[MY9NJ] Authorities say the owner of $4 stores in northern New Jersey has admitted to a scheme in which patrons were allowed to make more than $5 million in fraudulent food stamp transactions. I think they might mean "four dollar stores," but who knows? Maybe there's a chain called "$4." Maybe it's that they only take freshly printed four dollar bills, which would be the kind of business Mr. Farooq might run...
Essex County prosecutors say 49-year-old Muhammed Farooq of Somerset pleaded guilty Wednesday to theft by deception and agreed to forfeit $832,830, He faces up to seven years in state prison when he's sentenced Jan. 6.
Authorities have said Farooq allowed patrons to use food stamps to buy nonfood items, such as electronics. They say the purchases totaled roughly $5.2 million and went on for nearly 2 1/2 years.
Farooq owns two stores in Newark, one in East Orange and another in Elizabeth.
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Farooq owns two stores in Newark, one in East Orange and another in Elizabeth.
Owned, not owns, he's out now.
Earooq, wonder what religion he is.
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I think they should deliver food. Bloomberg and Moocherelle should "nudge" the menu those on benefits get.
It would be ironic to see the nanny statists kill their own supporters with innedible food.
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Prolly just a training issue. Send a cupala million $ and some Obamacare Navigators to this affirmative-action vortex and everything will be better for poor Muhammed....
[LATIMES] A McDonald's manager in the Bay Area was locked away You have the right to remain silent... on suspicion of using a gun to rob his own restaurant and another one and ordering workers into the freezer in both incidents, police said Tuesday.
Felix Becerra, 42, manages a McDonald's in Pleasanton and is accused of donning a white mask and using what was described as a small-caliber handgun to rob the restaurant Aug. 28, according to police.
The suspect took an undisclosed amount of cash and told ordered workers into a freezer, the Pleasanton Police Department said.
Police said Becerra allegedly robbed another McDonalds in San Mateo on Aug. 2.
"The suspect in this case entered the restaurant and pointed a revolver at employees, ordered them into the freezer and then held the manager at gunpoint while ordering him to open the cash register," police officials said in a statement.
Police said Becerra was taken into custody by authorities in San Mateo and allegedly confessed to committing both robberies. He was being held Tuesday at the San Mateo county jail
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Omits telling what color he is.
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The AC72 features a rigid 131-foot wing sail. Think of it as a jumbo jetliner wing stood on its end, but with some flexibility that allows for adjustments to the wind.
The two catamarans zipping across San Francisco Bay in the America's Cup finals each weighs about 163 tons less than America, the winning yacht in 1851 and namesake for sports' oldest active trophy. The lighter load obviously helps these boats achieve speeds up to 50 mph, but there's much more to their design; both are engineering marvels that maximize the energy provided by wind and water.
The AC72 (America's Cup, 72 feet long) catamarans are defending America's Cup champion Oracle Team USA, owned by billionaire Larry Ellison, and challenger Emirates Team New Zealand.
The Kiwis have won four of the first five races and need five more wins to claim the trophy, and Oracle Team USA needs 10 more wins (because of a penalty) to retain the Cup. Racing resumes Thursday.
Unlike the soft sails and single hull used by America and most of the boats in the event's history, the innovative AC72s are built for speed and power.
"When you move from a conventional boat like a monohull to a multihull, there is a sudden increase in boat speed," said Mario Camponnetto, one of five senior designers for Oracle Team USA.
The key feature in the AC72's design is the rigid 131-foot wing sail, essentially a jumbo jetliner wing stood on its end. But there is some flexibility that allows for adjustments to the wind the wing sail has two primary parts, a main element and a flap, connected by a hinge that can be moved to control the angle between the two. And it's the angle at which wind encounters the sail that makes all the difference in generating maximum power.
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Break out the Bofors, the Cup must be defended.
The Old Farmer's Almanac predicts you'll need your snow shovel at the ready this winter.
The other jury is in: A second periodical used for everything from predicting the weather to helping people lose weight agrees that this winter's shaping up to be cold and snowy.
The Dublin, N.H.-based Old Farmer's Almanac which, at 222, is believed to be the oldest continuously published periodical in North America, is predicting that a drop in solar activity and a change in ocean patterns point to colder-than-average temperatures and higher-than-average snowfall totals.
The 2014 edition officially comes out Tuesday.
Last month, the Maine-based Farmer's Almanac, said much the same. The younger cousin has been published for a mere 197 years.
The Old Farmer's Almanac predicts a cold winter for every region but the lower Great Lakes, upper Midwest and the northern states of the Northeast.
"Sweaters and snow shovels should be unpacked early and kept close by throughout the season," said Janice Stillman, editor of the Old Farmer's Almanac.
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Judging by the Arctic ice pack, they may be right.
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is predicting that a drop in solar activity and a change in ocean patterns point to colder-than-average temperatures and higher-than-average snowfall totals.
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They may be right, if insect behavior is any indication.
For the past 2 weeks, I've had huge hornets (1-1/2 to 2 inches long) trying to get in my back door every night (attracted to the automatic deck light, and then to the door/window and the kitchen lights when that goes out).
They started coming in pairs at first, but have picked up lately - the other morning, I had to sweep 7 or 8 bodies off the deck in front of the door. (When they start flying at the storm door, I pull down the top window, which rolls down a screen, and zap them with hornet spray through the screen. [Insert maniacal laughter here])
I've NEVER had this happen before in the 30+ years I've lived here. Can't find a nest anywhere in the area, either. I mentioned this to a friend who's kinda country and he said they were trying to find someplace warm to hole up for the winter since they "knew" it was going to be severe; the ants were doing the same thing. It's as good an explanation as any.
I need to go up to the attic with the hornet spray and look to see if they've gotten in there. :-(
So hang on tight, friends - it's coming!
(And I don't even want to think about the electric and oil bills, which have already gone up from last year.)
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I understand they are already shoveling in Vail CO.
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Love your dedication to hornet eradication Barb, I had a nest under my gazebo, so I masked the skirt off and tossed a couple of hornet b gone bombs under but no joy. (did I mention I was checking the shelf life of my beer at the time) I had been cleaning with a shop vac and the small opening left in the skirt masking kind of funneled those critters there ( did I mention the beer I was checking was taking effect) so I started hovering them them up, one at a time. made a satisfying 'thump' when they hit the bend in the hose.
quite fun actually.
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.... oh goody, on my checklist of finding a house in Arkansas, was a fireplace.... remembered a year my sister was out of power for some 5-6 days, and their big fireplace saved them....
No fireplace, and been reading and making preparations for all these plants I have, wondering what winter is like... and now, I learn.... it will be worse.....
CIO - In 1998, the U.S. Government updated Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, requiring federal agencies to make electronic communications accessible to disabled employees and members of the public. Standards created to comply with Section 508 list specific requirements that organizations must meet. Subpart B deals specifically with websites and lists 16 individual requirements.
Section 508 applies only to U.S. Government bureaus, agencies, and organizations. State and local governments and businesses are under no obligation to comply. However, a flurry of lawsuits filed by advocates for the disabled make it clear that current business exemptions from accessibility requirements can't go on forever.
Filers on these cases assert that the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to the Web since it's a public "space." Businesses should thus be required to make their "space" on the Internet just as accessible as they must make their physical spaces. Recent high-profile settlements involved Target, which paid $6 million in damages and made its website fully accessible, and Netflix, which agreed to provide closed captioning for all streaming movies by 2014.
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[An Nahar] Mozambique's bid to end a conflict with former rebels that has unnerved investors hit an impasse on Wednesday after the group's leader refused to leave his bush camp for talks.
Former rebel leader Afonso Dhlakama has refused to leave his base in the Gorongosa Mountains to meet President Armando Guebuza, unless armed forces withdraw from the area.
"The soldiers surrounding my base are not here to party with me. They want to eliminate me physically. To stop this happening, I will not abandon my base," Dhlakama was quoted as saying by independent daily O Pais.
"I want the meeting... but only if they remove all soldiers and riot police," Dhlakama said after talks with a mediator, Anglican Bishop Dinis Sengulane.
Dhlakama, who led Renamo rebels during Mozambique's brutal 16-year civil war, is demanding a cut of coal and gas revenues as well as changes to election laws and the army.
His forces' recent festivities with government soldiers and attacks on civilian trucks along Mozambique's main highway come at a sensitive time for the southern African country, which is starting to find its feet after the war ended in 1992.
The unrest forced Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto to suspend coal exports by rail for a few days in June.
The bishop's visit to Gorongosa was the latest in a flurry of attempts by rights and church groups to convince Dhlakama to travel to the capital Maputo for negotiations.
Guebuza remained open to face-to-face talks, his front man said Wednesday.
"At this moment the head of state is waiting patiently for the president of Renamo to have the same wish," presidential front man Edson Macuacua told a news conference.
But time to solve the stalemate is running out before local polls on November 20.
Renamo is threatening to disrupt the vote unless laws are changed to give them equal representation with the ruling Frelimo party on all election bodies.
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[An Nahar] More than 550 children have left the ranks of gangs in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... province of Katanga, the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... said Wednesday.
"The awareness campaign calling for children to leave gangs succeeded in demobilizing 557 children between March and August," the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement.
Shelters have taken in 444 children, while another 113 have rejoined their families, the U.N. agency said.
The gangs in the north of Katanga who have used child soldiers include the notorious Mai Mai militia, but the regular army has also used them, OCHA said
Sylvestre Ntumba Mudingayi, OCHA's deputy communications chief, said that 27 of those freed this year had been in the regular army.
The programme was carried out by the humanitarian group Action Against Poverty with support from the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), OCHA said.
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[Al Ahram] Almost 100 people have died this week in two days of fighting between the new Central African Republic president's forces and those loyal to ousted leader Francois Bozize, the presidency said Wednesday, updating an earlier toll.
"We believe the current toll is nearly 100 dead and around 50 injured" following festivities in the western areas of Bossangoa and Bouca on Sunday and Monday, presidential front man Guy-Simplice Kodegue told national radio.
He said the corpse count could still rise and praised international aid groups for caring for the maimed.
The fighting erupted Sunday near Bossangoa, some 250 kilometres (150 miles) north of the capital Bangui, Bozize's home region.
Bozize ruled the troubled nation for 10 years until his overthrow on March 24 by the Seleka rebel coalition, led by current President Michel Djotodia.
The new toll came after humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders said rival fighters of Bozize and Djotodia had committed "atrocities" against civilians in a new wave of fighting sweeping the area.
The fighters killed an undetermined number of people, carried out summary executions and burnt down people's houses during fighting Monday in the village of Bouca, the charity said.
There were no reports of new festivities on Wednesday in the region, where according to military sources Bozize supporters have seized control of several villages.
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[Al Ahram] Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... on Wednesday sacked nine ministers in a major cabinet reshuffle amid tensions within the ruling party as his rivals manoeuvre ahead of 2015 elections.
Those sacked included Foreign Minister Olugbenga Ashiru, Education Minister Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai and Housing Minister Ama Pepple.
The national planning, environment and science and technology ministers were also removed in addition to junior ministers for defence, agriculture and power.
Presidency front man Reuben Abati confirmed the names from the 39-member cabinet. High profile ministers such as Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Oil Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke remained in place.
No specific reason was given for the reshuffle, which comes as the president battles infighting in his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and a rising opposition coalition that could pose a major challenge in the 2015 vote.
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LONDON Britains Royal Mail, whose origins date back to the reign of Henry VIII, is to be sold off to private investors, the government announced Thursday, setting up a bitter battle over the selling of a national icon.
Even former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who happily sold off other services such as Britains railways, considered unloading the Royal Mail a step too far, reputedly saying that she wasnt ready to have the queens head privatized. Queen Elizabeth IIs profile appears on all stamps in this country.
But the Conservative-led government says that letting go of the Royal Mail is an idea whose time has come as officials try to shrink the public purse in an age of austerity.
Patients 50% more likely to die of neglect than in US, says study
Clinical care trails the rest of the Western World, it has emerged
Britons have five times the chance of dying from pneumonia than U.S.
NHS death rates are much higher than many western European countries
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coming to America. A solution to the Social Security funding problem
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It makes sense, when you "Go to Hospital" for everything, there's a umber of people who can't recover.
Looks like the British have found that number.
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Yep, we knock them off before they can even get to the hospital in Chicago, Da Capital, Detroit, New Orleans, etc. Can't count as dying in hospital when the chalk outline's on the street or sidewalk.
The Liverpool care pathway is to be abolished following a government-commissioned review which heard that hospital staff wrongly interpreted its guidance for care of the dying, leading to stories of patients who were drugged and deprived of fluids in their last weeks of life.
[An Nahar] Georgia on Wednesday voiced "extreme concern" over the presence of Russian troops in its breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Once upon a time President George W. Bush cared about such things. But he's an ex-president now, and the current office holder is much too busy having nightmares in which the commander of the Russian troops didn't save his bacon. Timing is everything, as they say. Perhaps the next president will be smarter.
"I must express our extreme concern over the critical situation in the two regions of Georgia currently under the Russian occupation," Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze told the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.
"The ongoing violations in Georgia's occupied regions and adjacent areas require your immediate attention and urgent measures," she said.
Nestled on the Black Sea, the Russian-backed territory of Abkhazia declared independence from Georgia following a brutal war in the early 1990s.
Abkhazia and South Ossetia are recognized only by Russia and a few far-flung states.
Russia - which fought a brief war with Georgia in 2008 over South Ossetia -- has several thousand troops stationed in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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Wonderful sense of timing these Georgians have.
[VOA News] North and South Korea have agreed to reopen a jointly-run industrial park just inside the North Korean border on a trial basis starting next Monday.
The South's Unification Ministry says negotiators reached the deal on the Kaesong industrial complex following lengthy negotiations that lasted through early Wednesday.
The two sides tentatively agreed last month to reopen the facility, which was effectively closed by the North in April. But the South was still looking for compensation for its companies hit by the closure.
The owner of one of the Kaesong factories, Rok-Sec Garments President Park Young-man, told VOA's Korean service that he is very happy with the agreement, but the process of getting back to business will take some time.
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It' a trap, don't fall for it.
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Lucy Van Pelt to the courtesy phone. It's football season again.
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The Norks are putting the Korean equivalent of Hope and Change on a blue screen, and the Skors are projecting their dreams on it. Just like O.
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we should withdraw all US troops. If they want to play with cobras, let them do it on their own. Any chance this would happen without Uncle Sam's umbrella? Me neither. F these greedy bastards
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A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that strippers at one New York City club who sued over the owner's fee-for-work rule are correct -- they are entitled to protections under labor laws. That means they are entitled to be paid at least minimum wage, the judge said.
The suit started after strippers said their club manager at Rick's Cabaret International wrongfully forced them to pay numerous fees in order to perform at the facility. Moreover, they weren't paid any wages but only allowed to keep a certain portion of their tips from customers, they said.
The club argued they were independent contractors and not entitled to wages.
But Judge Paul Engelmayer found in favor of the strippers. He said they were the "main attraction" at the club, key to the business' success.
A spokesman for the club was defiant in the face of the judge's ruling, saying that operations would not change and that an appeal was in the works, AP reported.
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I wonder if it's easy to be a stripper with broken kneecaps?
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Here's the game. The owners who operate these establishments treat the dancers as contractors who use the facility to work. They 'kick-in' fees to perform. As such the establishment is able to legally distance themselves from certain actions done by the contractors rather than be tied by actions of employees. Think of a 'farmers market' but with services rather than goods. Those operating the market are not culpable for tainted produce being sold by vendors.
If the performers become 'employees', the establishment then becomes liable for the actions of the dancers. Further as employees the usual management requirements of workers comp, workers unemployment, social security, etc come into play.
This is the way that the prudes, the alliance of the stereotypical puritans and femnazis, could get their way of shutting these facilities down. Most club management couldn't stay open if they had to pay all that employee overhead. They become economically unsustainable.
Then again, the only unionized club in SanFran closed, following the ever growing march of union achievements to support the SEIU government workers at the unemployment offices.
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So, P2K, although many bars can operate at a profit even without serving food, somehow, a bar with strippers can't make enough money to stay open? I sort of doubt it.
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Actually, has seen a couple close up in the big city in the last couple of years. Drive by one day, open, drive by another, closed. The numbers are decreasing. I blame the internet. ;)
[Al Ahram] A German court ruled on Wednesday that Muslim girls must take part in school swimming lessons with boys, in a landmark decision that touches on the sensitive relationship between religion and the state.
The decision by Germany's top court for public and administrative disputes signals that the state's constitutional obligation to educate children can take precedence over customs and practices linked to an individual's religious beliefs.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her center-right government have sought dialogue with the country's roughly four-millions Muslims, but have also said they must make an effort to integrate and learn German.
The court said Muslim schoolgirls could not be exempted from swimming lessons, provided they were allowed to wear so-called 'burkinis', full-body swimsuits worn by many Muslim women which leave only the face, hands and feet exposed.
The plaintiff was a Muslim girl, originally from Morocco, who goes to school in the western state of Hesse. Her parents have tried for several years to stop her from joining swimming lessons with boys. She was 11 years old when the case started.
"The plaintiff has not made sufficiently clear that ... taking part in co-educational swimming lessons with a burkini breaches Muslim rules on clothing," said the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig, rejecting her appeal.
Two courts in Hesse had already rejected her bid to be exempted from swimming lessons.
However, the girl's lawyer argued that she was embarrassed to see boys wearing nothing but swimming trunks.
"The Koran not only forbids being seen by others in light clothing but she herself should not see boys and girls with (swimsuits) on," Klaus Meissner, her lawyer, was quoted in German media as saying before the hearing.
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This week, in Los Angeles, leaders of the nations labor union movement gathered together for the AFL-CIOs annual convention. Along with the usual sessions on political action, solidarity and the like, union leaders shared their concerns about the impact of Obamacare on union-sponsored health insurance plans. Terence OSullivan, president of the Laborers International Union of North America, said, If the Affordable Care Act is not fixed, and it destroys the health and welfare funds that we have fought for and stand for, then I believe it needs to be repealed.
We dont want it to be repealed, OSullivan continued. We want it to be fixed, by allowing union members with employer-sponsored health coverage to take advantage of subsidies intended for the uninsured. Weve had our asses kicked on retirement security and we know our health funds are under siege. We ask the president and Congress to do the right thing for the men and women we represent.
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yeah...it's a real b*tch when your own ox gets gored, eh AFL-CIO....?
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If I form a union of one, and donate all my dues to my favorite political party (no, not that one - or that one either) can I get an ObamaCare waiver?
[ABCNEWS.GO] Pope Francis is enjoying being pope but what he doesn't like are the restrictions to his movement and having to be escorted everywhere.
Last Saturday he saw the perfect opportunity to regain a bit of his lost freedom and enjoy a joy ride in the Vatican when he took possession of a nearly 30-year old Renault 4 which had just been given to him and drove off happily in the Vatican "as if it were the most normal thing in the world."
The car was given to the pope by the Rev. Renzo Zocca, a 69-year-old Italian parish priest.
"The security personnel next to me were very concerned because they understood that from now on he would be tooling around the Vatican in my car," Zocca told the Italian Catholic weekly Famiglia Cristiana. "I left some snow chains in the trunk. You never know," he told the police who looked rather concerned as they watched the pope drive off.
Zocca had arrived at the Vatican, as arranged, with his old car on a tow truck together with a busload of a hundred pilgrims from the parish of Santa Lucia di Pescantina in Verona in northern Italia to donate his much-loved car to the pontiff. It was the afternoon shortly before the pope's prayer vigil for peace was scheduled to start in St. Peter's Square with over 100,000 people attending. The white four-door classic 1984 Renault with its 800 cc. 30-horse power engine, French stick shift that comes out from the dashboard and deck-chair-style seats has clocked 186,000 miles. It was fully checked and readied by a mechanic who accompanied the priest to Rome for the occasion.
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Oh Shit, every Muslim will be gunning for it.
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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.
[LATIMES] A McDonald's manager in the Bay Area was 
[Al Ahram] Nigerian President 
North Korea
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that strippers at one New York City club who sued over the owner's fee-for-work rule are correct -- they are entitled to protections under labor laws. That means they are entitled to be paid at least minimum wage, the judge said.
[Al Ahram] A German court ruled on Wednesday that Muslim girls must take part in school swimming lessons with boys, in a landmark decision that touches on the sensitive relationship between religion and the state.
[ABCNEWS.GO] Pope Francis is enjoying being pope but what he doesn't like are the restrictions to his movement and having to be escorted everywhere.
