(AP) Police are searching for a man who used a pitchfork to rob a Waffle House restaurant northeast of Atlanta.
Norcross police say 50-year-old Jeffery Wooten entered the diner in Norcross, Georgia, Thursday night and forced people toward a back room. He then grabbed the cash register.
WSB-TV reports that the suspect dropped the pitchfork while carrying that cash register back to his truck.
Two restaurant workers followed the robber outside, grabbed the abandoned pitchfork and used it to smash a window on the robber's truck as he escaped, possibly injuring the suspect.
Norcross Police Chief Warren Summers says investigators have secured a warrant charging Wooten with armed robbery. He has not yet been caught. When you have the biggest fork in a gun free restaurant, you rule.
Worked effectively for the NAACP for years, not sure why he altered his MO.
Perhaps he wasn't given the chance. According to one of the English newspapers, the lady has political ambitions of a sort -- she plans to be president. Of the United States. Of America.
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President? Well, nobody knows much about her, but she's evidently changed her name. She obviously enjoys the company of billionaires, fully understands the power of financial extortion, and she's Halfrican-American. I'd wager she stands as good a chance as any.
[Tolo News] According to the Governor of Badakhshan, more than 2,500 people have been killed and more than 300 homes are buried under rocks and mud due to a landslide in northern Badakhshan province on Friday afternoon.
So far, only eight people have been rescued.
The incident took place in Argo district of the province when a number of the people were rescuing those already trapped in an earlier landslide, when suddenly rocks began falling causing another landslide killing more than 2,500 people, said the Governor of Badakhshan, Shah Waliwallah Adib.
Adib said that they have warned 700 other homes to evacuate because of the unsettled rock-fall.
An instructor of the Argo police headquarter, Qari Sayfuddin, added that more than 1,500 livestock were also killed in the incident.
The Deputy Interior Minister, Mohammad Ayoub Salangi, confirmed the incidents and said a rescue team has been sent to the area.
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[The Peninsula] More than 2,000 people are trapped after a landslide smashed into a village in a remote mountainous area of northeastern Afghanistan yesterday, a front man for the local governor said, prompting a massive search and rescue effort.
"There were more than 1,000 families living in that village. A total of 2,100 people - men, women and kiddies - are trapped," Naweed Forotan, a front man for the Badakhshan governor said.
A senior police official earlier said up to 500 people were missing, believed dead.
Three bodies have been pulled out of the rubble in Argo district and at least 100 people are being treated for injuries, Colonel Abdul Qadeer Sayad, a deputy police chief of Badakhshan province, said.
The landslide, which follows a week of heavy rain at a time of melting spring snow, crushed hundreds of houses and damaged hundreds more, he said.
Villagers were attempting to recover their possessions after a smaller landslide crashed into the village.
No one was hurt in the first slide, officials said. The second deadly slide struck a few hours later.
President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... ordered Afghan officials to start emergency relief efforts immediately, a palace statement said.
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I'm sure the Taliban will mobilize to help these unfortunates out. After all, they only want what's best for the Afghan peeps, right, Hamid?
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I heard Karzai catered a food safety conference.
NEW YORK -- Health officials say a deadly virus from the Middle East has turned up for the first time in the U.S. No details about the case have been released. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention planned a Friday afternoon briefing about the case. The CDC says it is investigating along with health officials in Indiana.
The virus has been found in camels, but officials don't know how it is spreading to humans.
Middle East respiratory syndrome - or MERS - first surfaced two years ago. Since then, at least 400 cases of the respiratory illness have been reported, and more than 100 people have died. Saudi Arabia was been the center of the outbreak. All the victims have had ties to the Middle East or to someone who traveled there.
The virus has been found in camels, but officials don't know how it is spreading to humans.
Public Health England was on Friday night contacting two passengers who flew to Heathrow alongside a man diagnosed with a deadly camel-borne virus that has killed dozens in the Middle East.
America confirmed that the first reported case within its borders of the newly emerging Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or Mers, had been detected in the state of Indiana, where an American had been hospitalised after returning to the US a week ago.
The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said AmericaÂ’s first case of the virus involved a US citizen who worked as a health care worker in Saudi Arabia.
Public Health England said the man flew on British Airways Flight 262 from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to London, and transferred at Heathrow for onward travel to the US, where he was later hospitalised.
“The risk of the infection being passed to other passengers on Flight 262 is extremely low,” the body said. “However, as a precautionary measure, Public Health England has contacted UK passengers who were sitting in the vicinity of the affected passenger to provide health information.”
Egypt has issued a warning against travel to Saudi Arabia as the virus spreads across the region just before the pilgrimage season.
EgyptÂ’s health ministry said that it was warning children under 15 and adults over 65, pregnant women and anyone suffering from chronic heart and chest diseases to postpone their pilgrimages.
The main Hajj season is in October this year, but many Muslims also make Umrah, the so-called “lesser pilgrimage”, at other times.
The case of the Egyptian who fell ill was first picked up at Cairo airport. He is said to be in a stable condition in hospital, but his uncle in Saudi Arabia, from whom he is believed to have become infected, has already died.
Mers causes a fever and a cough, but the effect can vary dramatically, with a high mortality rate in some people, but a majority testing positive with minor symptoms or none at all.
The infected person in Indiana is being kept in isolation in hospital.
"We can break the chain of transmission in this case through focused efforts here and abroad,” said Dr Tom Frieden, the director of the CDC.
Wash your hands with soap and water every two hours, dear Reader, and do not touch your T-zone. The Army ran the experiment, and that cuts your chance of contracting any infection by something like 90%.
Following near record shattering shootings in Chicago, a city with one of the most draconian gun laws in the nation, a Chicago police official, Garry McCarthy, has demanded even more gun control. Gun control has worked very well in Illinois, if your goal is to have young black men shoot each other in large numbers.
Researching the latest Bundy ranch episode has consumed my time, so I made note of very little from last week.
The left's fever swamp is brimful of creeps demanding dead men and women at the Bundy Ranch. Crazy f*ckers.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol and rifle ammunition were mostly lower.
Prices for used rifles were mixed, while prices for used pistols were mostly higher.
Pistol Ammo
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: No Change
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Munire USA, Tulammo, steel cased, .31 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Quality Made Cartridges, reloaded, .31 per round (Unchanged (Seven of previous 10 weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Selway Armory, Ultramax, reloaded, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Store Brand, reloaded, .27 per round (Unchanged: Five weeks)
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain From Last Week: -.01 each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Natchez Shooters Supply, Tulammo, Steel Cased, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store brand, reloaded, RN, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged)
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bangit Ammo, Parabellum Research, Reloaded, .40 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 250 Rounds: LAX Ammunition, Reloaded, .38 per round (Unchanged from last week (!) (-.21 Each over previous three weeks (!)))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire USA, Wolf Polyformance, steel cased, .27 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf Polyformance, steel cased, .27 per round (from Last Week: Unchanged (Three weeks))
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: +.15 Each (!) (After falling .15 each three weeks ago)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Goose Island Sales, Prvi partizan, steel cased, .62 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Bulk Ammo, Wolf Military Classic, steel cased, .56 per round (From last week: +.09 Each (!))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Natchez Shooters Supplies, Wolf, steel case, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Bulk Ammo, Wolf, steel case, .21 per round (Unchanged from Last Week (Three Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: -.03 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Glenn's Army Navy Store, CCI Blazer, .10 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 5,000 rounds: Ammo Fast, Eley Sport, .12 per round (Unchanged From Last Week)
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $660 Last Week Avg: $675 (-)
California (190): Smith & Wesson M&P15: $700
Texas (281): Dirty Martin Arms: $650
Pennsylvania (152): Olympic Arms: $650
Virgina (168): Mixed Build: $650
Florida (392): Mixed Build: $650
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,365 Last Week Avg: $1,310 (+)
California (53): DPMS: $1,500 (Same Gun)
Texas (60): Rock River Armory LAR-8: $1,250 (Possibly Same Gun)
Pennsylvania (32): DPMS LR308: $1,475
Virginia (46): Armalite AR-10: $1,200 (Same Gun)
Florida (79): Armalite AR-10: $1,400 (Same Gun)
7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $635 Last Week Avg: $595 (+)
California (44): AMD: $650
Texas (51): Zastava: $650 (Same Gun)
Pennsylvania (62): Zastava: $550
Virginia (64): B. West AKS: $700
Florida (108): CAI Vz58: $625 (Same Gun)
7.62x54mm (Dragunov Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: 1,250 Last Week Avg: Unchanged ()
California (7): Romak PSL: $1,300 (Same Gun)
Texas (4): Romak PSL: $1,200 (Same Gun)
Pennsylvania: None Available
Virginia: None Available
Florida: None Available
Pistols
.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $482 Last Week Avg: $480 (+)
California (134): Rock Island Armory: $460
Texas (191): LLama: $550
Pennsylvania (161): Mixed Build: $450 (Same Gun)
Virginia (152): Para Ordnance: $450
Florida (367): Auto Ordnance: $500
9mm Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic Average Price: $449 Last Week Avg: $431 (+)
California (122): Glock 17: $475
Texas (301): Kahr PM9: $4
Pennsylvania (179): Glock 19: $400 (Same Gun)
Virginia (216): Glock 19: $475
Florida (444): Glock 17: $475
.40 caliber S&W (Glock and other semiautomatic) Average Price: $455 Last Week Avg: $450 (+)
California (69): Glock 22: $450 (Possibly Same Gun)
Texas (145): Glock 23: $475
Pennsylvania (124): Glock 22: $400
Virginia (106): Glock 27: $475)
Florida (176): Glock 27: $475
[Tolo News] On Friday, local officials in northern Kunduz province said a 10-year-old girl was raped by a mullah in a garden in the capital of the province two days ago.
The girl has been taken to a hospital in Kunduz city and mullah Aminullah was incarcerated Please don't kill me! .
The victim's family sent her to learn how to read and recite the Koran from Mullah Aminullah.
The girl was weeping while explaining how it unfolded.
"[He] forcefully took me outside of the mosque and tied my hands, legs and mouth," she cried. "I was yelling 'be afraid of God,' he continued to rape me."
As she was crying reliving the rape, she said that at the end of the incident mullah Aminullah threatened her saying, "if you tell your family about this, I will kill them."
The victim's mother said she sent her daughter to the mosque to receive a religious study. She added that mullah Aminullah arrived to their village two months ago.
Officials at the governmental hospital in Kunduz confirmed that the girl was raped.
The tragic incident has followed major condemnations; Kunduz Provincial Women Affairs Department head, Nadira Giya, has asked the legal and judicial branches to severely punish the rapist.
"Those who were involved in this should be punished to serve as a lesson for others," Giya said.
Just last week, a man named Sayed Ahmad had his ears and nose cut off by relatives in northern Baghlan province after he reportedly raped his young female cousin.
Ahmad's aunt said that he raped her daughter three months ago. She said her and her husband were the ones who severed his ears and nose as punishment. They have both been taken into custody by provincial police.
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South Sudan’s president agreed Friday to meet with his rival as soon as next week to jumpstart peace talks that have been stalled for months and, potentially, lay groundwork for a new government to bring the world’s newest nation out of bloodshed.
And with Jahwn involved, it's doomed from the start...
US Secretary of State John Kerry met for about 90 minutes with President Salva Kiir in his lush office compound in the capital Juba and emerged to announce a tentative agreement for the peace talks as early as next week in Ethiopia. The prime minister of Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegn, has agreed to mediate the talks.
Kerry said Kiir’s rival, the former vice president-turned-rebel Riek Machar, has previously indicated he would engage in cease-fire discussions. The American diplomat said he hoped to speak to Machar later Friday.
“The unspeakable human costs that we are seeing over the course of the last months, and which could even grow if they fail to sit down, are unacceptable to the global community,” Kerry told reporters after his meeting with Kiir. “Before the promise of South Sudan’s future is soaked in more blood, President Kiir and the opposition must work immediately for cessation of hostilities and to move toward an understanding about future governance for the country.”
Kerry said a cease-fire would likely lead to a transitional government in South Sudan but declined to comment on whether Kiir or Macher could have a role in the country’s future leadership.
If the peace talks happen, they would mark a turning point in nearly six months of horrific fighting that has largely broken down along ethnic lines between rival Dinka and Nuer tribes. The violence has been compared to the threat of genocide, and could also lead to famine later this year since farmers among the nearly 1 million South Sudanese who have fled their homes have had to abandon their crops.
Thousands have been killed in the fighting, which began when Kiir, a Dinka, accused Machar, a Nuer, of plotting a coup to seize power last December.
An earlier cease fire agreement, reached last January, was abandoned within days.
If Kiir and Macher fail to move strongly to curb the violence, or if other fighters continue to violate human rights and disrupt humanitarian aid, Kerry they would be held accountable. The consequences would range from economic sanctions to, potentially, prosecution by international courts.
African nations are willing to deploy between 2,500 and 5,500 troops initially for peacekeeping missions under the auspices of the United Nations. That would require a new U.N. mandate.
The U.S. and U.N. have threatened to bring sanctions against militants on both sides of the fighting — including, potentially, Kiir and Machar themselves. And Western officials are trying to persuade the African Union to deploy thousands of troops to South Sudan to keep the peace.
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[Iran Press TV] Venezuela says 58 foreigners have been detained for sparking anti-government protests and violence that have rocked the Latin American nation for the last three months.
The nabbed Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! include Colombians, an American, a Spaniard and an Arab, Venezuela's Minister of Interior, Justice, and Peace, Miguel Rodriguez Torres told a presser on Friday.
"Up to now, there are 58 detainees of other nationalities, almost all implicated in the use of arms," Rodriguez said, displaying a large number of flowcharts and photos of meetings, phone calls and plotting.
The US citizen, identified as Todd Michael Leininger, is charged with arms smuggling and attempted murder.
Rodriguez also accused the United States of committing conspiracy to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
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Not to be confused with the Cuban advisers and security personnel.
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Russian president Putin is preparing to issue a Russian credit card in response to EU and US sanctions over the Crimea crisis, reports Spiegel. Visa and MasterCard, the two big US credit card companies, have warned their earnings in Russia may be hit. One wonders if Chinese would be interested?
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If cardholder, or rather cardbearer,
Should make a political error,
We'll correct the amount
In their Cheking account
And put them back in the Red Terror.
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Let's see the difference between a ex-KGB thug heading up a central bank and that of the heads of the big Western commercial banks and central banks is...uh...wait a minute..it'll come to me...Oh instead of using multiple nail gun rounds Putin's boys do it with one pistol round or one dose of a radioactive isotope, Also he's using a gold backed currency. I wonder if you get a deal if you also open a savings and checking account. "Yes, I've got the Tokarev special card. If I keep good credit with them Natasha comes around and gives me a bonus. If I mess up Boris comes around and I donate enough organs to make up the arrears balance."
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The people of Ukraine will hold the Kiev government responsible for launching a "punitive" operation in the south-east, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. The air force was being used against the people, he said on Russian state TV. The EU and the U.S. had to give their views on this, he said, and the Ukrainian government must reconsider its action. . . Russian intervention to "protect human rights"? Just imagine how the tranzies --- who consider such interventions to be their private property ---will howl.
The Cossack issue has become relevant in Russia against the backdrop of the outflow of ethnic Russians from the North Caucasus (http://expert.ru/ratings/izmenenie-doli-russkih-v-naselenii-respublik-severnogo-kavkaza/). Chechnya and Ingushetia have practically become ethnically homogeneous and Dagestan will soon become the next republic to shed its ethnic Russian population entirely (http://skfonews.info/article/124). Ethnic Russians are also leaving North Ossetia and Kabardino-Balkaria (http://www.riss.ru/my-v-smi/2075-status-i-perspektivy-russkogo-naseleniya-na-severnom-kavkaze#.U2CWsrp_v-k). Adygea and Karachaevo-Cherkessia have had large ethnic-Russian populations over the past century and a half, and the situation there is still under MoscowÂ’s control. It should be noted that the outflow of ethnic Russians from the North Caucasus differs from republic to republic. The outmigration of Russians from Dagestan is not the same as the outmigration from North Ossetia, for example. In the first case it is caused by the growth of radical Islam and its confrontation with the authorities, while ethnic Russian are leaving North Ossetia because of the republicÂ’s bleak prospects against the backdrop of a general deterioration of the situation in the area.
It is not surprising that the Russian state has decided to place its bet on the Cossacks, who historically performed the mission of a paramilitary community on the edges of the Russian Empire and moved into the territory of the mountaineers under the protection of the Russian army. The Russian EmpireÂ’s presence was affirmed through the presence of the Cossacks. Naturally, the outflow of ethnic Russians today includes Terek Cossacks, which is why Moscow is paying so much attention to propping up the Cossacks in this part of Russia. Sixteen laws, government decrees and amendments involving the Cossacks that have been adopted over the past 20 years, which testifies to how important the Cossack issue is to the Russian government (http://www.cossacks-lb.ru/laws.html). Twelve of these measures were passed while Vladimir Putin was either president or prime minister.
The mountaineers view the rebirth of the Cossack community with alarm. Dispatching a Cossack battalion named after General Alexei Yermolov to Chechnya during the first Russian-Chechen war of 1994–1996 was a great blunder on the part of the Russian government. Yermolov has always been considered a murderer of civilians during the period of Chechnya’s colonization in the 19th century (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miZ61StT3KU). The unveiling of a monument dedicated to Yermolov in the center of Pyatigorsk was seen as a challenge to the North Caucasian mountaineers (http://www.kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/178797/). At the same time, the Russian government warns the mountaineers not to erect monuments to people who resisted the Russian generals who conquered the Caucasus in the 19th century (http://rbcdaily.ru/society/562949988962292).
Both the Kuban and Terek Cossacks are located in the North Caucasus. The Terek Cossacks are considered to reside on the most problematic territory, which includes parts of Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria and Stavropol region. This explains why in January 2010, then-president Dmitry Medvedev made the decision to establish the North Caucasian Federal District, which was carved out of the Southern Federal District. Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachaevo-Cherkessia, North Ossetia–Alania, Chechnya and Stavropol region were included in the new district. This territory was part of Russia’s Terek and Dagestani oblasts prior to 1917 (http://www.runivers.ru/maps/podratlas/24/).
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Sixteen laws, government decrees and amendments involving the Cossacks that have been adopted over the past 20 years, which testifies to how important the Cossack issue is to the Russian government
Putin will use them effectively, as his methods aid in the rehabilitation of the cossack ethnicity
Maps of Cossack Hosts or Areas in Russian Territories
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Whats next, Putin will need to build a border wall and patrol it to keep his people *IN* ? And Deploy MVD Interior military to keep the ethnic minorities (soon to be majorities) controlled?
[Beirut Daily Star] Russia on Friday said it was "outraged" by the day's events in Odessa which left more 30 people dead and denounced the "criminal irresponsibility" of the pro-Western authorities in Kiev.
Russia's foreign ministry said in a statement Moscow called on Ukraine and its "Western backers to end the anarchy and take responsibility before the Ukranian people". It added that Moscow viewed the "tragic events" as a sign of Kiev's "criminal irresponsibility".
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[Beirut Daily Star] North Korea signaled a key leadership change with the announcement Friday that the man seen as supreme leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... 's No. 2 had been replaced as political chief of the military.
In a report on May Day celebrations in Pyongyang, the North's official KCNA news agency named Hwang Pyong So as director of the Korean People's Army General Political Bureau, not Choe Ryong Hae, who previously held the position.
The post is viewed as the second most important in the military after Kim, who is supreme commander.
The leadership change comes amid growing concerns that the North is preparing to conduct a fourth nuclear test in the face of stern international opposition after satellite images showed a recent increase in activity at the country's main test site.
"To all intents and purposes, this makes Hwang, who also has close personal ties to Kim Jong-un, the second most powerful man in the country," said Michael Madden, author and editor of the NK Leadership Watch website.
Hwang's appointment came just days after KCNA reported his promotion to the rank of vice marshall on April 28 -- a rank shared with Choe and just four others.
It was not immediately clear what had become of Choe, who was widely believed to have moved into the role of North Korea's unofficial No. 2 following the execution in December of Kim's uncle and political mentor, Jang Song Thaek.
Choe holds a number of other top positions as a politburo standing committee member and a vice chairman of both the Central Military Commission and the National Defense Commission.
There were multiple reports earlier this year that Choe had been incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! and possibly purged after he dropped from public view for three weeks -- an unusually long absence for such a senior figure.
His reappearance in March, alongside Kim, led to speculation that his disappearance might have been due to health problems.
"I don't think we can say Choe has been purged, but he's clearly been moved aside, possibly for health or other reasons," said Yang Moo Jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul.
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The Ukrainian crisis comes as nations within the European Union prepare to cast their votes in the May European Parliament elections. Eurosceptic parties are raising their voices, and their popularity is rapidly growing, as citizens continue to grow tired of austerity and bureaucracy ruling Europe. Will the May elections change the stakes? To find this out, Sophie [Shevardnadze, Russian TV] talks to Dutch politician and leader of the Eurosceptic Party for Freedom, Geert Wilders. The heir of Pym Fortyn with, one hopes, better security.
[Iran Press TV] Civilians near Ukraine's flashpoint city of Slavyansk have stopped a column of Ukrainian armored vehicles and troops from entering the city amid a Kiev offensive on pro-Russian protesters.
Local residents prevented the column from entering Slavyansk on Friday as the acting Kiev government deployed armed forces to the city's suburbs in a bid to retake the city.
The acting Kiev government launched the military offensive earlier on Friday, using armored vehicles, helicopters and tanks, but their advance towards the city has been limited.
According to Ukraine's Interior Ministry, the country's armed forces are now controlling at least nine Slavyansk checkpoints set up by the protesters.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the city of 130,000 residents is still mostly under the control of pro-Russian protesters.
Kiev also confirmed that pro-Russian gunnies shot down two army helicopters, killing two pilots. In addition, another pilot was injured and taken to hospital by the gunnies.
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[Beirut Daily Star] Thirty-eight people died in an arson attack against a trade union building in Ukraine's southern city of Odessa late Friday, after a day of violent festivities between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian Death Eaters, according to officials.
Ukraine's Interior Ministry, which spoke of a "criminal arson attack," said 30 of those killed were asphyxiated by smoke and eight died trying to escape by jumping out of windows.
Earlier, festivities between the pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian protesters killed four people -- the first eruption of violence in the south after weeks of mounting unrest in Ukraine's east, and the bloodiest day since Kiev's Western-backed government took power.
The U.S. threatened to hit Russia with devastating new sanctions within three weeks if it continued its "destabilization" of Ukraine, where authorities struck pro-Moscow rebels.
Intensifying the war of words that has characterized the monthslong crisis, Obama threatened to expand punitive sanctions to broad sections of the Russian economy if Moscow continued to foment chaos in the former Soviet Republic ahead of planned May 25 presidential polls.
"If in fact we see the disruptions and the destabilization continuing so severely that it impedes elections on May 25, we will not have a choice but to move forward with additional ... severe sanctions," Obama said at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... .
Previously the administration has said such measures would only come into force if Russia sent its 40,000 troops on the border into Ukraine.
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[The Peninsula] The US threatened yesterday to hit Russia with devastating new sanctions within three weeks if it continued its "destabilisation" of Ukraine, where authorities struck pro-Moscow rebels and violence spread to the south in the bloodiest day since Kiev's Western-backed government took power.
Thirty-eight people died in an arson attack against a trade union building in Ukraine's southern city of Odessa, after a day of violent festivities between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian murderous Moslems, according to officials.
Ukraine's interior ministry, which spoke of a "criminal arson attack", said 30 of those killed were asphyxiated by smoke and eight died trying to escape by jumping out of windows.
Intensifying the war of words that has characterised the months-long crisis, Obama threatened to expand punitive sanctions to broad sections of the Russian economy if Moscow continued to foment chaos in the former Soviet Republic ahead of planned May 25 presidential elections.
"If in fact we see the disruptions and the destabilisation continuing so severely that it impedes elections on May 25, we will not have a choice but to move forward with additional... severe sanctions," Obama said at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... .
"If Russia continues on its current course, we have a range of tools at our disposal, including sanctions that would target certain sectors of the Russian economy," Obama said.
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See also VOICE OF RUSSIA > BRZEZINSKI URGES OBAMA TO DELIVER WEAPONS TO UKRAINE.
"ZIGGY" enters the fray.
and
* BIGNEWSNETWORK > US COULD REACT IMMEDIATELY IFF RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE, SAYS AMERICAN AMBASSADOR.
* VOICE OF RUSSIA > NATO SHIPS ARRIVE IN LITHUANIA, LATVIAN PM WANTS US TROOPS PERMAMNETLY BASED IN HIS COUNTRY.
ROMANIA wants the USN to base, deploy Warships in the Black sea.
versus
* TOPIX > [CNN.com] OBAMA A "LAME DUCK" FOR 33 MONTHS?
Iff true, 'TIS JUST GOOD ANTI-US [US?]
"GLOBALISM"???
* WORLD NEWS > [RIA] CHOMSKY: US SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR GITMO [Guantanamo Bay, Cuba] ANNEXATION, back in 1903.
US + Gitmo 1903 [Caribbean, Panama Canal security] = Putin-Russia + Crimea 2014 [Black Sea, Bosphorus Straits security].
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* GROONG > [ICH.com] KERRY WARNS OF "HOT CONFRONTATION" [possibly NUCLEAR] BY US AGZ RUSSIA, even iff Russian troops do or do NOT invade Ukraine.
* SAME > [Iragir.com] MOSCOW WILL BE A FRONT-LINE CITY.
ARTIC = Ex-Cold War Superpower Russia may have to face increasingly potent Asian, Islamic
interests, either separately or in joint, while an isolated + marginal nation.
Yuuup.
THE ABOVE IS YET ANOTHER ARTIC IN SUPPORT OFN WHY I SAY THE US-ALLIES = WEST SHOULD NOT + CANNOT BE TOO HARSH AGZ PUTIN + RUSSIA OVER THE CRIMEA.
The US-West will not only be empowering or inspiring NUCLEAR ISLAM, but NUCLEAR ISLAMIC RADICALISM + NUKE-LED UNILATERAL ISLAMIC MILPOL'GEOPOL AGGRESSIONISM OVER-N-BEYOND WHAT "MODERATE" OR EXTERMIST ANTI-US OWG GLOBALISTS CAN CONTROL.
THE ENTIRE JUDEOCHRISTIAN WORLD WILL BE AT EXISTENTIAL RISK OF DE FACTO ANNIHILATION.
#7
BTW, for someone who has no use for the 'rule of law' in the unending pursuit of power, how hard is it to grasp that such rituals have no effect on someone else so inclined? If one was so Byzantine in mind, one might suppose that this is just Kabuki theater for the masses and the BO-Putin 'more maneuver room' program is to reestablish the old lines of territorial demarcation between autocrats. How did that old Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact work out for everyone?
#11
The rule of law only works when the participants are willing to let the laws rule. Putin is not such a person. Neither is Obama, although in a difference, more craven fashion.
#12
If one was so Byzantine in mind, one might suppose that this is just Kabuki theater for the masses and the BO-Putin 'more maneuver room' program is to reestablish the old lines of territorial demarcation between autocrats.
[Beirut Daily Star] Turkish prosecutors on Friday dropped a case against 60 people, including the son of a former minister, in a corruption probe that has rocked the Islamic-rooted government, local media said.
An Istanbul prosecutor handling the probe into graft in Turkey's housing agency TOKI decided not to take the suspects to court, citing "lack of evidence" for his decision.
The suspects who escaped prosecution include Oguz Bayraktar, the son of former environment minister Erdogan Bayraktar, and construction tycoon Ali Agaoglu, the Dogan news agency reported.
They were detained in police raids in mid-December when the corruption scandal first erupted and charged with accepting and facilitating bribes for construction projects and securing construction permits for protected areas.
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Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has decided to maintain a three-term limit for its deputies, the clearest signal yet that Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan will run for the presidency in an August election, the party said on May 2, Hurriyet Daily News reported.
There has been speculation in Turkey that the AKP could change its rules to enable Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics for more than a decade, to stay on as prime minister for a fourth term.
"It was decided appropriate to take no steps on the three-term rule," AKP spokesman Huseyin Celik said in a statement, following a five-hour meeting of the party's executive board to discuss the August presidential vote.
Erdogan said in October he would run in the country's first direct presidential election if asked to do so by the party. But his failure to establish the executive presidency he wanted to beef up the largely ceremonial role, and a corruption scandal that has dogged his government since December, had fuelled speculation that he may seek to stay as prime minister.
In the May 2 meeting, the AKP also decided that the party will not propose to change Turkey's current electoral system. Celik announced the decision that future elections will go by the current electoral system.
Prime Minister Erdogan had previously spoken about the Turkish government working on a new election law that would divide the country into 550 single member districts. Currently, the country has 85 districts and 550 members of parliament.
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Wowsers this is REALLY becoming more and more curious every day...I still say the jet will magically reappear loaded with explosives and flying as an unwelcome guest in someone's airspace...
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(AP) Police are searching for a man who used a pitchfork to rob a Waffle House restaurant northeast of Atlanta.
NEW YORK -- Health officials say a deadly virus from the Middle East has turned up for the first time in the U.S. No details about the case have been released. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention planned a Friday afternoon briefing about the case. The CDC says it is investigating along with health officials in Indiana.
[Beirut Daily Star] 
[Beirut Daily Star] Thirty-eight people died in an arson attack against a trade union building in Ukraine's southern city of Odessa late Friday, after a day of violent 
B.O. warnings....what could they mean ? 
Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has decided to maintain a three-term limit for its deputies, the clearest signal yet that Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan will run for the presidency in an August election, the party said on May 2, Hurriyet Daily News reported.
