[Chicago Tribune] Gunmen opened fire on a Southeast Side park, killing a 17-year-old boy and wounding three others in a neighborhood that hasn't seen a slaying since last summer, Chicago police said this morning.
The shooting at Merrill Park in the 2100 block of East 96th Place occurred minutes after a separate shooting that wounded two teens in the Marquette Park neighborhood, leaving six people wounded in a 15-minute span, authorities said.
But in all, at least 13 people were wounded in shootings across the city since 8 p.m. Monday, according to early police reports.
The four victims were all standing in the park at about 10:18 p.m., when police said at least two gunmen, one armed with a handgun and the other with a rifle, emerged from a nearby gangway and opened fire, police said.
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Isn't it about time that Chicago had some reasonable gun laws? Hmm. They can't take guns AWAY since no one is allowed to have them...It must be time to put everyone in tightly-controlled work camps to ensure that they stay happy and safe and productive for the State!
Yep, some of the most strict unconstitutional gun laws in effect. How's it working out for you.
BTW, there's a lot of places with "poverty and hopelessness", like the Navajo Reservation that straddles a big portion of northern Arizona-New Mexico, but not the level of violence that excuses are made for.
PORTLAND, Maine -- A civilian laborer set a fire that caused $400 million in damage to a nuclear-powered submarine because he had anxiety and wanted to get out of work early, Navy investigators said Monday.
Casey James Fury, 24, of Portsmouth, N.H., faces up to life in prison if convicted of two counts of arson in the fire aboard the USS Miami attack submarine while it was in dry dock May 23 and a second blaze outside the sub on June 16.
Fury was taking medications for anxiety and depression and told investigators he set the fires so he could get out of work, according a seven-page affidavit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Portland.
The Miami was in dry dock at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, for an overhaul when the fire damaged the torpedo room and command area inside the forward compartment. It took more than 12 hours to extinguish.
A second fire was reported June 16 on the dry dock cradle on which the Miami rests, but there was no damage and no injuries.
Fury, who was working on the sub as a painter and sandblaster, initially denied starting the fires but eventually acknowledged his involvement, the affidavit states. He admitted setting the May 23 fire, which caused an estimated $400 million in damage, while taking a lie-detector test and being told by the examiner he wasn't being truthful.
Fury told Timothy Bailey, an agent for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, that "his anxiety started getting really bad," so he grabbed his cigarettes and a lighter, walked up to a bunk room and set fire to some rags on the top bunk.
The Navy originally said the fire started when an industrial vacuum cleaner sucked up a heat source that ignited debris inside.
Fury said he set the second fire after getting anxious over a text-message exchange with an ex-girlfriend about a man she had started seeing, according to the affidavit. He wanted to leave work early, so he took some alcohol wipes and set them on fire outside the submarine.
Fury said he initially lied about setting the fires "because he was scared and because everything was blurry to him and his memory was impacted due to his anxiety and the medication he was taking at the time," according to the affidavit.
If convicted of either charge, Fury could face life imprisonment and a fine of up to $250,000 and be ordered to pay restitution, officials said.
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Restitution? $400 million, that might take some overtime and weekends too.
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Wonder what kinda meds he can get for his anxiety in prison.
[Iran Press TV] US National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has fined Penn State University 60 million dollars in connection with a sex abuse scandal committed by long-serving football coach Jerry Sandusky. It's a state university, which means the money comes out of the pockets of Pennsylvania taxpayers...
The university, a famous US football school, also loses all victories from 1998-2001 and will face a four-year ban from competing for honors. I can see the four-year ban, maybe kinda sorta, but I don't see what's served by "unwinning" 13 years worth of games that the athletes won, as far as anyone can tell, fair and square. I know of a lawyer who was arrested for attempting to "liase" with a 13-year-old girl. Nobody's called for any cases he won to be reversed. If it was a garbage man they wouldn't be bringing everybody's garbage back.
US college sport authorities said the punishments are "corrective and punitive". Punitive, certainly, but I'm not sure how it punishes Jerry Sandusky.
Sandusky faced 52 criminal counts that he sexually abused 10 boys over 15 years, allegations he has denied. His arrest and the fallout led to departures of longtime football coach Joe Paterno and the university president. Neither Paterno nor that university president abused the boys. The fact that Paterno "preferred not to notice" Sandusky's antics doesn't negate the fact that he was a winning coach. For that matter, it doesn't make Sandusky into other than a winning assistant coach. Sandusky's a dirtbag and Paterno decided to be a moral coward, but the football players played the games honestly.
"Football will never again be placed ahead of educating, nurturing and protecting young people," NCAA President Mark Emmert was quoted as saying. Penn State is a football school but it's anything but a degree mill.
"This case is obviously incredibly unprecedented in every aspect of it, as are these actions that we're taking today," he said. "Unprecedented" isn't the same thing as "appropriate."
The sex scandal has sullied the squeaky clean image of Penn State's former head football coach Paterno, who died in January, months before the resolution of the case. Paterno had won more college football games in his long career at Penn State than any other head coach in university sport. Which had nothing to do with any criminal activity...
A university-commissioned investigation, led by FBI, concluded in July that Paterno and several other brass hats at Penn State remained tight-lipped for years about accusations against Sandusky.
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And the $ 60 million dollars in boodle will be distributed to the Penn State victims and nationally to sexually abused children advocacy groups.
....to the NCAA to establish new, highly paid NCAA staff monitoring positions and legal staff.
A list of those personnel contained in the FBI report, who for 15 years grinned and turned the other cheek has been forwarded to the University for employment termination.
We at the NCAA (who know best) feel that these measures along with the meaningless toppling of the Paterno bronze statue and the "unwinning" of games will cleanse our collective embarrasment and provide sufficient cover minimual impact to our continuing goal of offering culturally diverse accademic opportunity.
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Being a State sponsered university and all. Yes it was noted that no state funds will be used to pay the fine, and it was also noted that the university's monies are fungible.
As an observation, what keeps PA from telling the NCAA to go pound sand, mothballing its athletics department for anything other than students who also enjoy athletics, and panning out for, say, five years or so, competing in events outside of the NCAA, and focusing on acedemics?
Somebody noted that the fine amounts to only one year revenue from the football department, roughly. That is pre-scandal revenue, sure there will be boosters and die-hards, but who is going to buy their son a jersey now?
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As an observation, what keeps PA from telling the NCAA to go pound sand, mothballing its athletics department for anything other than students who also enjoy athletics, and panning out for, say, five years or so, competing in events outside of the NCAA, and focusing on acedemics?
Contractual obligations with the Big Ten Conference, radio & television networks, sponsors, coaches & staff (who'd lose their paychecks), etc. They'd also have a tough time meeting their nearly $20M/year ongoing debt service obligation.
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Somebody in the Penn State community was quoted the other day, objecting to the pillorying of Paterno, saying that "Paterno didn't do it to protect Sandusky, he did it to protect the school he loved." It in this case being: sacrificing children on the altar of the football program. The speaker obviously doesn't grasp the concept that a child's safety is more important than the damn football program.
I agree with Fred that the NCAA is hypocritical in a lot of ways anyhow. Since Paterno is dead, it's a lot easier to blast his memory than to deal with a living person. That said, the university and community's mindless idolatry of the football program allowed this horror to happen. Penn State deserves every bit of the sanctions and opprobrium it's getting. Maybe that will help people like the person I quoted above realize the depth of the horror that he's trying to excuse.
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While Penn State is supported by the commonwealth, so are Pitt, and Temple. Penn State is an independent school, not owned by the state as are Slippery Rock, Lock Haven, Kutztown and the other schools in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. Graham Spanier and Joe Paterno frequently flipped the bird to the governor, legislature and people of Pennsylvania. Penn State had a Cornell Plan. It may now be on hold. The money will not come from the taxpayers.
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Neither Paterno nor that university president abused the boys.
I couldn't disagree more. They were co-conspirators who knew exactly what was going on and did nothing as Sandusky ruined life after life. They covered for him. To save the reputation of their Mecca. Joe Pa knew exactly what was going on but could ignore it until the indictment. Then he had to confront the horror he had tolerate. And it killed him, not cancer.
I look forward to Graham's time in the slammer. I hope he gets the same sentence as Jerry. Maybe they could get adjoining cells.
[An Nahar] Shoppers at a Sears department store in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania were evacuated after an unwanted guest -- a young female bear -- wandered in over the weekend, local media said.
The animal became trapped Saturday night after entering the Sears store in the Pittsburgh Mills mall, located northeast of the city of Pittsburgh, through the automatic doors, the reports said.
Shopper Matt Marcinik told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that he had seen the bear running across the mall's parking lot before it went into the store.
"It was running up and down the aisles," Marcinik told the newspaper. "It darted past several people. They didn't even know it was a bear."
Wildlife officials shot the roughly 125-pound (57-kilogram) bear -- which was wearing a tracking device -- with a tranquilizer and captured it.
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Do bears Piss in the W..Ummm.
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Wildlife officials shot the roughly 125-pound (57-kilogram) bear female -- which was wearing a Blueberry tracking device -- with a tranquilizer happy juice and captured it.
Reads basically like a lot of Saturday night encounters.
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"The animal became trapped Saturday night after entering the Sears store in the Pittsburgh Mills mall, located northeast of the city of Pittsburgh, through the automatic doors, the reports said."
Have you ever noticed how malls are designed deliberately so you can't find your way out quickly? This little incident might teach them why that's not totally a good idea.
[An Nahar] Egypt on Monday began to release detainees held by the military following a decree last week by President Mohammed Morsi, security officials told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"Prison authorities have begun releasing the detainees," an official told AFP.
Morsi, who was sworn in last month as Egypt's first elected civilian president, on Thursday issued an order to pardon 572 people convicted by military tribunals.
Their release comes on a public holiday marking the 1952 military coup d'etat that ultimately led to the overthrow of the monarchy in Egypt.
The Egyptian president had ordered the formation of a committee to review the cases of civilians tried by the military.
A total of 11,879 Egyptians have been placed in long-term storage You have the right to remain silent... by the military since last year's uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , according to figures issued by the committee. Of these, 9,714 have since been released.
Activists and international rights groups have repeatedly called for the end to military trials of civilians which they say do not meet the requirements of independence and impartiality.
"International law is crystal-clear on this: no civilian, regardless of the crime, should be tried by a military court," Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... , said last week.
She urged Morsi to take a "principled human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... stance and pardon all civilians convicted by military tribunals."
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[Iran Press TV] Morocco's riot police have clashed with demonstrators in the western city of Casablanca, where people took to street to protest against the high cost of living and unemployment.
Protesters marched in the city on Sunday evening to express their anger over the North African country's soaring inflation.
Dozens of people were maimed and several others were incarcerated Please don't kill me! when security forces attacked the protesters who were chanting anti governmental slogans.
Moroccans have witnessed a sharp rise in food prices after their government increased the price of gasoline by 20 percent in January.
Protesters say the parliamentary polls last November failed to display true democratic reforms and that the US-backed ruling monarchy is not committed to real changes.
The Justice and Development Party won the most seats and formed a coalition government.
The country has been facing serious economic troubles over the past few years, with high unemployment and rising levels of poverty.
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[Al Ahram] Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Monday signed a pledge drawn up by global media rights bodies to boost press freedom and stop the criminal prosecution of journalists.
Sirleaf signed the Table Mountain Declaration at a ceremony, saying "we are committed to advancing free press and free expression not just in Liberia but to use our leadership role to promote it on the entire continent of Africa."
She is only the second African leader after Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou, to sign the declaration adopted by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) in Cape Town, South Africa in 2007.
One of the main aims of the declaration is to abolish insult and criminal laws against journalists, who could however still be sued in civil court.
Sirleaf has instructed the swift amendment of laws which still prohibit free speech. According to the Press Union of Liberia these are laws on sedition, and criminal libel against the president.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Police yesterday charged batons on the orphans of Natore Sarkari Shishu Sadan in Bonbelghoria area leaving 15 of them injured.
The orphanage authorities were about to shift some of the orphans to different districts on a microbus around 9:00am.
The orphans, however, refused to obey the decision, said police and locals. Being informed, police came at the scene and tried to force them into the vehicle.
But as all the orphans of the home, including those to be shifted, brought out a procession protesting the move, police charged batons on them.
The injured were given treatment locally.
Assistant Superintendent of Police Mahfuzzaman said the orphans pelted at the law enforcers with brickbats after blocking NATOre-Dhaka highway. The police then charged batons on them to calm the situation, he claimed.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... the boys alleged that they blocked the highway after being baton-charged.
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Lance Corporal Bale Baleiwai has spent his whole adult life in the British Army. He has a glowing service record, a row of medals and a starring role in Army recruitment advertising.
His reward is a deportation notice. After 13 years fighting for Britain, it has given him three weeks to leave the country. "When I had the uniform on, I was a British soldier," he says. "Now I have taken it off, I'm just a problem they want to get rid of."
L/Cpl Baleiwai was British enough for two tours in Iraq, dodging the bullets on escort duty. He was British enough to patrol Belfast and Bosnia. In Afghanistan, he was British enough to spend seven months as a gunner in a brigade recce force, under daily Taliban fire that killed three of his comrades.
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Itsa magic. Now you're British enuff, mow you ain't.In any case, if he were British, he may be getting a pension and that would take welfare money away from some more deserving muslum imam.
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Besoeker gets it. Thank you for your service, Lt. Morant, here's your bullet.
The Brits have always treated their military people poorly. The ones who aren't native English or Scots they treat worse.
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This sort of behavior is demoralizing for the ordinary soldiers and citizens who are trying to lead normal, simple, unexceptional lives. I think things are difficult enough as it is without these emotional people rocking the boat.
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For it's Beleiwai this, an' Beleiwai that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Beleiwai this, an' Beleiwai that, an' anything you please;
An' Beleiwai ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that Beleiwai sees!
[Iran Press TV] Kristen Smith is a member of Women Occupy San Diego. She believes that a lot of Americans feel that "our current policies favor the rich and the corporations and so Obama has not done enough to change those policies that favor the rich and the corporations."
In a phone interview with Press TV's U.S. Desk on Monday, she added that it was okay for corporations to exist and that Obama did not need to prevent them, "but he should tax them much more and tax rich Americans much more, so in that way, we can put more money into the infrastructure of this country and into things like education and roads and bridges and healthcare and a sustainable energy system."
Smith continued that the campaign system for people who get elected in American was such that a lot of money was needed in order to get elected.
"They need so much money to get elected that the politicians take money for their campaigns from the rich and then they are beholden to the interests of the rich once they are in office. And then when they leave office, many of them go on to work for lobbyists and they end up getting their salaries from the very same people. So right now, we have a government that is protecting the interests of corporations and not doing enough on things like climate change."
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I wonder how MSNBC missed this one?
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Roast Golden Goose is a meal the state can eat but once.
[Dawn] A court on Monday ordered police to protect an Afghan couple who eloped and fear being murdered by the bride's relatives.
Hewad, 22, and Mariyam Marjman fled Kabul last month to marry for love in the leafy town of Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... in northwest Pakistain.
Marjman, also 22, told AFP her parents had wanted her to wed the ageing husband of her sister, who had recently died, instead. She says that if taken back to Afghanistan she would probably be murdered for marrying a man of her own choice.
The high court in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar took up the case after being moved by reports of the couple's plight.
"The couple should be provided proper accommodation in Peshawar and foolproof security because of threats to their lives," said judge Dost Muhammad Khan.
The pair, whom Pak authorities had previously housed separately, were accompanied in court by an armed police escort, an AFP news hound said.
The judges called another hearing next week to check their orders had been implemented.
The young couple escaped their conservative families' clutches with the help of a Pak friend -- taking the dead sister's two-year-old daughter with them -- but say relatives of the bride have since travelled to Pakistain in a bid to force them back.
Hewad, who uses only one name, told AFP: "I have serious threats to my life from Mariyam's relatives, from her parents and her brothers.
"I am sure they can harm me here and if we are sent back to Afghanistan, they will simply shoot us."
Despite progress in recent years and improved legal protection, women suffer chronic rights abuses in both Afghanistan and Pakistain.
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All about Eugene Kaspersky, the man whose antivirus company discovered Stuxnet.
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Kaspersky is NOT your friend, their Antivirus hides and is damn had to erase, I just fought it to extinction.
They say "Gimme Money" to get rid of it. (I didn't)
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He had help. Nobody is successful without the help of others :). In this case he may have had assistance. I do like his style. Looks self made.
Sounds like a movie possibility.
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Always inquire when buying anti virus software, where it was produced. If they hem and haw and don't want to tell you, don't buy it. Do NOT download free anti virus software from the internet. Avoid foreign software of any sort on your computers.
As for Russians, I sometimes check the IP addresses of log entries on my web server to see where they come from. IMHO, Russia is the number one source of hacking attempts followed closely by China. I fear the Chinese more because with them it is a well organized state sponsored activity with vast resources behind it.
I'm happy to see that Kaspersky is a man who enjoys his whiskey but I wouldn't trust him any further than I could throw him and, as hefty as he appears to be, that wouldn't be very far. The Iranians are fools to trust Russians.
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Iranian leadership is pumped up now. Why I don't know. I believe they are waiting for us to make a mistake. With all that we have there, things can go badly quick. Perhaps the Russians and possibly China have worked a deal. Romney is going out of the country and I would hope England will be his first visit and then Germany. I personally hope he meets Putin as well. Maybe ride motorcycles or a horseback ride(Russians love their horses). Get some gravitas. Putin respects people with a backbone. Stand toe to toe, eye to eye. Putin has drawn a line in the sand. They must grapple in order to earn respect for each other. Then great things could happen. I see it as an important time in history.
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Taking meds around a nuke sub? I'm sure the weapons had been removed, but basic security issues should have been in effect disallowing anyone on med's in or around the vessel. Fundamental lesson why on display.
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Just for the record, this clown is a sand crab (civilian yard worker), not a sailor. With fewer than half the ships vs. my own time in the service, the Navy's a hell of a lot more selective in who it allows to enlist and to remain in service. In my day, a DUI out in town meant the offending squid plea-bargained the citation down to reckless driving and paid Jerry Brown's treasury a few hundred bucks, with little or nothing said by the chain of command. Nowadays, it means an admin discharge, do not pass go, do not collect two hundred dollars.
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I understand he's a civie, but the standards of conduct around nukes [vessels or weapons] should be exactly the same for the consequences on display.
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I understand he's a civie, but the standards of conduct around nukes [vessels or weapons] should be exactly the same for the consequences on display.
No disagreement here, P2K. Makes one wonder how this nimrod got a naval shipyard job in the first place...maybe the dirtbag nephew of a union official?
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People like this need to be put against a wall at the back of the base and shot.
Have him make 50 runs in a burn trailer, with one out of three has a box of .22s randomly placed. Gear is rated, so should be just a friendly scare, rather than, you know, charging a powder room on a structure specifically designed not to vent.
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A moment please. First fire on May 16, second fire 2.5 weeks later. Curious how poor security is around such a vessel, considering modern technology and all. I love a good conspiracy theory.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Gunmen opened fire on a Southeast Side park, killing a 17-year-old boy and wounding three others in a neighborhood that hasn't seen a slaying since last summer, Chicago police said this morning.
PORTLAND, Maine -- A civilian laborer set a fire that caused $400 million in damage to a nuclear-powered submarine because he had anxiety and wanted to get out of work early, Navy investigators said Monday.
Shoppers at a Sears department store in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania were evacuated after an unwanted guest -- a young female bear -- wandered in over the weekend, local media said.
A court on Monday ordered police to protect an Afghan couple who eloped and fear being murdered by the bride's relatives.
