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My personal opinion - they are innocent of murder or any other charge that directly covers the killings but are guilty of trying to cover up what happened. The situation was chaotic, then-available information totally inconsistent, stress very high, preparation impossible and previous training absent, and these policemen were among the relatively few who stay on the job. The whole prosecution and trial was political show aimed at placating racial militancy.
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What I read in the media during & shortly after Katrina damned police conduct quite well enough. The case should have been tried in 2006. We all know police in the USA do no wrong, ever.
Insufficient frame of reference. In fact, media errors & exaggeration contributed heavily to the situation. While post-shooting police conduct was indeed damnable, it is unjust to the shootings themselves by 'normal' standards as conditions were FAR from normal.
The state Department of Natural Resources on Wednesday refused a directive from the National Park Service to close a host of popular state properties because of the federal government shutdown.
The park service ordered state officials to close the northern unit of the Kettle Moraine, Devil's Lake, and Interstate state parks and the state-owned portion of the Horicon Marsh, but state authorities rebuffed the request because the lion's share of the funding came from state, not federal coffers.
State officials opted to keep public lands open as Gov. Scott Walker blamed both Republicans and Democrats for the partial government shutdown and said congressional leaders should run the nation more like Wisconsin. Democrats balked at those comments, saying the Republican governor has had a tumultuous tenure that has divided people.
Even though federal lands such as the Apostle Islands National Lakeshorehave been shuttered, the DNR issued a statement saying all state parks, trails and other recreational properties were open and not affected by the federal government's budget problems.
The agency also reopened a boat launch Wednesdayat Wyalusing State Park on the Mississippi River. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service closed the launch on Tuesday because it was on federal land.
But in a sign of defiance, the DNR removed the barricades at the landing, saying it had the legal authority to operate the launch under a 1961 agreement with the federal government.
On Tuesday, vast swaths of land were closed by the federal government because of the budget stalemate.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service closed all its properties, including the Upper Mississippi National Wildlife Refuge and the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge. The agency said that fishing and hunting on those lands were prohibited.
The Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest also was closed. But the status of hunting and fishing on the 1.5 million acres was unclear. DNR officials gave no indication they would try to stop the public from using the forests.
On Wednesday, state and federal authorities came to loggerheads over access to state land when the Park Service directed the DNR to close properties in which the state and the federal government had a cooperative financial agreement.
The federal agency provided the DNR $701,000 for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, according to the DNR. The DNR said the majority of money for the parks comes from the state and that it would use state funds to continue operations.
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..given that they forced a recall election were the gov got an even greater percentage of the vote. Of course in most political entities where the people are not 'divided' are usually defined as a single party dictatorship.
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The Obama administration and his cronies are bound and determined to 'Make it HURT'.
"How DARE the House of Representatives manage the budget and decide what does and does not get funded!" is, in effect, what Dinty Harry said when asked if he would pass the bill to fund cancer centers.
I don't think even Hollywood could come up with a more slimy person than Reid - and they know slimy people!
Exactly. The Founders were all about keeping things decentralized, so as to preserve decision-making power at the lowest level. Gridlock and shutdown is a symptom of tyrants trying to impose top-down, one-size-fits-all policies that a lot of people don't want, and a sign that our government is functioning as the Constitution intended. Mr. Constitutional Law Professor would know that, if he had been educated rather than indoctrinated.
[An Nahar] Police in Somalia said Wednesday they were questioning a man accused of beheading four of his children more than three years after divorcing their mother.
Omar Shire Hassan was apprehended late Tuesday by the police in the central Somalia town of Beledweyne, situated about 300 kilometers (190 miles) north of the capital, a few hours after allegedly murdering the children who were between three and eight years old.
"The dead bodies of the four children were found near a village and have been buried. The man handed himself in and is in custody now. I think he is not mentally fit but we are questioning him," regional police commissioner Colonel Isak Ali Abdulle said.
He said police understood the man had recently returned to Somalia from Canada, but said the motive for the crime was unclear.
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to avenge his Islamic "honor", of course
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the man had recently returned to Somalia from Canada
Another nice Islamic boy radicalised in Canada, eh?
[MAGHAREBIA] Mauritanian police tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! some 16 members of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA), Al Akhbar reported on Tuesday (October 1st). The arrests occurred in Boutilimit, near Nouakchott, where activists had organised a sit-in to protest the lack of prosecution of alleged slavery cases.
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's 50 member constitution-drafting committee announced on Tuesday that the Senate Council - replacing the Shura Council as the upper chamber of Parliament - would have a separate electoral law to wider parliamentary elections.
"The Senate council will be elected under a different law. Its advantage will be to include competent candidates that will not be able to win votes in the House of Representatives," the official front man for the 50-member committee, Mohammed Salmawy, said in a presser held on Tuesday.
The Systems of Governance 10-member committee has agreed to the formation of a new Senate Council with different powers to the previous upper house, according to Salmawy.
"The Senate Council will bring legislative balance and prevent party dominance in the parliament," he added.
The constitution-drafting committee, assigned to amend the suspended 2012 constitution, is expected to finish its first draft of amendments before the Eid feast next weekend.
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[An Nahar] Guinean President Alpha Conde on Wednesday urged party leaders to accept the results of September 28 legislative polls, as security was ramped up in the capital amid fears of violence.
With results trickling in, Conde praised the vote as the dawn of democracy in the chronically unstable west African nation.
But the opposition has already complained of rigging during the election, which was meant to turn the page on a protracted transitional period.
Guinea's electoral commission on Tuesday released some partial and provisional results.
Full provisional results had been due on Wednesday, but officials said tally sheets were still being transported from polling stations on Tuesday.
"I would like to say how proud I am... of your amazing mobilization to make these legislative polls a real success," Conde said in a speech marking the 55th anniversary of Guinea's independence from La Belle France.
The election "has allowed us to take another step on the path to democracy," the 75-year-old leader said.
The top U.N. official in West Africa, Said Djinnit, also warned against any attempt to challenge the impending results in the street.
He urged "political parties to respect the verdict of the ballot box and... resort to legal means to settle any dispute that might arise from the polls."
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[Al Ahram] Kuwaiti security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades Wednesday to disperse hundreds of stateless residents demanding citizenship and basic rights, activists and witnesses said.
Known locally as bidoons, the demonstrators turned out to mark the international day of non-violence despite a stern warning by the interior ministry that it would deal firmly and harshly with any protest.
At least eight people were incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! when riot police backed by armoured vehicles tried to break up the protest by force, the National Committee for Monitoring Violations -- a non-governmental rights group, said on its Twitter account.
The head of the Kuwait Society for Human Rights, Mohammad al-Humaidi, said on Twitter that police used tear gas to disperse the peaceful rally and that several arrests were made.
Earlier in the day, stateless school children gathered outside a number of schools in Jahra, 50 kilometres (31 miles) west of Kuwait City, carrying banners calling the 106,000 bidoons to be granted citizenship.
Riot police have forcibly dispersed protests over the past two years, using stun grenades and tear gas, and arresting hundreds who are now on trial for holding illegal gatherings and assaulting police.
Bidoons were born and raised in Kuwait and claim they have the right to Kuwaiti citizenship, but the government says only 34,000 of them qualify for consideration, while the rest hold other nationalities.
Although parliament has repeatedly supported government plans for granting bidoons citizenship, the process has been slow.
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[An Nahar] Colombia's leftist FARC guerrillas said Wednesday they have been victims of "cyber espionage," and suggested the U.S. National Security Agency may be to blame.
Recent revelations by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden have exposed the NSA's far-reaching electronic surveillance of phone records and Internet traffic.
"This news does not surprise us. On the contrary, it confirms what we have been saying," the rebels said.
"We have been the victims of sabotage and espionage for a long time, especially when it comes to using virtual communications to express our ideas and reasons to fight."
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC or FARC-EP, is either a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization or a drug cartel based in Colombia. It claims to represent the rural poor in a struggle against Colombia's wealthier classes, and opposes United States influence in Colombia, neo-imperialism, monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the usual raft of complaints. It funds itself principally through ransom kidnappings, taxation of the drug trade, extortion, shakedowns, and donations. It has lately begun calling itself Bolivarian and is greatly admired by Venezuela's President-for-Life Chavez, who seemingly fantasizes about living in the woods and kidnapping people himself. He provides FARC with safe areas along the border. said its news agency's website was "blocked by unknown agents."
The rebels have been negotiating since November 2012 a peace agreement in Havana with the Colombian government to end half a century of conflict. They are set to launch a new round of talks on Thursday.
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Matched by yesterday's expulsion of American diplomats from Venezuela. The Caracas-FARC cartel.
[An Nahar] Thomson Reuters chief executive Tuesday warned employees of "tough decisions" ahead for the media and financial information group, which has already announced 2,500 layoffs since the beginning of the year.
CEO James Smith announced the appointment of a new "chief transformation officer," Neil Masterson, to help direct the shifts planned for the British-Canadian company.
"I know we'll have to take many tough decisions to redirect our efforts toward our future potential," Smith wrote in a letter to the company's 60,000 salaried employees, extracts of which were published on the web site The Baron.
The web site includes former Reuters employees and focuses on company news.
"We need to simplify our business," Smith said in the letter.
"We need to respond to opportunities more quickly. We need to better align resources behind our most promising growth opportunities," he said.
"We need to do a better job of sharing resources across the organization. And we need to attack internal bureaucracy once and for all."
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They might succeed as news organizations if they actually reported ALL the news, instead of omitting and slanting and spinning thing politically. It's called Trust. Not given, but earned. The press had it, but is no longer worthy of it, so down they go. Good riddance to these Pravda-like organizations that have become little more than propaganda orifices for the state and the left.
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My personal favorite comment from this post comes from BrendaK:
BrendaK
October 2, 2013 at 11:48 pm
Here in Georgia, we have so far been able to repel the roving bands of cannibals (made up furloughed government employees and laid-off defense contract workers) but were running out of ammo. We only have 16,000 rounds left for the shotgun, and about 1/2 that for the rifle.
These are the dark days, the end time. Pray for us.
A study by the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies (JIMS) has found that legalizing cannabis would generate more than 1.6 billion shekels per year for the Israeli economy.
The position paper released Wednesday states that the Israeli black market for cannabis is worth an annual sum of 2.5 billion shekels. The introduction of taxation following any legalization of the drug, the paper claims, would bring in revenue of some 950 million shekels, while the judicial system would save another 700 million shekels if marijuana-related prosecutions were to end.
The study says that cannabis-related offenses in Israel are responsible for 5.2 percent of the country's criminal cases and 5.4 percent of its prisoners.
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.
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
[An Nahar] Thomson Reuters chief executive Tuesday warned employees of "tough decisions" ahead for the media and financial information group, which has already announced 2,500 layoffs since the beginning of the year.
