thing to do" or "it's for a good cause". Make a movie that people want to see and they'll come to see it.
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[Dawn] At least four people, including a leader of the ruling Pakistain Musselmen League-Nawaz (PML-N), were killed in two different incidents in Quetta and Panjgoor town 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... on Friday, police said.
Commissioner Quetta, Usman Gul said gunniesshot up a hotel and killed Rasool Bakhsh Khetran and a companion of his on Masjid road area of Quetta.
The assailants sped away on a cycle of violence after the attack. Police later took the dead bodies to nearby civil hospital for postmortem.
Family members and Khetran rustics brought the dead bodies near Governor House to mourn the killings. The protest resulted in suspension of traffic towards Governor House.
Addressing the incensed protesters, member Balochistan Assembly from Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... (F), Sardar Abdul Rehman Khetran said that the provincial government had completely failed to protect the lives and properties of the masses.
He demanded the arrest of the accused involved in the murder of the PML-N leader. The protesters later dispersed after the assurance of commissioner Quetta division Usman Gul and other high ups.
In another incident, two vehicles were destroyed in a rocket attack in Brewery road area of Quetta. Police said the rocket was fired by unknown gunnies and landed at TB Sanatorium. Fortunately, there was no loss of life as a result of the rocket attack.
Levies also found two mutilated dead bodies in Panjgoor town. A levies official who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter told Dawn.com that two dead bodies were found in Chakal area of Panjgoor. He said that the dead bodies were yet to be identified.
"It seems to be assassination," he said. Mutilated dead bodies are being found in different parts of Balochistan for more than three years. There has been no claim of responsibility for the bullet-riddled bodies.
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[Al Ahram] A Moroccan court on Friday tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! a teenager for three months for threatening to kill US President Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... on Twitter, judicial sources said.
The 17-year-old identified as Soufiane I. pleaded guilty at a Casablanca court to "electronic crimes" and "calling for violence via electronic media," after posting the death threat last year.
"I will kill your president and everyone in his company. It's what I'm going to do when I arrive in the United States next month," the youth wrote on his Twitter feed.
The teenager was nabbed Book 'im, Mahmoud! around two months ago in Casablanca.
He is due to serve his sentence at the city's Oukacha juvenile detention centre, the judicial sources told AFP.
The court hearing was closed to the media, and it was not immediately known whether the young Moroccan's lawyers planned to appeal.
Time spent in pre-trial detention is normally deducted from jail sentences in Morocco.
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Has the guy who is accused of making the schlocky movie that inspired Benghazi violence (sarc on) ever made it out of Obozo's jail?
A car bomb explosion killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens more near a mosque in the Damascus province town of Suq Wadi Barada on Friday, a monitor said.
The town is under rebel control, but troops loyal to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad were positioned right outside it, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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The town is under rebel control, but troops loyal to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad were positioned right outside it, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
[Al Ahram] Police in Athens on Friday said they had tossed in the slammer Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! a Greek couple suspected of having purchased a Roma baby for 4,000 euros ($5,500).
The couple, a 53-year-old man and his 48-year-old wife, told police that they had received the baby girl, then only a few weeks old, from a Roma woman in March.
The woman then unsuccessfully tried to register the baby as her own child.
Private adoption is legal in Greece as long as money is not exchanged in the process.
The case came amid heightened scrutiny by Greek authorities after the discovery of a mysterious blonde girl living in a Roma camp with a couple who were accused of abducting her.
Greece's supreme court has ordered a general review of newborn registrations after the discovery of the blonde girl known as Maria exposed lax recording practices around the country permitting the misuse of state benefits.
Maria's false parents, who were arrested last week, are believed to have declared a total of 14 children to claim increased family support benefits.
Maria is thought to be Bulgarian, and left behind in the Greek Roma camp by her biological mother who could not care for her.
Bulgarian authorities on Thursday questioned a Roma couple thought to be the girl's biological parents. The result of DNA tests to confirm the girl's parentage are expected next month.
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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.
[Al Ahram] Tunisia's Islamist premier Ali Larayedh made a written pledge to step down in a last-ditch bid to rescue crisis talks on Friday that the opposition was threatening to boycott.
North Korea appears to have been digging two new tunnels at a nuclear test site in Punggye-ri, North Hamgyong Province since May, sparking fears that it is preparing for another nuclear test.
A Pakistani court extended the custody of former dictator Pervez Musharraf on Friday, dampening hopes he would be able to leave the country any time soon following months under house arrest and legal wrangling over his fate.
[An Nahar] Tensions surged on Friday in the 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[An Nahar] Two people were killed and at least 15 injured in heavy 
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[An Nahar] Former U.S. vice president Al Gore on Thursday urged President 
JOWHAR, Somalia -- In Labatan-Jirow vicinity, about 60km from Bay regional capital of Baidoa Al Shabaab executed a man accused of raping and then killing a 9-year-old girl.
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[Dawn] Pakistain has told the US that Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped the CIA track down former Al Qaeda leader 
Wazoo
The website for the United States National Security Agency suddenly went offline Friday.
[Dawn] Differences have cropped up between the Nowshera chapters of Pakistain 
[Dawn] 
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez faces one of the most important elections of her career on Sunday, and aides say she's not even following the news. 
[Dawn] Violence broke out in the strife-hit areas of 
JOWHAR, Somalia -- At least four civilians died and 14 others were wounded in grenade explosion that targeted the Somali Federal Government soldiers at market in Janale village of Lower Shabelle region of southern Somalia, Garowe Online reports.
Aafia Siddiqui
[An Nahar] A transgender U.S. woman who claimed to be a surgeon and reportedly injected adhesives and cement into a woman's bottom was sentenced Thursday to a year in jail.
David Cameron
A car bomb explosion killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens more near a mosque in the Damascus province town of Suq Wadi Barada on Friday, a monitor said. 
[Al Ahram] Police in Athens on Friday said they had 
