[NEWSMAX] A reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... shooting at a kid's birthday party left seven people maimed, one critically, early Sunday morning, Fox News reported.
It is unclear what sparked the incident, but police reported that the attackers arrived at the scene in west suburban Aurora on bikes and foot and fired multiple rounds before fleeing.
"The only suspect information we were able to gather is that the shots were fired by several males dressed in dark hooded sweatshirts," The Aurora Police department said on Facebook, adding that it appeared as if someone at the party returned fire.
The department noted that party attendees were "largely uncooperative."
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Moving into the 'road-repair' and 'drive by' shooting season in beautiful downtown Aurora. I blame the weather.
[PATCH] A former Baltimore detective was sentenced to federal prison time. He was the second officer from the Baltimore Police Department to be sentenced Thursday in a case that brought to light a corrupt contingent within the eighth largest municipal police department in the U.S.
Former Detective Marcus Roosevelt Taylor, 30, of Glen Burnie, entered a plea of not guilty in the federal racketeering case. He was sentenced hours after the highest ranking officer in the racketeering conspiracy was ordered to serve federal prison time.
Seven members of the 3,100-member Baltimore Police Department were indicted in the federal racketeering case. Sgt. Wayne Jenkins, who headed up the gun trace task force, was sentenced to 25 years Thursday morning after pleading guilty to his role in the racketeering conspiracy.
The same judge was responsible for sentencing in Taylor's case Thursday afternoon, ruling he must serve 18 years in federal prison.
A federal jury convicted Taylor in February of racketeering conspiracy, racketeering and Hobbs Act robbery. The Hobbs Act involves corruption of public officials using their positions of power to extort or rob.
At the three-week trial, prosecutors presented evidence showing Taylor stole money, property and narcotics from victims, including people who had not committed any crimes. He stole between $200 and $200,000 from his victims, according to authorities, who said he also falsified reports and committed overtime fraud.
Taylor was a member of the gun trace task force, a now disbanded unit in the Baltimore Police Department that was formed to take guns off the streets. Instead, prosecutors said Taylor and other members of the force stole drugs and weapons from those they detained, in some cases without filing a police report.
U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Taylor on Thursday afternoon to 18 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for racketeering conspiracy and related offenses, including robbery and overtime fraud.
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[WAPO] Two pivotal developments this week could dramatically expand the power and footprint of major telecom companies, altering how Americans access everything from political news to "Game of Thrones" on the Internet.
Monday marks the official end of the U.S. government’s net neutrality rules, which had required broadband providers such as AT&T, Charter, Comcast and Verizon to treat all Web traffic equally. The repeal is part of a campaign by Ajit Pai, the Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, to deregulate the telecom industry in a bid to boost its investments ‐ particularly in rural areas.
"I think ultimately it’s going to mean better, faster, cheaper Internet access and more competition," Pai said in an interview. Others disagree and will challenge Pai in court, while many states are fighting back with their own laws, further muddling the situation.
[News24] Volkswagen Group South Africa (VWSA) reached a historical milestone on June 11 2018 when it produced its one millionth EA111 engine.
Production of the EA111 engine started back in January 2010 when the first engines for the then new Polo and Polo Vivo were produced for the local market which was followed by producing engines for export markets including China, India, Taiwan, Mexico and Malaysia.
A million and counting
Apart from assembling the engine locally, the grey cast iron cylinder block for the engine as well as the bearing cap for the block is also machined in-house.
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A bit like Trump, SA's new multi-millionaire president Cyril Ramaphosa is pushing hard for foreign investment, and he is getting it.
"Rahmphosa is well known as a businessman, and his estimated net worth is over R6.4 billion ($550 million) as of 2018,[12] with 31 properties[13] and previously-held notable ownership in companies such as McDonald's South Africa, chair of the board for MTN and member of the board for Lonmin. He also works for Coca-Cola Company."
Ramaphosa is from the tiny Venda (not Xhosa or Zulu) tribal district of South Africa, close to the northern border with Zimbabwe. He is a well educated business man and shrewd negotiator.
The South African GDP still remains below 1%, but a new middle-class is emerging.
[OANN] Zim-bob-we’s parliament on Monday backed down from its demand for former president Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... to answer questions related to diamond mining operations during his time in office.
In what would have been his first public appearance since being ousted in a de facto military coup in November, parliament had wanted to question Mugabe about his pronouncements that the state had been deprived of at least $15 billion in revenue by mining companies operating in the eastern Marange gem fields.
Mugabe had twice failed to appear before the mines committee of parliament and was given a final chance to do so on Monday, but the committee said in a statement it had now recused the 94-year-old former leader after consultations with the Speaker.
The committee did not give any more details.
A parliament official privy to the issue had told Rooters in May that it was unlikely Mugabe would appear before the committee because this was opposed by influential politicians in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ruling ZANU-PF party.
Mugabe said in March 2016 the country was robbed of wealth by diamond companies including joint ventures between Chinese companies and the army, police and intelligence services. He later expelled those firms last year and replaced them with a state-owned diamond company.
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And we thought Zim's problems would finally be over with the exit of white colonialists.
[Al Jazeera] Hery Rajaonarimampianina, Possibly the longest name I've ever seen. They've never heard of hyphens?
president of Madagascar, says a new government has been appointed after a court ruling which required a "consensus" administration to resolve a crisis sparked by electoral reform.
The Indian Ocean nation has been rocked by protests initially called against new electoral laws the opposition said were aimed at barring their candidates from taking part in elections scheduled for later this year.
The demonstrations then snowballed into demands for the president to step down.
The protests led to the Constitutional Court ordering Rajaonarimampianina to form a government of national unity with a "consensus prime minister" to avert a full-blown crisis.
On June 4 he appointed non-partisan technocrat Christian Ntsay, 57, as prime minister as part of a deal with a section of the opposition to obey the court ruling.
"The government of [Prime Minister] Christian Ntsay has now been put in place after several rounds of negotiations," Rajaonarimampianina told news hounds on Monday at his official residence.
Ntsay is not a member of any political party and is known as an international expert in labour management and leadership, previously serving as Madagascar's tourism minister between 2002 and 2003.
"Speaking to the prime minister and the ministers, I say: The eyes of the nation and the whole world are on you," added Rajaonarimampianina.
Madagascar is one of the world's poorest countries, despite reserves of nickel, cobalt, gold, uranium and other minerals.
A 2009 coup staged by the capital's mayor led to international condemnation and scared off foreign investors.
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[OANN] A judge in El Salvador ordered the arrest of 17 people, including the current Minister of Social Inclusion, on Monday for their suspected involvement in a corruption racket allegedly led by former President Mauricio Funes.
Funes, who has been in exile in Nicaragua since September 2016, is accused of using public funds to pay for trips, home remodeling and hospital bills, among other expenses.
Among those sought for their alleged involvement was Vanda Pignato, Funes’ ex-wife and the current minister of social inclusion, and other former high-ranking officials.
The government of leftist President Salvador Sanchez Ceren, who was Funes’ vice-president and is not suspected of involvement in the racket, lent its support to the ruling.
"As a government, we reject any act of corruption, wherever it may be, and we support all the actions necessary for the defense of public funds. We won’t tolerate anyone who has betrayed the trust of the people of El Salvador," the president’s office said in a statement.
Funes, a 58-year-old former journalist, governed the poor Central American country from 2009 to 2014 and brought the party formed by a former leftist guerrilla group, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, back to power for the first time following a 1980-1992 civil war.
He says he is a victim of political attacks orchestrated by businessmen and conservatives.
(Reporting by Nelson Renteria; Editing by Paul Tait)
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[Al Jazeera] Panama's former President Ricardo Martinelli has been extradited to his homeland from the United States, where he has been held on charges of political espionage and corruption, one of his lawyers said.
Martinelli, who was president from 2009-2014, was transferred from the federal prison in Miami to the Opa Locka Executive Airport, where he was placed on a charter flight to Panama City at around 10:20 GMT.
A handcuffed Martinelli, escorted by US officers, greeted news hounds gathered at the airport.
"I'm ready to watch the World Cup!" he said, giving a thumbs-up. Panama qualified for the tournament, which begins on Thursday.
Martinelli was taken into custody near his home in the US state of Florida in June 2017 after Panama requested his extradition on charges that he used public money to spy on more than 150 political rivals during his 2009-2014 term.
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Martinelli was taken into custody near his home in the US state of Florida in June 2017 after Panama requested his extradition on charges that he used public money to spy on more than 150 political rivals during his 2009-2014 term.
[MEDICALXPRESS] Polio has been reported in Venezuela, a crisis-wracked country where the disease had been eradicated decades ago, the Pan-American Health Organization reports.
The organization said the child had no history of vaccination and lives in an under-immunized extremely impoverished Delta Amacuro state.
Polio, or 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... myelitis, is a crippling childhood disease caused by the poliovirus, and preventable through immunization.
Doctor Jose Felix Oletta, a former Minister of Health, told AFP that the last case of acute poliomyelitis in Venezuela was reported in 1989.
"The virus especially affects people in conditions of malnutrition and unvaccinated, as this case," Oletta added.
Oletta slammed health authorities in President Nicolas Maduro's government for taking more than a month to notify the PAHO that it had identified the virus. International health regulations require it to do so within 24 hours.
Venezuela, devastated by economic and political crises, also accounted for 85 percent of cases of measles reported across Latin America and the Caribbean over the past year, the PAHO said.
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Probably brought from Pakistain...
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When will we here an update on this paradise from Bernie and the Bros?
[Wash Times] The USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned ship in the Navy, sits in Boston, revered by sailors and history buffs.
The second-oldest ship, the USS Pueblo, floats at a river dock in Pyongyang, still a hostage more than 50 years after North Korea seized it in a January 1968 raid in the frigid waters of the East Sea off the hermit kingdom’s northeastern coast.
Calls from the surviving crew to bring the ship back have amounted to naught. The Colorado legislature, protective of the ship named after one of its cities, also weighs in every year with a resolution calling for the ship’s return.
After one version passed 10 years ago, a state lawmaker received a postcard featuring a photo of a North Korean soldier smashing his rifle butt against the head of a Western-looking man in a blue uniform. The card had a North Korean postmark and a message. In flawless English, the writer urged the politician to "come and take it, you dirty American."
That’s the polite version of what was written, said state Sen. Bob Gardner, a Republican from Colorado Springs and one of the sponsors of the "bring home the Pueblo" resolution this year. Mr. Gardner still marvels at the perfect, idiomatic English written on the unsigned card.
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump met North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un at the summit in Singapore on Tuesday.
The two leaders met and shook hands at the island resort Capella Singapore and exchanged a few words with their interpreters before entering the hotel for their one-on-one conversation.
"I feel really great. We’ll have a great discussion," Trump said to the press as the two leaders sat briefly. "This will be tremendously successful. It’s my honor. We will have a terrific relationship."
Kim commented that the pair overcame obstacles to be at the summit.
"It wasn’t easy for us to come here," he said. "There was a past that grabbed our ankles and wrong prejudices and practices that at times covered our eyes and ears. We overcame all that and we are here now."
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Look for the Deep State to scream we're giving away the farm because we have to withdraw B-2s from Guam. As if they can't reach NK from Missouri.
They're going to be beyond pissed off that we get to withdraw our troops from Korea. It's their goal to conquer the whole world by putting US troops everywhere. Ain't gonna happen, assholes. America is not world police.
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Deep State to scream we're giving away the farm because we have to withdraw B-2s from Guam.
They'll have to be removed carefully due to the 'tip over' factor.
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Be interesting to see how Nanny Peloser spins whatever this is as a negative.
The Deep State (DS) will either fight this in the MSM or praise it to the heavens while trying to burrow beneath it to cause a collapse or smile smugly cause they know it's all their plan to begin with.
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I hate to be the nay-sayer; I want Trump to succeed. But there's a wild-card here, and that's the behavior of the current South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, a committed leftist who masquerades as a moderate. Since he's been in office he's been making back-door deals to weaken the South and bolster Pudgy. He's committed to a 'reunification' strategy that in the end would impose a Northern style system on the south.
Worse yet, it isn't clear to me that the South is willing to stand up for itself. They clearly have the economy to do so, and everything I've read about the SKOR military is that it is professional, well-trained, and reasonably well equipped, though it needs better anti-missile and anti-air defenses. But my concern is that the South Koreans, as a people, may not be willing to defend itself against aggression, particularly if that aggression is of the usual communist style of agitation, canoodling, assassinations, etc (e.g., what Allende tried to do in Chile). If that is the case, a U.S. climb-down on military exercises, a staged withdrawal, etc., simply opens the door for more pressure from the North.
I'd like to be wrong; I'm not sure I am.
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Transcript of the post-meeting news conference with Trump.
I caught it hours ago, but then it disappeared, showing only the WaPo annotated version, which was behind their paywall. This link seems to be open.
Wow, it’s a lot of questions. Go ahead. Sure. Go ahead. NBC.
QUESTION: Mr. Thank you, Mr. President. Two questions for you if you don’t mind. First, the man you met today, Kim Jong-un, as you know, has killed family members, has starved his own people, is responsible for the death of Otto Warmbier. Why are you so comfortable calling him very talented?
TRUMP: Well, he is very talented. Anybody that takes over a situation like he did at 26 years of age and is able to run it and run it tough, I don’t say it was nice or I don’t say anything about it, he ran it. Very few people at that age, you can take one out of 10,000 probably couldn’t do it.
Otto Warmbier is a very special person and he will be for a long time in my life. His parents are good friends of mine. I think without Otto, this would not have happened. Something happened from that day. It was a terrible thing. It was brutal. But a lot of people started to focus on what was going on, including North Korea.
I really think that Otto is someone who did not die in vain. I told this to his parents. A special young man and I have to say, special parents, special people. Otto did not die in vain. He had a lot to do with us being here today. Okay. Thank you very much.
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So has or has not Iran lost a prime place to deniabily test their nukes and ICBMs?
Does this imply that if they want a tested NUKE or missile they need to do it on their own territory?
If so, how many hours after do Saudi Arabia and Israel have a joint attack?
[Al Jazeera] North Korean leader and US president meet at landmark summit in Singapore.
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Adversaries know this president is by far the most extravagently wealthy man ever to hold the highest office in the world. This is an unexpected magnet to them.
The newspaper noted that North Korea dispatched an IL-76 transport plane that carried things such as food and a bullet-proof limousine, as well as a "portable toilet that will deny determined sewer divers insights into to the supreme leader's stools." He probably doesn't have a DNA problem like Obama, but he did go to school in Switzerland and can't stomach the filthy typical Asian convenience.
Germany is considering making state-funded feminist porn and broadcasting it to the public to combat sexist stereotypes.
The material, which would include 'fat, skinny, young and old people' will be available on the websites of public broadcasters ARD and ZDF, if the idea goes ahead.
The proposal was voted on by Angela Merkel's social-democratic coalition partners at a general assembly in Berlin.
The delegates accepted a proposal from their youth wing to adopt the idea of government-funded feminist pornography for educational purposes as part of their party programme.
The SPD, the junior coalition partner of Angela Merkel's Christian-Democratic Union (CDU), is the biggest party in Berlin where it governs together with coalition partners the Greens and the far-left Die Linke.
In the proposal, the SPD wrote: 'Mainstream porn generally shows sexist and racial stereotypes in which consent is not a theme and certain "optimal" body types are made as standard.' They want porn with fat, old, and ugly people. The purpose of porn is to titillate the sexual urge. The sexual urge is the urge to procreate with the fittest specimens. It's like they don't know this, or know it and are lying.
'In these films, sex seems more like a performance or competitive sport: everything seems to work right away, there is no communication between the performers, no trying out, failure and trying out new things.'
According to the SPD, it influences modern society in a negative way as youths have 'unrealistic imaginations of sexual life'.
Socialist youth member Heike Hoffmann, 20, is one of the SPD members behind the proposal. A socialist, what a surprise.
The idea might have been inspired by Sweden, where in 2009 the state film institute spent £44,813 financing Dirty Diaries, a series of short porn films produced by female film artists. Sweden, what a surprise.
The SPD also proposes that German broadcasters ARD and ZDF buy some of those movies and offer them on their online media libraries.
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The next step will be to outlaw statistics on how popular this feminist pron is compared to the regular stuff.
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Let them. It'll make for a good visual shorthand for the differences between state sponsored socialist and feminist ideals versus those of the market. Imagine the memes.
[Al Jazeera] Police in the Indian state of Assam have tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! at least 18 people in connection with the lynching of two youths following rumours on social media and WhatsApp that they were child traffickers.
Abhijit Nath and Nilotpal Das were beaten to death on Saturday by a mob of around 200 people in a remote village of Karbi Anglong district, some 200km east of the state capital, Guwahati.
The duo is the latest victims of rumours circulating on social media, particularly WhatsApp, about the child kidnapping gangs.
"We have taken strict measures against the culprits and arrested 18 individuals. We have also arrested some persons who were involved in spreading rumours on social media," Director General of Assam Police (DGP) Kuladhar Saikia told Al Jazeera.
The clip of the lynching was widely shared on social media, which showed Das pleading with folded hands: "Don't kill me ... Please don't beat me. I am an Assamese ... Please let me go."
Nath, 30, and Das, 29, had gone to remote Panjuri Kachari village on Saturday for sightseeing in a black four-wheel drive, when they were chased and beaten to death on the suspicion of child kidnapping.
"There was a rumour that some child abductors had entered our village. This was shared via WhatsApp and Facebook. The message also read that one of the abductors had long hair," said a village woman at Panjuri Kachari village who didn't wish to be named.
"The youth were stopped and asked about their whereabouts. But in between some local people came and started thrashing them," the woman said.
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[Goddard Media Studios] NASA-TV graphics illustrating Curiosity's findings on Mars, broadcast on June 7, 2018 from Goddard Space Flight Center. All clips are formatted in 1280x720 or higher resolution. Learn more about this discovery.
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.
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[PATCH] A former Baltimore detective was sentenced to federal prison time. He was the second officer from the Baltimore Police Department to be sentenced Thursday in a case that brought to light a corrupt contingent within the eighth largest municipal police department in the U.S.
