An Arlington, Texas couple was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge John H. McBryde for forcing a Nigerian widow to perform domestic labor for them for more than eight years. Emmanuel Nnaji, 50, a naturalized citizen of the United States was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Ngozi Ihechere Nnaji, 40, a citizen of Nigeria, was sentenced to nine years in prison. The defendants were also ordered to pay $305,957.60 in restitution.
On Feb. 2, 2010, both defendants were convicted by a Ft. Worth, Texas jury on all charges, including conspiracy to commit forced labor, forced labor, conspiracy to harbor an alien for financial gain, harboring an alien for financial gain, document servitude, and false statements to an FBI agent.
According to evidence presented at trial, the victim, a widowed and mother of six children, including a chronically ill child, was recruited in Nigeria with promises that her children would be cared for in exchange for her work in the United States.
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I love how he comes walking down the hallway (in the thong?) while the cops are taking the report.
I'm surprised they were sharp enough to put 2 and 2 together.
As if a 30-foot tall blue horse with glowing red eyes wasn't startling enough, travelers at Denver International Airport are now being greeted by a new Behemoth.
On Wednesday, workers erected a 26-foot tall, seven-ton replica of Anubis, the Egyptian god of the dead, adjacent to the main terminal. The statue is here to promote the upcoming King Tut exhibit at the Denver Art Museum.
According to one web site, Anubis is the "jackal-god of mummification," and "assisted in the rites by which a dead man was admitted to the underworld."
While art enthusiasts are excited about the statue, some air travelers aren't sure if they feel more or less secure with Anubis looking in.
"If it's the god of death, I wouldn't exactly be putting it in front of the airport," said passenger Keith Mears. Next up, statues of Hades, Santa Muerte, Thanatos, Mictlantecuhtli, and the Grim Reaper
Original article inadevertently deleted. I *think* this more or less is the same content.
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Isn't this a violation of the separation of church and state? If they show one god, shouldn't they show them all, since all religions are equally valid?
What would happen if someone wanted to mount a crucifix - a cross with a figure of Christ on it? (That's a rhetorical question.)
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This isn't the first time the Denver Airport has been in the news for really strange stuff. The site Anomalies Unlimited is a good starting point for conspiratorial takes on the base.
Well, truth be told, a lot of guys find her appealing, so I suppose that just means that Comrade Putin is just a normal authoritarian strongman with healthy glands.
Oh, wait a minute! There's more?
Pamela Anderson appeals to Putin over Canada seals
Ex-Baywatch star Pamela Anderson has appealed to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin to ban imports of baby seal pelts, a newspaper reported Friday. The prime minister's apparent "fondness" for animals prompted Anderson's plea, the spokeswoman for animal rights group PETA wrote in a letter cited by the Izvestia daily.... Oh. Never mind.
Better known in the West for pushing a muscular foreign policy and tightening control over Russia's politics, Putin has shown compassion for wildlife and nature. He voiced concern over the fate of polar bears when he helped scientists put a tracker on a 230-kilo (506-pound) bear on an Arctic trip in April. Last October he was shown cuddling a tiger cub he received as a birthday gift. Awwww, how sweet! Guess that makes up for all the anti-American foreign policy and the poisoning of dissidents.
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...In Beijing, the resulting military crackdown on the protesters by the PRC government left many civilians dead or injured. The toll ranges from 200--300 (PRC government figures), to 400--800 by The New York Times, and to 2,000--3,000 (Chinese student associations and Chinese Red Cross), although the PRC government asserts and most independent observers agree that the majority of these deaths were not in the square itself but rather in the streets leading to the square.
Following the violence, the government conducted widespread arrests to suppress protestors and their supporters, cracked down on other protests around China, banned the foreign press from the country and strictly controlled coverage of the events in the PRC press. Members of the Party who had publicly sympathized with the protesters were purged, with several high-ranking members placed under house arrest, such as General Secretary Zhao Ziyang. The violent suppression of the Tiananmen Square protest caused widespread international condemnation of the PRC government....
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looks like we gonna have too have a Tannanamen square of oyr own before it's over with
Captain N.J. "Dusty" Kleiss was a Dauntless pilot with VS-6 on Enterprise during the battle.
...McClusky found an empty ocean where the enemy carriers were supposed to be. He figured that the Japanese must have reversed course. Soon he saw a destroyer going at high speed. This had to be a picket ship going to catch up with his fleet.
Suddenly we saw the KAGA, the AKAGI and the SORYU almost below us, in an open stretch of clouds.
"Earl and I will take the one on the right. Dick, you take the one on the left."
We went into echelon formation. McClusky and his two wing men dived first, then Gallaher and two wingmen, then me and then the rest of Scouting Six, all heading for the KAGA. Dick Best and Bombing Six dived for the AKAGI. The YORKTOWN dive bombers dived for the SORYU.
The situation was a carrier pilot's dream. No anti-aircraft, all three carriers heading straight into the wind. Two fighters were above us, but they were not making an attack.
MClusky and his two wingmen missed. Earl Gallaher's 500 pound bomb hit squarely on a plane starting its take-off. His two 100 pound incendaries hit just beside it. Immediately the whole pack of planes at the stern were in flames 50 feet high.
I couldn't see the bombs landing from the next two planes, but flames had spread. to the middle of the ship. My bombs landed exactly on the big red circle forward of the bridge. Seconds later the flames were 100 feet high. Walter Lord later learned from the Japanese that my bomb splashed a gasoline cart, throwing its flaming contents into the KAGA's bridge.
A fighter attacked us as I pulled out of my dive. John Snowden, my gunner, disposed of him in five seconds. A second fighter came at us. John disposed of him. Then it was a survival to escape anti-aircraft fire while passing near a dozen ships until I'd reached ten miles toward Midway.
Ten minutes after the attack I saw a large explosion amidship on the KAGA. Rockets of flame, pieces of steel bolted upward to about three or four thousand feet high.
Dick Best's squadron had bombed the The KAGA and the YORKTOWN bombers hit the SORYU. Both were burning fiercely
The KAGA then sent up a huge brown cloud of smoke. I could no longer see the ship and presumed it was sunk. The other two fires were visible 30 miles away. As directed, I headed 40 miles toward Midway before heading to our carrier. As I climbed slowly up to cloud level I saw a Jap fighter heading at me. I headed directly at him and he ducked away into a cloud.
Then I saw a Bombing Six plane land in the sea and the crew getting their rubber raft. I marked their position
Then on my left a few miles away I saw several dozen planes from the HIRYU flying at high speed toward our carriers. I'd glimpsed this 4th carrier, about 20 miles away, during my dive.
I had used every trick I knew to get every mile out of each drop of gas. The ENTERPRISE saw me coming, headed into the wind. I landed on the carrier without circling. I landed with five gallons of gas. We had launched 16 SBD's. Eight made it back....
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VDH has, in my opinion, and excellent overview of this epic clash in his book 'Carnage and Culture'.
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...It is said that every year since 1943, students at the US Naval War College have refought the battle of Midway as part of their studies.
Supposedly the US has never won the battle again.
Mike
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The Japanese war game in preparation for the Battle of Midway was easily the most notorious war game ever played. During the game the American side's airpower sank two Japanese carriers. Rear Admiral Ukagi Matome, Yamamoto's chief of staff and commander of their carrier force for the operation, unilaterally reversed the umpires' ruling on the loss of the carriers. The carriers were restored to the game, and the Japanese side went on to capture Midway. Weeks later, during the actual battle, the Americans sank the same two carriers, plus two more. This time Admiral Ukagi was not able to reach into the "dead pile" and replace his ships. - Strategy Page
[Iran Press TV Latest] Geologists have found that global warming is not a grave danger to many low-lying Pacific islands, which are said to be growing instead of sinking.
Oh dear. How, oh how will former Vice President Gore afford the divorce settlement now? Could Iran PressTV not have delayed this report for a month or several out of pity for the man's situation?
According to the study published in the New Scientist, Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia are among the islands that have grown due to coral debris and sediment.
Grown? Worse and worse!
Historical photographs and satellite imaging show that 80 percent of the islands have either remained the same or gotten larger.
Inhabitants of many low-lying Pacific islands have recently come to fear that their homelands might be wiped off the map due to rising sea levels.
"That rather gloomy prognosis for these nations is incorrect," Associate Professor of Auckland University Paul Kench said. "We have now got the evidence to suggest that the physical foundation of these countries will still be there in 100 years, so they perhaps do not need to flee their country."
Studies, however, suggest that the islands might not be inhabitable in the long-term and rising sea levels can threaten the livelihood of people living in Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia.
Whee! Competing studies! Which do you suppose the Climate Change wallahs at the UN will believe, and how much time do the punters give before they're morally embarrassed by their choice?
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If you believe everything I read, the effect of gravity on satellites has been used, by measuring the minute variations in distance between them, to measure the local gravity of earth. From this, they conclude the local sea level varies by over 200 feet. I think it was 150' low to 75' high, but it may have been the other way. Less gravity = higher sea level.
When they show me a study that proves that CO2 reduces gravity, then I'll move to higher ground.
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I tried to find the original article, but the best/quickest was this:
The Earth's shape resembles an ellipsoid (its equatorial radius is about 21 kilometers (13 miles) greater than its polar radius) but it is not a perfect ellipsoid. Because of this resemblance, an ellipsoid is used to approximate the bulk of the Earth's shape, and departures from the ellipsoid are represented by the geoid elevation above or below the ellipsoid. The geoid can be as low as 106 meters (350 feet) below the ellipsoid or as high as 85 meters (280 feet) above. GRACE
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Here's an example of how it works. The two GRACE satellites are traveling in space, both 500 kilometers above the earth. As the front satellite approaches an area of higher gravity, it will be pulled toward the area of higher gravity and speed up. This increases the distance betweenthe two satellites. As the satellites straddle the area of higher gravity, the front satellite will slow down and the trailing satellite will speed up. As the trailing satellite passes the area of higher gravity, it will slow down and the lead satellite will not be affected. As the satellites move around the Earth, the speeding up and slowing down of the satellites will allow scientists to measure the distance between the two satellites, and, therefore, map the earth's gravity field.
Is this a great planet, or what?
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Move to the mountains and build a house on giant stilts and extend your life, relatively speaking.
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ION TOPIX > EARTHQUAKE RISK CALCULATOR GOES GLOBAL. GEM = G_lobal E_arthquake M-odel/Measurement Project may be in place by Year 2013 iff not sooner.
Total nonfarm payroll employment grew by 431,000 in May, reflecting
the hiring of 411,000 temporary employees to work on Census 2010, the
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Private-sector em-
ployment changed little (+41,000). Manufacturing, temporary help ser-
vices, and mining added jobs, while construction employment declined.
The unemployment rate edged down to 9.7 percent. [and from the A12 report we find that long term unemployment kept rising, however, from the A-15 report, household survey we find that the U-4, U-5 and U-6 unemployment rates, which count discouraged workers improved slightly]
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I got hired 3 separate times for essentially the same job. Hey, look at me! I'm an employment statistic. Woo Woo!
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That unemployment rate is the worst for Bammy. By falling, it indicates that workers are leaving the labor force, not that more people are working. And discouraged workers tend not to vote for the party in power. The only good news is that because of the oil spill, most people may not notice.
Two magnates, a conservative publisher and the company that bought TV Guide for $1 have all raised their hands as potential buyers of Newsweek. Dammit. I didn't get my bid in. I had a $20, but I used it to buy gas.
By the time the deadline to submit preliminary bids for the magazine expired Wednesday at 5 p.m., at least four parties had indicated an interest to the Washington Post Company, which has said it no longer views Newsweek as an economically viable operation. "We're takin' bids on this corpse! Step right up!"
It was unknown whether the Post Company considered any of the bids to be financially attractive. None of the parties that submitted bids would say how much they offered, nor would they disclose other terms of their proposals. I could maybe go as high as $25...
The Post Company declined to comment. "Gut nuttin'."
The group of potential buyers is eclectic and diverse. One is Newsmax Media, which publishes the right-leaning magazine and Web site of the same name. The company confirmed its bid in a statement issued on Wednesday. Jonathan Alter'll be taking the gaspipe. Howard Fineman's looking for rope. Eleanor Clift is thinking "nunnery."
Another bidder was OpenGate Capital, the private equity fund that owns TV Guide, said someone with direct knowledge of the company's offer, who was granted anonymity because the negotiations were private. I'da outbid their buck...
Thane Ritchie, the hedge fund manager, who unsuccessfully tried to buy the Sun Times Media Group last year, also submitted a bid, according to his spokesman. Mr. Ritchie has developed a reputation as something of a political provocateur in Illinois, most recently for his efforts to explore creating a third political party with supporters of Ross Perot. It's been done. Remember "Go, Pat, Go"? He went.
And Sidney Harman, the 91-year-old founder of the stereo equipment giant Harman Kardon, said that he had informed the Post Company that he was interested in exploring a potential bid. "Yeah. I need a tax writeoff. Got too much money."
Haim Saban, the media mogul who had expressed some interest in buying Newsweek, was not believed to be among those seriously considering placing a bid, according to someone familiar with the bidding process. "Not for me, thanks. I can buy concrete block cheaper."
There are many lingering questions about the parties that have expressed curiosity in Newsweek, including their motives for buying the magazine and how seriously they are considering it. When companies are for sale, bidders have been known to submit intentionally low prices to generate buzz. Or sometimes they just want to roll the dice on the outside chance their lowball bid is accepted. You mean I coulda gotten by bidding $10?
Newsmax, which was founded by Christopher Ruddy, the onetime Clinton family antagonist and former New York Post reporter, moved quickly to dispense with any speculation that it would remake Newsweek with a conservative slant. "The company's bid for Newsweek's print and online assets is congruent with its objective to diversify and expand into numerous distinct media brand offerings," Newsmax said in a statement. "Newsweek's staff, advertisers and readers can be assured that if Newsmax Media Inc.'s bid is successful, Newsweek's stellar brand and editorial representation would remain distinct from our other brands." "Newsmax has often published things that are interesting. Newsweak would provide a welcome contrast, since they haven't published anything interesting since 1993.
Mr. Harman stressed in a brief telephone interview that he was not making a bid but merely expressing an "intention to bid," which he said was a significant distinction. "I'm interested in looking at this extremely complicated matter," he said, adding that he did not intend to specify a purchase price in his letter of intent. "Y'see, I'm not really bidding. I'm getting ready to bid. Or maybe I'm fixin' to get ready to bid. Or it might be more accurate to say that I'm making plans to be fixin' to get ready to bid."
Whatever the final purchase price of Newsweek is, assuming the Washington Post Company can attract an offer it deems financially palatable, it is unlikely to be robust if the recent sales prices for magazines are any indication. TV Guide sold for $1 in 2008 to OpenGate Capital, which assumed tens of millions of dollars in liabilities. Bloomberg bought BusinessWeek late last year for around $5 million. BusinessWeak at least has some utility, or at least potential utility...
Any price, of course, would tell only part of the tale of what Newsweek is worth. I believe that under the iron laws of economics it's worth precisely what somebody's willing to pay for it, not a penny more...
"The top-line number is almost meaningless," said Walter Isaacson, the former Time managing editor, pointing out that liabilities like debt and pension obligations assumed by Newsweek's buyer are the more telling numbers. "I don't think a number makes any sense, whether it's zero, or $5 million or $20 million." If nobody bids and the company goes quietly into the night what happens to its debt and pension obligations?Y'gonna sue its estate?
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Now about we take up a colletion here. I bet we could raise enough to get it. Fred'd be Editor -in-Chief, the Mods are all Senior Editors and we re-name it "NewRantburg" for the first couple of years, then drop the last vestige of the old name, and switch to Rantburg DS&TP.
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I like that idea. I can picture it now: Dr. Steve writing a regular column on health care issues; TW covering social trends; Old Spook covering intelligence and foreign policy issues; JFM as our European correspondent; Elanor Clift and Joe Klein reassigned to the company cafeteria . . . .
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One is Newsmax Media
Man that would be great. Put Meacham on suicide watch
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Bobby and Mike are on to something here. Of course, we'll need a Bombsite: Target of the Week column. MOABs, ARCLIGHTs, Q-Ships, F-150s. Yeah, the drinks are on me. So stop spilling, there's enough for everyone.
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Bobby: "Now about we take up a colletion here."
Love it! I'll pledge $100.00. :-D
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might be worth it, just to Funemploy some of these assholes that write there
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"Eleanor Clift and Joe Klein reassigned to the company cafeteria . . . "
Umm - seriously, people - you want to have people like those having anything to do with your food?
I think I'll brown-bag it, or send out to Panera Bread, if y'all let me to the literary pages on "NewRantburg". And could Barbara and TW and the other ladies and I have a ration of spectacular beefcake, now and again? Shirtless is fine, no need to do the full Monty...
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I'm not sure you'd want Newsweek. Isn't that kind of like wanting a 60-year-old former Madam who looks 20years older than she is? (Think Helen Thomas)
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[Iran Press TV Latest] The White House has slapped BP with a 69-million-dollar bill for the recovery operations relating to the oil spill in Gulf of Mexico.
"The Obama administration on Thursday sent a preliminary bill for 69.09 million dollars to BP and other responsible parties for response and recovery operations relating to the BP/Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill," the government said in a statement on Thursday.
The White House has also said that BP will ultimately be responsible for all costs associated with the worst oil spill in US history.
The Oil Pollution Act of 1990, enacted after the Exxon Valdez oil disaster in Alaska, made oil giants liable for cleanup costs resulting from spills and is being used by the administration to hold BP's feet to the fire.
Since the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which left 11 people dead, more than 20 million gallons of oil has entered the sea.
Forty-five days on oil still continues to gush into water at a rate of 12,000 and 25,000 barrels per day according to official figures. However, scientists say that at least 70,000 barrels of oil leaks into sea every day.
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The way our laws work, if they pay it they're admitting guilt.
I wouldn't pay an open ended fine, I'd hold out for a definite amount, then try to negotiate it downward.
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Headline is wrong. $69mill is just the down payment.
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Well, there's the Air Force One charges, champagne and caviar for Michelle on the plane, Holdner & company researching what laws were broken, and uh ... other stuff.
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...teleprompter depreciation, hot air emission fees...
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...does BP get a royalty fee from the networks for the profits they're making from their circus show? Need to call RIAA for lawyer help.
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Friend and I were curious - I thought hurricane season begins mid-July, friend thought August. Its great and all that the accountants and lawyers in DC have a handle on this aspect, but would it not be better served for BP to directly use this money to hire out instead of the gov truffle shuffle?
But I guess that raises another question - who's in charge here? Cuz there is a ticker clock in my imagination which says this could get much worse.
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CNN AM NEWS segment > I missed most of the segment, but IIUC POTUS BAMMER was proclaiming his personal resentment of BP dolling out roughly US$10.0BILYUHN? in Dividend or Shareholder Royalties while claiming to NOT enuff $$$ to fix and end the Deepwater oil gush???
Autopsy results by forensics experts in Istanbul revealed that all nine of the men killed by Israeli commandoes aboard the humanitarian convoy that had planned to dock in Gaza died of gunshot wounds.
The autopsy results give clues about how the violence unfolded after Israeli commandoes stormed the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara in the pre-dawn hours on Monday.
Five of the men died with bullet wounds to the head, said Dr. Haluk Ince, the director of Istanbul's Medical Examination Institute, said Friday.
One casualty, a 19-year-old dual national Turkish-American citizen named Furkan Dogan, was found to have bullet wounds in his head and multiple bullets in his body, Ince said.
According to the U.S. State department, Dogan was born in Troy, New York and had been living in Turkey. American diplomats have been extending consular services to the deceased's family.
In one case, Ince said, a gunshot victim had been shot at at extremely close range.
"From the analysis of the bullet distance on one of the bodies," Dr. Ince said, "the gun was fired between 2 and 14 centimeters' distance from the victim's head."
In one month, the forensic report will be submitted to an Istanbul prosecutor's office. There have already been petitions from families of Turkish activists this week, submitted to state prosecutors to sue the government of Israel on charges of murder.
The bodies of the 9 dead, as well as more then 460 surviving passengers from the convoy arrived at Istanbul airport before dawn on Thursday. They were treated to a hero's welcome, particularly Bulent Yildirim, the chairman of the Islamist, fiercely pro-Palestinian Turkish charity the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH). IHH was one of the main groups organizing the blockade-busting flotilla.
In remarks to the press, Yildirim said his colleagues fought Israeli troops in self-defense aboard the Mavi Marmara. He added that in the early stages of the clashes, his activists captured several Israel commandoes, as well as their weapons, and took them below decks.
The Israeli troops were given water, Yildirim said. He insisted none of the activists fired the captured Israeli guns.
Israeli officials have accused the protesters of firing captured weapons during the battle at sea. The Israeli military has also shown images of a commando being beaten with a plastic chair, as well as photos of knives, metal poles, slingshots and marbles as evidence that the Mavi Marmara was a "ship of hatred" full of terrorist sympathizers rather then a "love boat" filled with peace-loving human rights activists.
"The defense of the boat was quite well organized," said Espen Goffeng, a 38-year-old activist from Norway who sailed aboard the Mavi Marmara. "There was a plan to keep soldiers off the boat."
Goffeng said passengers aboard the lead ship Mavi Marmara at first successfully repelled Israeli troops on boats. Then, he said, soldiers began their helicopters assault on the vessel.
"They started off with some kind of paintball bullets with glass in them that left terrible soft tissue wounds. And then rubber bullets. And then live ammunition afterwards. And that's when things started to get really dangerous," Goffeng added.
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With so much body armor around I suspect that elite troops are trained to use head shots when using a handgun in close quarters combat, at least as the second or third shot.
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Ha! One commando was given all the water he could ever want, problem is he had all his gear on at the time.
They started off with some kind of paintball bullets with glass in them that left terrible soft tissue wounds.
Its called a welt ya wuss. Should have been using pepperballs..bad idea in itself considering the tendency of paintball guns to jam and break balls in high humidity.
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Body, body, Head! SOP Sounds like the Turk/American was hit by two different shooters. They would not waste two shots to the head.
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Its called a welt ya wuss
The Brave Lions of Islam welcome death, just don't make them cry.
Shots at close range would be consistent with a melee. As for multiple wounds, anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Someone is obviously shopping a script for CSI-Gaza.
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"From the analysis of the bullet distance on one of the bodies," Dr. Ince said, "the gun was fired between 2 and 14 centimeters' distance from the victim's head."
They deliberately omitted which direction the bullet traveled, I'm highly suspicious would a rifle bullet go through or not?
It sounds to me that these were killed with a pistol, I'd be surprised if the ballistics were traced to an israeli rifle, sounds to me like a way to eliminate enemies and blame the Jooos.
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head shots is the only way to stop anyone in close combat. At least here they followed the rules after the disastrous starting of assualt.
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Say what you will, those IDF guys are well-trained.
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In remarks to the press, Yildirim said his colleagues fought Israeli troops in self-defense aboard the Mavi Marmara.
Sorry asshole but the (your own!) video is calling you a damn liar.
He added that in the early stages of the clashes, his activists captured several Israel commandoes, as well as their weapons, and took them below decks.
Took them below decks - by way of throwing them over the railing....
The Leviathan natural-gas site off the Haifa shore could be twice the size of the Tamar prospect, the largest gas discovery globally in 2009, and position Israel as a gas exporter in coming years, US oil operator Noble Energy Inc. said Thursday.
Today is a day of celebration for all of us. The State of Israel is an energy independent country,' Yitzhak Tshuva, controlling shareholder of Delek Group, said Thursday. Delek is a partner in the Leviathan natural-gas find through its subsidiaries Avner Oil and Gas LP and Delek Drilling LP, who each own 22.67 percent.
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Unfortunately, the pipelines to bring that natural gas onshore are going to be many times more expensive than normal because of the high security demands.
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Interesting timing on this since Turkey is one of Israel's main gas suppliers. Turkey was recently making noises about eliminating Israel from the Blue Stream 2 pipeline.
Now we get word of this major gas find, as if to tell Turkey "we don't need your stinking gas".
"the pipelines to bring that natural gas onshore are going to be many times more expensive than normal"
More expensive than the existing pipeline to Israel from Turkey? Why?
The important study, called Abraham's Children in the Genome Era: Major Jewish Diaspora Populations Comprise Distinct Genetic Clusters with Shared Middle Eastern Ancestry,' was conducted by Dr. Gil Atzmon and Prof. Edward Burns at Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Prof. Harry Ostrer of New York University's School of Medicine. It also included Prof. Eitan Friedman, head of oncogenetics at Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, and others.
They performed a genome-wide analysis of Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews; Italian, Greek and Turkish Sephardi Jews; and Iranian, Iraqi and Syrian Jews. A total of 237 participants from diverse Jewish communities in the metropolitan New York region, Seattle, Israel, Athens and Rome underwent blood tests. The 237 Jews were included only if all four grandparents came from the same Jewish community.
The results were compared with a genetic analysis of 418 people from non-Jewish groups around the world.
Jews from the different regions of the world were found to share many genetic traits that are distinct from other groups and that date back to ancient times.
The real genius of Elon Musk is that he and his team didnt go for too much too fast in the way of reducing costs. Previous efforts to build more economical launch systems have foundered largely because they attempted a massive reduction in a single step, with claimed reductions of 90% being typical. This was one problem with the Shuttle, originally billed as a mostly re-usable and far more economical system, it turned out to be just the opposite.
By setting their goals realistically, SpaceX has actually achieved a very significant reduction, around 60%, in a practical system.
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Again, CNN AM NEWS > the US GOVT-NASA desire to privatize the US Space Program ASAP AMAP.
SPACE CAPITALISM + SPACE CONSUMERISM.
* ION SPACIA/STELLUS MAGNUS, WMF > CHINA + WORLD CAN USE DEEP LUNAR CAVES, UNDERGOUND OR CAVERNS, ETC. FOR EFFECTIVE SPACE BASES. CHINESE GOVT, SPACE AGENCY LEAD IN DEV PLANS FOR CONTRUX.
[Straits Times] MALAYSIAN Chinese Association (MCA) president Chua Soi Lek yesterday said he recommended his son for a deputy minister's post because there were too few MPs in the party.
He denied that it was nepotism, or that he had struck a deal with Prime Minister Najib Razak to appoint his son in exchange for him not seeking a Cabinet post.
As MCA president, Datuk Seri Chua should by convention hold a senior Cabinet post, but he is dogged by a scandal after having been filmed having sex with an unknown woman.
The DVD, which was circulated in early 2008, forced him to relinquish his post as Health Minister at that time. He did not contest the general election held two months later. His son Chua Tee Yong stood in his place, and won.
On Tuesday, the younger Chua, 33, was made Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Agro-based Industries.
The MCA president said the names of his son and another MP were submitted as they were the only two MCA parliamentarians without a government post. Datuk Seri Najib picked his son, he said. 'That is your answer,' he told reporters yesterday when asked.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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