An Army reservist in uniform surrendered to Lake City police Thursday night after shooting and killing a fellow soldier at the U.S. Army Reserve Center in Forest Park, Georgia, officials said.
The shooting occurred before 5 p.m. Thursday inside an office at the reserve center adjacent to Fort Gillem.
AP: Thursday's shooting followed a bizarre arrest at Fort Gordon Tuesday. A former national guardsman was caught on the east Georgia base with a land mine, several grenades and night vision devices, authorities said. Anthony Todd Saxon, 34, was charged with impersonating an Army master sergeant and stealing the infrared laser targeting sight.
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A UC Santa Cruz farming event on Saturday aims to show there is more than one kind of seed-sower.
*sigh* Santa Cruz, the center of California's fruits'n'nuts culture.
"There's this huge movement of sustainable agriculture, but it often gets put into these cookie-cutter farm lives," said Maggie Cheney, organizer of the second annual Queer Farmer Field Day at the UCSC farm. "There are so many different avenues to be able to farm."
Being GLBT means loving Mother Earth better than anyone else, at least in Santa Cruz.
Through agricultural activities, farm tours and demonstrations on the university's 25-acre farm, Field Day organizers hope to promote farming as a viable career in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. In addition, said Cheney, a community member who works on the UCSC farm, the organizers will demonstrate low-waste, high-yield farming methods applicable even to home gardens.
"We're here to celebrate farming, gardening and the community of queer people," Cheney said.
Organizers hope the event will bring awareness to UCSC's queer farmer community. "There have been a lot of gay, lesbian and queer farmers who have gone through the horticultural apprenticeship in the last 40 years," Cheney said. "I think it's important to recognize that there's diversity amongst not only students, but farmers as well."
A discovery for the GLBT folk of Santa Cruz, but perhaps not news for the farming community. There have been bachelor farmers for forever, without anybody asking where they slept.
Cheney said folks should gather gloves, shovels and hoes for the event and dig right into farming. More than 50 people participated in the event's first year. Part of the farm's objective is to take people from field to table, showing the process of growing, harvesting and delivering food.
Participants can go on farm tours at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. to see organic produce such as artichokes and blueberries. Future farmers can learn pickling and fermentation techniques and beekeeping tips.
Seed-sowers can share a favorite dish at the 6 p.m. potluck while drinking homemade lavender lemonade, listening to live music and watching queer farming films.
Cheney said she hoped the event would allow members of the queer community of all ages and their allies to meet each other, turning strangers into friends. "I see it as not only an educational experience but heightening the morale of queer people and teenagers in our community," Cheney said.
The event's sponsors include The Rainbow Chard Alliance, based at UCSC. The organization is a collective of queer farmers who support each other and future queer farmers while promoting good land use and earth-nurturing farming practices. Other sponsors include the Apprenticeship Program at the UCSC Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems and the UCSC Lionel Cantú LGBTI Resource Center.
Kyrgyzstan's interim president said Friday that 2,000 people may have died in the ethnic clashes that have rocked the country's south many times her government's official estimate as she made her first visit to a riot-hit city since the unrest erupted.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Almost 400,000 people have been displaced by ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, the United Nations humanitarian office says.
Some 300,000 people have left their homes but are still inside Kyrgyzstan and as many as 100,000 people are thought to have taken refuge in neighboring Uzbekistan, the United Nations humanitarian office spokeswoman, Elisabeth Byrs, said on Thursday.
The latest figure exceeds previous official estimate of 75,000.
Many ethnic Uzbeks, who have fled the country, are now living in make-shift camps along the Uzbekistan side of the border and are too afraid to go back to their homes, the Associated Press reported.
Those who are on the Kyrgyzstan side of the border say that authorities have banned them from crossing the border and are awaiting their chance to leave the country for the camps.
Rights groups have raised alarm about an imminent humanitarian crisis in the region.
"We're going to have an increasingly serious humanitarian problem which is going to affect both the Kyrgyz and the Uzbek communities in southern Kyrgyzstan," said Paul Quinn-Judge, the Central Asia Project Director at the International Crisis Group -- a Brussels-based security think tank told the BBC from the capital, Bishkek.
Violence erupted last week between the majority Kyrgyz population and minority ethnic Uzbeks in the wake of a bloody uprising in April that deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
Kyrgyzstan's interim government has blamed ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev for orchestrating the deadly riots.
Azimbek Beknazarov, the deputy chief of the provisional government, put the number of deaths on both sides at 223, but some observers have suggested the death toll far exceeds that number.
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CNN + FOX NEWS AM > dat 100K number is now up to 120-150K, from the 400K base estimate.
* DAILY TIMES.PK > RUSSIAN TROOPS TO GUARD [strategic] SITES IN KYRGYZSTAN.
* WAFF/TOPIX > KYRGYZ CRISIS A THREAT TO CHINA'S [Econ ergo Geopol] INFLUENCE, in favor of RUSSIA ala RUSSO-CHIN COMPETITION for Kyrgyztsan + Central Asia.
* WAFF > KYRGYZ INTERVENTION ONE FIGHT RUSSIA CAN'T AFFORD.
Kyrgyzstan's Interim Lady Prez says the human death toll closer from the violence is ROUGHLY OR CLOSER TO 2000 DEAD, NOT THE ORGINAL ESTIMATE OF 190 DEAD.
Reuters - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin climbed into the cockpit of Russia's newest fighter jet on Thursday and said it would trump a U.S.-built rival, the F-22 Raptor.
Putin watched a test flight of a "fifth-generation" stealth fighter, dubbed the T-50 and billed as Russia's first all-new warplane since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
"This machine will be superior to our main competitor, the F-22, in terms of maneuverability, weaponry and range," Putin told the pilot after the flight, according to an account on the government website.
Putin said the plane would cost up to three times less than similar aircraft in the West and could remain in service for 30 to 35 years with upgrades, according to the report.
Successful development of the fighter, built by Sukhoi, is crucial to showing Russia can challenge U.S. technology and modernize its military after a period of post-Soviet decay.
Russia also plans to manufacture T-50s jointly with India.
The F-22 raptor stealth fighter first flew in 1997 and is the only fifth-generation fighter in service. Fifth-generation aircraft have advanced flight and weapons control systems and can cruise at supersonic speeds.
According to the government website, the test pilot told Putin the controls of the T-50 allowed the pilot to operate most of the plane's systems without taking his hands off the joystick, which he said would be very useful under high forces of gravity.
"I know, I've flown," Putin replied. Sukhoi has said the plane should be ready for use in 2015
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I spent about 30 years reading about superior Soviet fighters/aircraaft. Now the Russkis do quite well with fighters, and not so well with almost everything else.
In Rossiya it's all about agitprop. The A-35 will handle whatver they've got. The rpoduction run on the F-22 is finished, having flown 13 years before this latest Suhkoi. Tje thing is about all of our support, Awacs, air to air refueling, carriers, bases all around Rossiya (still).
This Putin swill is for internal political consumption, and for the 'usefull idiots' in the West.
Advanced radar, all moving vertical stabilizers, vectored thrust engines, composite/Ti construction, semi stealthy, sounds like a pretty darn good plane.
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..Just credit where credit is due-Russian A/A | A/G and SAM technology has always been impressive and often ; awe-inspiring. Unity against the ISLAAMISTS is the way to proceed now. They WANT to Kill us. These pukes WANT to KILL human progress, modernity, Christianity and any hope for peace on our planet. They are sub-swine pig agri-by-product. MAY OUR Christian Father GOD, the Father of Jesus save us from the Islamist devil-satans.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has spent the past week and half fighting to get working barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out of his state's oil-soaked waters. By Thursday morning, against the governor's wishes, those barges still were sitting idle, even as more oil flowed toward the Louisiana shore.
"It's the most frustrating thing," the Republican governor told ABC News while visiting Buras, La. "Literally, [Wednesday] morning we found out that they were halting all of these barges."
Sixteen barges sat stationary Thursday, although they had been sucking up thousands of gallons of BP's oil as recently as Tuesday. Workers in hazmat suits and gas masks pumped the oil out of the Louisiana waters and into steel tanks. It was a homegrown idea that seemed to be effective at collecting the thick gunk. "These barges work. You've seen them work. You've seen them suck oil out of the water," said Jindal.
"The Coast Guard came and shut them down," Jindal said. "You got men on the barges in the oil, and they have been told by the Coast Guard, 'Cease and desist. Stop sucking up that oil.'"
A Coast Guard representative told ABC News that it shares the same goal as the governor. "We are all in this together. The enemy is the oil," said Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Dan Lauer.
But the Coast Guard ordered the stoppage because of reasons that Jindal found frustrating. The Coast Guard needed to confirm that there were fire extinguishers and life vests on board, and then it had trouble contacting the people who built the barges.
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At this point, I would order the barges to continue to work and notify the Coast Guard that any interference would result in the impounding of their ships and the arrest of their personnel as this was now a state disaster area.
It is long past time to throw down the gauntlet against a PC driven federal government.
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NO! Screw the Coast Guard. They are hindering the saving of US property. They seem to be doing this on purpose. Put Sheriffs on the boats and tell the coasties to go back home.
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It not the Coast Guard per se. It's the over lawyered, intrusive law and rule for everything society we have allowed to be created. Vote out the current political class, enact term limits for politicians and sunset provisions for laws and we can return to a free society.
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They could just as well have inspected them on the water.
Steve White, then what do you call someone that is ACTIVELY preventing you from doing the right thin when it is very very urgent?
The Coast Guard IS the enemy if they behave like one. Much like the EPA was in terms of delaying response.
An enemy need not be filled with malice, they are an enemy none the less.
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Somehow I feel that there is some regulation somewhere which disallows any actual, physical, verification of their presence.
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It seems the real problem isn't the life jackets and fire extinguishers. It is the Coast Guard's supposed need to contact the manufacturer of the barges. I wonder what for. As far as I know it is still legal for a person to build their own boat. Why would they need to contact the manufacturer?
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All it would take is an Obama edict that "this is an emergency - EPA and Coast Guard regs are to be temporarily sidelined in order to mediate the damage" After all, didn't Preznit Zero say it was like a war? Invoke those powers. The fact he doesn't, and appointed a half-time czar sez much about their committment
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Correct me iff I'm wrong, but IIRC isn't the UK GOVT a majority stakeholder [Read, CONTROLLING = UK STATE OWNERSHIP INTEREST] in BP ergo UK = LONDON GOVT has State sovereignty oer DEEPWATER HORIZON, RIG + OIL FIELD SITE, hence neither POTUS BAMMER NOR GOV'NOR "JINNIE" JINDAL can effec do anything until the BAMMER + US STATE [Hillary] come to an Agreement wid the UK FOREIGN SECRETARY + MINISTRY???
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#3 The enemy is the oil.
And we are all in this political quagmire together.
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Per the coast guard the enemy is not having little red fire extinguishers and little yellow life jackets. To them, tens of thousands of gallon of oil coming at the shore is low priority.
Political quaqmire? Call it federal attempts of micro-management of every little detail from a thousand miles away by a group of dead beats who are on DC golf courses or Chicago vacations. Or when they do show up doing photo ops eating snow cones.
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This whole thing is less about oil and more and more about politics. Zero is all about punishing his potential future opponents. Jindel and Brewer are both strong and influencial players from the right. His attacks are more to discredit them than anything else. He is allowing thousands of good Americans from the "Flyover states" to get hurt for his personal gain and plan. He has abused our constitution, played with our future and our kids future. He rules without concern for the truth and the long term future of this once great nation. We are whitnessing the fall of a modern Rome...
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Many on the MSM-Net contin to argue that GW = CLIMATE CHANGE PERTS are wrong on the MAN-VS-SUN argument as per the cause of GW + CC - DITTO FOR OIL-ENERGY PERTS AS PER THE DEEPWATER GULF OIL GUSH, esepc as per EFFEC ON CURR + FUTURE, US-WORLD RESERVES???
Lest we fergit, COMET APOPHIS + GUAM, WORLD-VISIBLE EXPLOSIONS ON THE MOON
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* NASA's 2013 POTENTIALLY TECHS-DESTROYING MASSIVE SOLAR FLARES/STORMS
versus
ME > 2012 + "QUAKE FELT/AROUND THE WORLD" [ Universal-Global EQuakey].
NOT counting the whole 2012 IRAN + MILTERRS NUCLEARIZATION = NUKE-WMD TERROR, "ISLAMIST/
JIHADIST BOMB" thingy....
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Probably the only way the face of this could get worse is if a rig was bailing wired together, had an electric fire, and half hands lost because of no life jackets.
It is frustrating to see the Coast Guard swing into action against ourselves; yes this could have been done outside of dock but I would guess its a heckuva lot easier to keep track of and faster to do it at dock, lots safer too. And then, lets get off the backs of the locals and get this done Federal Government, here to help and all that crap.
The biggest nightmare for the administration and Democrats seeking re-election in November would be for the video to become a 2010 version of how TV networks tallied the number of days American hostages were held in Iran during 1979 and 1980. Held hostage because he had to 'take control'. Where's the Irony Meter?
"If this becomes like the Iran hostage crisis, it's very bad news for Obama," said Darrell West, who studies campaigns and mass media at the liberal-leaning Brookings Institution.
There was a taste of it Thursday.
"Today is the 59th day of the BP oil spill that has devastated much of the Gulf of Mexico," is how Lame Duck Rep. Bart Stupak, opened his House subcommittee's hearing for questioning of BP chief executive Tony Hayward. Way to go, Bart!
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No way, the media will cover for him like they always do.
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The bloom always comes off the rose. Even artificial flowers start looking shabby after a while...
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That daily tally should also include how many gallons of oil have polluted the gulf, how many days each decision takes, how many times he has interfered with local decisionmaking like having the coast guard stop skimmers until they have enough lifejackets and fire extinguishers, and every other bit of information that could show his success or failure to manage the situation.
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The leak is now a mealticket for the media. Hell the local paper is literally being paid to cover this. It's also now a meal ticket for every stand up comedian on the planet.
My plan is to get rich damn quick. I'll need a Polar Bear, a winsome hippy chick and a Flip. The ocean will provide the oilz necessary for this endeavor, if it doesn't I'll go Castrol.
Texas Aggie prof studying impacts says it's 40% methane, compared to typically 5%. Could hurt fishies, but I don't think he realizes the Global Warming potential!
AP - In early June, a research team led by Samantha Joye of the Institute of Undersea Research and Technology at the University of Georgia investigated a 15-mile-long plume drifting southwest from the leak site. I thought everything was going northeast, to the beaches and marshes.
They said they found methane concentrations up to 10,000 times higher than normal, and oxygen levels depleted by 40 percent or more. The scientists found that some parts of the plume had oxygen concentrations just shy of the level that tips ocean waters into the category of "dead zone" - a region uninhabitable to fish, crabs, shrimp and other marine creatures. Including the bugs that digest the oil and gas, until, I suppose, it drifts into oxygen-rich waters.
BP spokesman disputed Joye's suggestion that the Gulf's deep waters contain large amounts of methane, noting that water samples taken by BP and federal agencies have shown minimal underwater oil outside the spill's vicinity. "The gas that escapes, what we don't flare, goes up to the surface and is gone," he said. See? And then it mixes with our air, and becomes a potent greenhouse gas!
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Attention all gulf fish: Don't swim into that nasty, oily shit, OK?
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Listening to late night radio while drifting into la-la land, I heard part of a Richard Hoagland discussion on the vast amounts of methane associated with the well site. Supposedly it was responsible for the blowout preventers not being sufficient and a bubble about 20 miles across is forming. He said if it blows, it would dwarf Mt. St. Helens and devastate the coastal areas. This makes it impossible to seal making this spill a nightmare that won't end. Take Coast to Coast with a grain of salt but I guess there is a youtube video out there.
Well, when she blows, it will be like this, except underwater. Of course, the whole well head could fall over and break off due to leaks and erosion below the ocean floor.
* YEAR 2013 > NASA says MASSIVE SOLAR FLARES/STORMS may occur + severely harm HUMTECHS iff not destroy Human Civilization. SUN HARMS OR DESTROYS EARTH???
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* GULF OIL GUSH > MONTHS, YEARS? + DECADES? LONG UNCONTROLLED GUSH > the PRO-OWG PRE-OWG HARMS OR DESTROYS SAME + HUM CIVILIZ + EARTH. EARTH DESTROYS EARTH???
This is why, VIRGINA, 'CUZIN PARIS HILTON, LINDSAY, etal. must demand that CAPT. JEAN-LUC PICARD being hanged from the Nearest Highest STARFLEET YARDARM for failing to build the STAR/SUN-DESTROYING NEXUS MISSLE to force the MILYUHN-EARTH SIZED SUN TO SURRENDER TO EARTH-SIZED EARTH!
D *** NG IT, 2013? Year 2018 - 7 Years = Year 2011, NOT 2013??? WE MISSED OUR MISSLE QUIZ + MATH QUIZ + 1980's MTV HEADBANGERS BALL THAT MONTH, DIDN'T WE!
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The gulf has over 5,000 natural oil and gas seeps. They deposit 500,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf every year without one human being involved.
In addition, as summer comes on, a dead zone appears every year off the mouth of the Mississippi. It is caused by the increased amounts of fertilizer in the river due to farming upstream. The flora in the Gulf love it and explode in reproduction creating an oxygen dead zone.
The University of Sindh in Jamshoro submitted before the LHC on Thursday that Muhammad Safdar Gill, a PML-N member of the provincial assembly had a bogus BA degree.
The varsity controller examination submitted a report on a constitutional petition moved by a voter Imran Ahmad, challenging Gill's election from PP-274 (Bahawalpur). He said that the BA degree submitted by the MPA under Roll No 7590 was bogus, and that the university never issued such a certificate. The court will hold the proceedings on this petition on Friday (today).
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The oil ministry signed on Thursday an initial agreement with Turkey to extend the crude oil transfer through the Iraqi-Turkish pipeline for another 12 years.
The agreement was signed by deputy oil minister, Abdulkarim Laiebi, from the Iraqi side and deputy energy minister, Youssef Yezar, from the Turkey,' Essam Jihad, the ministry's official spokesman said in a statement received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
He expected to sign the final agreement between Iraqi oil minister and Turkish energy minister in the coming days in Baghdad.
Iraq exports part of its crude oil (400-700 thousands barrels) through the Iraqi-Turkish pipeline from Kirkuk oilfields to Ceyhan port in Turkey.
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Quid pro quo?
Let us hunt the Kurdish "rebels", we let you go through with your oil.
KARBALA / Aswat al-Iraq: The Iraqi oil ministry seeks an increase in production to hit 12 million barrels pd day (bpd) during the next six years as well as develop natural gas fields, according to the minister, Hussein al-Shahrestani, on Thursday.
This figure is the normal rate of Iraq's production but for the policies pursued by the former regime,' Shahrestani said in statements to reports during a visit to the province of Karbala.
The ministry has laid a strategy and fine plans to reach this figure of productivity. The two rounds of oil tenders with the global corporations in this domain are falling in the framework of these plans,' he added.
Shahrestani pointed out that the ministry also seeks the development of natural gas fields to reach global levels. This is what the ministry will be working on during the third round of tenders'.
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Meh, never happen, the US can tap into Matt Simmons lake of oil in the GOM and drive the price down to Beaumont '54 levels. (whatever that is)
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.
A UC Santa Cruz farming event on Saturday aims to show there is more than one kind of seed-sower.
KARBALA / Aswat al-Iraq: The Iraqi oil ministry seeks an increase in production to hit 12 million barrels pd day (bpd) during the next six years as well as develop natural gas fields, according to the minister, Hussein al-Shahrestani, on Thursday.
