MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Nearly a dozen people were injured and one killed in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, during a weekend shooting involving an officer, according to police.
Police said just before midnight Saturday, officers with the Myrtle Beach Police Department saw a disturbance involving multiple individuals in the 900 block of North Ocean Boulevard.
Brite Shalom Acoya and her twin brother 5-year-old twins shot, one killed, in shootout at Greenville Co. apartment complex; 3 arrests made
They said one person began shooting and, based on the immediate threat, an officer fired his gun.
They said 11 others were injured but police did not give any details on those injuries.
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is investigating the case, which is standard when an officer fires a weapon.
[NYPOST] A crazed patient hacked a Kansas City paramedic to death inside his ambluence while he was taking her to the hospital — and she had just been released on bail for allegedly biting a cop days earlier, according to authorities.
Graham Hoffman, a 29-year-old paramedic and firefighter with the Kansas City Fire Department (KCFD), died Sunday while responding to a welfare check for a woman found wandering along a highway and bleeding heavily from her hand around 1 a.m.
The woman, 39-year-old Shanetta Boswell, initially refused help from Hoffman and police, but then changed her mind and agreed to be taken to the hospital for treatment, authorities told KSHB.
But on the way there, she allegedly attack paramedics. Cops who were following the the ambulance reported that it suddenly veered off the road and the driver lept out in a panic and opened the back doors to help his colleague while shouting ''she has a knife.''
Inside, Hoffman was found bleeding heavily from the chest. Authorities said Boswell attempted to fight police and drive off with the ambulance — biting an officer on the arm as he drew his weapon, according to cops.
As officers fought to subdue her, the ambulance driver attempted to revive Hoffman as he slipped out of consciousness. But it was too late, and he was later pronounced dead after being rushed to a nearby hospital, authorities said.
Boswell was charged with first degree murder and is being held on $1 million bond.
Boswell also faces charges of resisting/interfering with arrest and third-degree assault.
Just days before the attack she had been let go for another alleged assault on a public servant, authorities said.
In that incident, Boswell allegedly sank her teeth into a police officer who was attempting to arrest her on April 23, according to KSHB.
She was charged with second-degree assault and resisting arrest — but posted her $10,000 bond and was released sometime before Hoffman's murder over the weekend.
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Decades ago during a training session I rode with an EMS crew of a major city system. It was a great learning experience. One of the paramedics carried a concealed pistol for just this eventuality. Probably he was in violation of some protocol or law, we didn't discuss it. Up to that point he never had to use it. Years ago I also worked with an ER doctor who formerly had been a GP in Detroit. He got shot by a patient in his office and so decided to leave that practice and locality. He carried a very short pistol in an ankle holster when working in an ER. He too never had to use it. He wound up dying peacefully in his sleep, taking a nap while on duty. The nurses discovered him when he didn't answer phone calls to his room.
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I think they meant shot, Seeking Cure. I’m not sure why the writer thought he had to asterisk the word — I thought that was reserved for cuss words.
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#2 I think they meant shot, Seeking Cure. I’m not sure why the writer thought he had to asterisk the word — I thought that was reserved for cuss words.
Youtube, Facebook and other socialist media entities require their users, especially the ones who get ad revenue, to self-censor words relating to sex and violence.
[NYPOST] The sicko accused of sexually violating a dead body on a Lower Manhattan subway train was arrested Sunday night, police said. Ewwwww!
Felix Rojas, 44, was charged with rape nearly three weeks after he allegedly assaulted the body of the dead man on an R train near the Whitehall Street station, according to the NYPD.
The victim was identified as 37-year-old family man Jorge Gonzalez, who mysteriously died on the train and was then allegedly targeted by Rojas.
The suspect, Felix Rojas, turned himself in to police on Sunday, sources said.The suspect, Felix Rojas, turned himself in to police on Sunday, sources said. DCPI
Rojas, of Brooklyn, turned himself in to police with his son on Sunday, sources said.
His son?? Aren’t parents supposed to protect their children from such things?
Gonzalez boarded the subway around 8 p.m. April 8 before the suspect got on about three hours later — though it's unclear where — sources previously told The Post.
The NYPD blasted out an image of the suspect on the train before an arrest was made.
It was not immediately clear what led to Gonzalez's death, though his estranged wife said he dealt with alcoholism and cirrhosis.
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[Regnum] Two-time Oscar winner Gene Hackman, 95, has died of heart problems. This was reported by the Fox News channel.
The New Mexico Medical Examiner's Office has released the final autopsy results.
It turned out that the actor had congestive heart failure, as well as chronic hypertension with kidney damage. In addition, Hackman suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
According to his medical history, Hackman had a pacemaker installed in 2019. He also had bypass surgery and an aortic valve replacement.
It is also noted that Hackman was left without food. This is evidenced by the presence of acetone in the blood, caused by starvation in diabetes.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, Hackman was found dead in his Santa Fe home on February 26. The police also found the body of his wife, 63-year-old pianist Betsy Arakawa. Experts concluded that Arakawa died on February 11, and Hackman a week later, on February 18. The actor, left alone, was probably unable to take care of himself.
Hackman won his first Oscar for his role as William Friedkin in The French Connection (1971). He won his second for his role in Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven (1992).
Hackman is also known for his roles in the films The Conversation (1974), Superman (1978), Mississippi Burning (1988), The Firm (1993), and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001).
He has also co-authored the books Awakening the Perdido Star (1999), Justice for None (2004), Vermillion (2004), and Escape from Andersonville (2008) with Daniel Lenihan, and has released two solo albums, Payback at Morning Peak (2011) and Pursuit (2013).
Classic scene from a classic film:
Gene Hackman in Young Frankenstein (1974) Gene was tennis partners with Gene Wilder. After hearing Wilder was making a Mel Brooks comedy, Hackman asked if he could have a role. He was offered the blind hermit which thrilled Brooks. He nailed it, even ad-libbing the espresso line. pic.twitter.com/FLroO983r5
[IsraelTimes] The US Department of Education alleges that the University of Pennsylvania’s policy on transgender athletes violates federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sex in programs that receive federal funding.
The Education Department says in a statement that it has proposed a resolution agreement to the university under which the Ivy League school would issue a statement saying it will comply with federal law, transfer records and awards won by transgender athletes to athletes assigned female at birth, and issue a letter of apology to the female athletes.
The department says the university has 10 days to resolve or risk a referral to the US Justice Department for enforcement proceedings.
The Education Department does not immediately respond to a request for comment on what kind of enforcement actions it seeks. The university has no immediate comment.
The university, which made national headlines in 2022 when a transgender swimmer competed on its women’s team, has previously said it “has always followed NCAA and Ivy League policies regarding student participation on athletic teams,” and remains in full compliance with regulations.
Following US President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban transgender athletes from participating in female-only school sports, the NCAA — the governing body for US collegiate sports — updated its rules to limit competition in female-only competitions to athletes assigned female at birth.
Last month, Trump’s administration suspended $175 million in funding to the University of Pennsylvania over its transgender sports policies.
This month, the administration sued Maine over the same issue. Maine argues that federal law does not prohibit transgender girls in women’s sports.
Lol I love these humiliation rituals.
The universities just want to leave this stuff behind and pretend it never happened.
The Department of Education on Monday announced that its Office for Civil Rights found the University of Pennsylvania had violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 by allowing biological males to compete in women's sports and enter intimate women's facilities.
Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor said in a statement, "Little girls who look up to Riley Gaines and Paula Scanlan can find hope in today's action — the Trump Administration will not allow male athletes to invade female private spaces or compete in female categories. UPenn has a choice to make: do the right thing for its female students and come into full compliance with Title IX immediately or continue to advance an murderous Moslem political project that violates federal antidiscrimination law and puts UPenn's federal funding at risk."
The Office for Civil Rights issued the school a proposed Resolution Agreement to resolve the violations, which the school has 10 days to resolve or risk a referral to the Department of Justice.
Outlined in the agreement are requirements that the school issue a statement saying that it would comply with Title IX in athletic programs; restore the achievements, titles, records, and other accolades won by female athletes who had been defeated by biological males in Division I swim races; and send a letter to each female athlete who has her recognition restored apologizing "on behalf of the University for allowing her educational experience in athletics to be marred by sex discrimination."
[DAILYWIRE] Nike is getting blasted for its insensitivity in using a phrase associated with the Holocaust only three days after Yom HaShoah, when Jews around the world mark the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis in the Holocaust.
Nike installed signs along the London Marathon route emblazoned, ''Never again, until next year.''
What does that even mean?
''As a Jew living in London, I felt shocked, hurt, and angry to see the use of words in this context, even if no doubt in reference to the temporary pain of running 26 miles,'' retired British judge Nigel Litman told Walla.
[IsraelTimes] Footware giant said it meant to inspire runners with London banner, as Jewish figures express shock that nobody on staff had realized it trivializes the Holocaust.
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In the marathon context - I think the phrase is directed at the runners. As in - you're at mile 19 and you realize this was a bad idea. I'm never gonna do this again. Ask me how I know!
I doubt the marketing person ever heard of the Holocaust or knows much about WW2....
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About those Nike marketing folks— from a mere month after thw 10/7 Hamas invasion, they know plenty that isn’t so:
[Space.com] Earth-observing satellites reveal significant ground shift in central Myanmar following the devastating earthquakes that ravaged the area in March.
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Copernicus Sentinel-1A satellite captured radar images of the country just one day before a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck on March 28. The Sentinel-1C satellite revisited the site a few days later, capturing the aftermath of the seismic event.
"Using satellite radar images, scientists can map the extent of ruptures and identify areas of increased seismic risk," ESA officials said in a statement. "Some of you are foocked"
ESA's Sentinel-1 mission includes two satellites positioned 180 degrees apart in orbit above Earth, enabling them to collectively scan the entire globe every six days. Sentinel-1's advanced radar imaging capabilities, including Terrain Observation with Progressive Scans and burst overlap interferometry, allow for precise measurement of ground motion in both east-west and north-south directions.
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[KhaamaPress] The WHO reported that over 100 children in Afghanistan and Pakistain were paralyzed last year due to wild 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. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... virus.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that despite significant progress, over 100 children in Afghanistan and Pakistain were paralyzed last year due to the wild poliovirus. These setbacks highlight the ongoing challenges in eradicating polio in the region.
The WHO hosted the 13th meeting of the Regional Subcommittee on Polio Eradication and Outbreak Response virtually on Sunday. During the meeting, experts identified conflicts, humanitarian crises, insecurity, and climate change as complicating factors that hinder efforts to eliminate polio.
Dr. Mansoor Bin Ibrahim Al Mahmoud, the Minister of Health of Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , emphasized that polio remains one of the region’s most critical public health priorities. He stressed that any threat to children’s health and well-being must be addressed immediately.
In response to a reduction in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s budget and its impact on essential healthcare services, including child vaccinations, WHO has implemented emergency measures to ensure vital activities continue in endemic countries affected by polio outbreaks.
Ministers of health or their representatives from Iraq, Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... , Paleostine, Oman, Pakistain, Qatar, the UAE, and Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... participated in the meeting. The discussions focused on intensifying regional efforts to reach children who have not been vaccinated, aiming to protect them from polio and other preventable diseases.
The subcommittee issued a statement on halting the transmission of the wild poliovirus in Afghanistan and Pakistain. They called on member countries, donors, and the international community to continue supporting these two remaining endemic countries to accelerate efforts towards eradicating polio. Despite the challenges, the global community must persist in its fight to eliminate polio and safeguard future generations.
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[Regnum] At the end of April, record frosts for this month were recorded in the Moscow Region. This was stated on April 28 by Mikhail Leus, a leading specialist at the Phobos weather center.
“The last week of April in the capital region began with record frosts,” Leus noted.
In Mozhaisk, the temperature dropped to -4.2°C. This is 0.7 degrees lower than the previous record for this day, set in 1971.
“In Klin, the minimum last night was -5.9°C - such a low temperature on April 28 in this city near Moscow has not been seen since at least the beginning of the 21st century,” Leus reported on his Telegram channel.
The weather forecaster noted that no more frosts are expected in April this year.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on April 27, the scientific director of the Russian Hydrometeorological Center, Roman Vilfand, said that a cold snap is expected throughout the country in early May. In the Northwestern and Central Federal Districts, as well as in Moscow, night temperatures will be around zero, and daytime temperatures will be around +10°C.
[FoxBusinessNews] International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), one of the nation's largest technology employers, is planning to invest $150 billion in the U.S. "over the next five years to fuel the economy and to accelerate its role as the global leader in computing," according to a media release.
"Technology doesn’t just build the future — it defines it," Arvind Krishna, IBM chairman, president and chief executive officer, said in a statement. "We have been focused on American jobs and manufacturing since our founding 114 years ago, and with this investment and manufacturing commitment we are ensuring that IBM remains the epicenter of the world’s most advanced computing and AI capabilities."
Krishna will appear in an exclusive interview on The Claman Countdown on Fox Business at 3 p.m. EST.
IBM was founded in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, and was renamed in 1924, according to its website. The company says its innovations "enabled the U.S. social security system, the Apollo Program that put a man on the moon, and power businesses in every industry."
The company manufactures mainframe high-performance computers in Poughkeepsie, New York, "that are the technology backbone of the American and global economies. More than 70% of the entire world’s transactions by value run through the IBM mainframes that are manufactured right here in America."
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[Regnum] In Spain and Portugal, power has been partially restored after a massive power outage on the Iberian Peninsula. This is reported by the Reuters agency.
Officials from both countries said the reasons for the outage were unclear, with Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro stressing there was "no indication" a cyberattack was to blame.
"We do not yet have definitive information about the causes of this (power outage. - Ed.)," Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez noted in his address to the nation.
According to him, almost 50% of electricity supply has been restored in Spain by now. The country's leadership was forced to resort to using fuel reserves, he added.
The agency notes that in Spain, power began to return to the Basque Country and Barcelona early in the day, and to some parts of Madrid on Monday evening.
Power supply also gradually began to be restored in various municipalities in Portugal late in the evening, including Lisbon, as well as in the cities of Porto and Coimbra.
In some parts of the Pyrenees, the power outage lasted more than 9 hours. Local media reported that the Spanish and Portuguese began stocking up on food and water amid the outages.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, a large-scale power outage in Spain and Portugal occurred on April 28. Traffic was in chaos on city streets due to the shutdown of traffic lights, there were disruptions at the Madrid-Barajas International Airport, and the operation of the Lisbon Airport was paralyzed.
The Spanish government called an emergency meeting of the National Security Council in connection with the blackout. Among others, the Prime Minister, the Chief of the General Staff and the Director of the country's intelligence service were summoned to it.
Sky News, citing information from Portuguese electricity grid operator Redes Energéticas Nacionais, reported that a "rare atmospheric phenomenon" was the cause of the widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal.
According to the TV channel, the blackout affected Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville and Lisbon in particular. Water supply stations were left without electricity, and the Internet was down. Restoration work is underway. At the same time, the situation in Spain has begun to normalize.
At the same time, another Portuguese power grid operator, E-Redes, said that the blackout was caused by problems with the European power supply system. Officially, the reasons for the large-scale accident have not yet been named.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division said she's happy to see hundreds of attorneys leave her jurisdiction because they'd rather practice 'woke ideology.'
Veteran lawyers are among the hundreds who have bolted from the office over Trump's desire to have them go after antisemitism on college campuses, The New York Times reported.
The president also wants them dealing with sanctuary cities exacerbating the country's migrant crisis.
Harmeet K. Dhillon, who now runs the civil rights division under Trump, is telling them not to let the door hit them on the way out.
'Now, over 100 attorneys decided that they'd rather not do what their job requires them to do, and I think that's fine,' Dhillon told Glenn Beck.
'We don't want people in the federal government who feel like it's their pet project to go persecute police departments or persecute people praying outside abortion facilities,' she said.
'The job here is to enforce the federal civil rights laws, not woke ideology.'
She did admit that she will have to hire a lot of people and fast, or 'we're going to run out of attorneys.'
Over 100 lawyers are expected to accept what Dhillon describes as a 'generous severance package that pays them for several months while they do nothing.'
Dhillon also plans to stop the Biden administration's plan to pursue cases in support of transgender prison inmates.
'The prior administration's arguments in transgender inmate cases were based on junk science,' Dhillon said.
'The prior administration's nonsensical reading of the Americans With Disabilities Act was an affront to the very people the statute intended to protect.'
Trump announced a 'proud new chapter' of the Justice Department that would end the 'weaponization' of government in a speech in March that revisited his old wounds and allowed him to gloat.
'We are turning the page on four long years of corruption, weaponization and surrender to violent criminals and we are restoring fair, equal and impartial justice under the law,' Trump said, standing before the seal of the Department of Justice.
[FoxNews] 'That's a very commonsense policy,' Leavitt said of the upcoming executive order
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order requiring truck drivers to pass English literacy tests, which will bolster road safety, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Trump will sign an "order directing the Department of Transportation to include English literacy tests for our truckers. This is a big problem in the trucking community," Leavitt said on Monday afternoon during a press conference with new members of the media. The press conference was separate from a White House press briefing earlier Monday morning.
Trump is expected to sign the executive order late Monday afternoon, Leavitt said.
"You might not know, but there's a lot of communication problems between truckers on the road with federal officials and local officials, as well, which obviously is a public safety risk," Leavitt continued. "So we're going to ensure that our truckers, who are the backbone of our economy, are all able to speak English. That's a very commonsense policy."
The order directs Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy "to rescind guidance that watered down the law requiring English proficiency for commercial drivers," and to "carry out additional administrative, regulatory, or enforcement actions to improve the working conditions of America’s truck drivers," according to details provided to Fox News Digital by a White House official.
"President Trump believes that English is a non-negotiable safety requirement for professional drivers, as they should be able to read and understand traffic signs; communicate with traffic safety officers, border patrol, agricultural checkpoints, and cargo weight-limit station personnel; and provide and receive feedback and directions in English," the White House official shared.
Truckers who are unable to prove they are proficient in English will be "placed out-of-service, enhancing roadway safety," according to the White House.
Fox News' Will Cain reported earlier in April on "The Will Cain Show" that trucking experts reported that there has been an influx of foreign-born truckers in recent years.
Cain, citing experts, reported that former President Barack Obama's administration in 2016 stopped an English requirement for drivers from being enforced, while the Biden-Harris administration in 2024 promoted an initiative that increased truck driving training opportunities for refugees, which has increased the number of foreign-born truck drivers operating in the U.S.
Trump's anticipated executive order comes after he lauded truckers during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, under his first administration, for their work delivering goods to stores as the nation locked down.
"American truckers are the foot soldiers who are really carrying us to victory," Trump said in April 2020 from the White House. "They’ve done an incredible job. We’ve had no problems. It’s been just – it’s been just great."
[Weatherboy] A giant rocket is scheduled to be launched along the U.S. East Coast this evening, providing residents from Florida to New England with the opportunity of seeing an Amazon mission unfold with the naked eye. United Launch Alliance (ULA) is scheduled to lift-off their Atlas 5 rocket with a batch of 27 of Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet satellites. These are the first production satellites that will make up Amazon’s satellite internet megaconstellation which will ultimately include 3,236 satellites. Amazon hopes to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite-based internet service with these new rockets.
The launch is scheduled to occur at or after 7 pm this evening from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the central coast of Florida. After lift-off, the rocket will travel north and east along the U.S. East Coast, giving those looking off into the eastern sky the opportunity to see the rocket accelerate into space. The launch window is set from 7-9 pm, which means the rocket can launch at any time within that window.
ULA is flying its Atlas 5 in the 551 configuration, which features five solid rocket boosters and a medium-length payload fairing. ULA had initially tried to launch its rocket on April 9 but that attempt was scrubbed due to poor weather.
As the rocket heads north and east off the Florida coast, boosters will be jettisoned from the rocket, giving those along the southeast coast an interesting view. The rocket will be without boosters by the time it passes off the North Carolina coast, but even those in the Mid Atlantic and southeastern New England would be able to see the rocket with high pressure there providing for good viewing conditions.
Kuiper Systems LLC, also known as Project Kuiper, is a subsidiary of Amazon that was established in 2019 to deploy a large satellite internet constellation to provide low-latency broadband connectivity. The name Kuiper was a company codename for the project inspired by the Kuiper belt. The Kuiper Belt is a region beyond Neptune’s orbit, filled with icy bodies, dwarf planets, and other small objects. It’s considered a remnant of the solar system’s formation and is thought to be a source of comets. The Kuiper Belt is roughly shaped like a disk or doughnut, with its inner edge starting at Neptune’s orbit and extending outward.
Amazon’s $10 billion plans to establish this internet network includes 80 launches like today’s. Establishing the internet constellation will require a series of rocket launches to get the satellites into space, but this initiative is separate from Amazon founder JeffBezos’ Blue Origin spaceflight company.
That was yesterday. We now have a report that it went off without a hitch:
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] A crazed patient hacked a Kansas City paramedic to death inside his ambluence while he was taking her to the hospital — and she had just been released on bail for allegedly biting a cop days earlier, according to authorities.
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
[FoxBusinessNews] International Business Machines Corporation (
