[Breitbart] A Tucson, Arizona kidnapping and extortion plot of an American teen on U.S. soil was committed by previously deported illegal aliens from Mexico and a U.S. citizen who was arrested multiple times by Border Patrol agents for alleged alien smuggling and let go without prosecution by the U.S. Attorneys Office. A group of six or seven men kidnapped the American teen in Tucson and mistakenly thought he belonged to a wealthy family. The men tortured the teen and insisted his parents hand over $400,000.
Breitbart Texas has exclusively confirmed that three of the subjects are Mexican nationals who have been previously deported from the United States. A Situational Awareness Report from the Joint Intelligence and Operations Center was sent to law enforcement agents in the region and it stated, On September 2nd, Tucson Police received a report that a 16-year-old male had been kidnapped TPD officers were able to apprehend four of the subjects from the residence that ran out of the house when they approached the 16-year-old victim also exited the house, he had a blindfold on his face and his hands were tied. The victim had obvious signs of trauma that appeared to be from physical assault in the residence, officers found an assault rifle, several handguns, and narcotics Record checks reveal that three of the subjects are citizens of Mexico that have been previously deported from the U.S., the other two subjects are U.S. citizens one of the U.S. citizens had been arrested on two prior occasions by the Nogales Border Patrol Station for alien smuggling on both occasions, prosecutions was not sought.
The report was provided to Breitbart Texas by a U.S. federal agent who revealed the information on the condition of anonymity.
Open-source aspects of the issue were first reported by Tucson News Now, though they did not report that several of the subjects were Mexican nationals who had been previously deported or that one of the U.S. citizens was not prosecuted by U.S. authorities after repeated arrests by U.S. Border Patrol for alien smuggling. According to Tucson News Now, the teenage victim "said he was tied up, beaten and drugged several times over a 24-hour period. It all started on Tuesday afternoon when he was invited over to a friend's house to play video games. It ended on Wednesday when TPD [Tucson Police Department] surrounded the house, and quite possibly, saved this young man's life."
"They tied me up. They were asking me personal questions about my family, about things like that... Where do they live, what do they do, this and that." The report continued, "That's because their end game was money. A group of five to seven men, he said, beat him, drugged him and made him drink tequila until he vomited." This is the kind of thing you see all the time throughout Central and South America. Relatives of perceived wealthy families held for ransom. Now it is starting by these people allowed in illegally by President Obama. When I went to Brazil recently, the fear of my Brazilian friend and her wealthy family was that while I was there, I would be kidnapped after being seen with them and held for ransom in the slums.
[Gulf News] A university student in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... has shot his Jordanian teacher in an apparent act of "Dire Revenge™" after he failed his exams.
The student, who failed last year to pass the orientation exam in preparatory English as demanded by the university in the northern Saudi city of Ha'il to fulfil the enrolment requirements, had to take the course again and with the same teacher.
On the first day, the student reportedly brought a gun to class, hiding it in his clothes, local daily Al Eqtisdaiya reported.
Ten minutes into the course, the student, who was not named, stood up and fired three consecutive shots at the teacher.
The first bullet barely hit the teacher's belt while the other two struck the wall. The student then fled from the conference hall and ran towards a car waiting for him in front of the university.
Students took the number of the getaway car and reported it to the security staff who rushed to the scene. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... one hour later, the student gave himself up to the police, the daily said.
The university confirmed in a statement the incident, saying that it happened on Tuesday at 10.30am inside the building for preparatory courses given ahead of the formal admission.
"The student fired three shots from a gun he had concealed in his clothes," the university said. "The teacher was not injured and was able to hide in another place. The student escaped in a car that belonged to one of his friends," it said.
The attack was promptly condemned by social network users, saying that it was "dangerous and ridiculous."
"It is an attempted murder, and I wonder how a student would think about killing a teacher," one blogger, Mon, posted. "What benefits would he gain from killing his teacher? It is really shocking."
Another blogger, writing under the moniker of Hamoodovic, called for stringent action.
"If every student who fails in his exams carries a gun to kill his teachers, then all universities would turn into grounds for massacres. This student has to be severely punished. He has obviously a history of failures. He failed his exams and he failed to control and manage his anger," he said.
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[EAGNEWS.ORG] QUEENSLAND, Australia -- Students and parents at Peregian Springs State School are flipping out after officials banned unsupervised playground cartwheels and handstands to prevent injuries.
Two children at the school have been injured recently -- one broke a wrist, the other was kicked in the head -- while performing "cheerleader type stunts," prompting principal Gwen Sands to issue a ban on Monday in the school's newsletter, SunshineCoastDaily.au reports.
"All students have been advised that under no circumstances are they allowed to perform cart wheels, handstands or any other type of gymnastic move at school unless they are properly supervised by a trained PE teacher," according to the announcement. "It would be appreciated if you could remind your children about the safety issues involved with these types of moves."
The news site reports the announcement "caused a stir and left many parents wondering what would be next on the 'ban' wagon."
"When are we going to let kids just be kids?" local government minister David Crisafulli questioned. "I respect the right of the school to protect their students but I also respect the right of children to have a happy childhood, and surely we can find a middle ground in all of this."
Parent Jess Jackman-Ferguson told Sunshine Coast Daily that her six-year-old son is convinced the "silly rule" is designed to suck all of the fun out of school.
Others, like parent Melissa Forrester, contend that the cartwheel ban is simply the latest in a line of other no fun policies in the school district.
Her children were banned from playing with their friends immediately before or after class.
"They have to sit quietly and wait in designated areas or in their classrooms for school to begin," she said.
"Everything is becoming more and more strict and they are allowed to be kids less and less," another disgruntled parent told Sunshine Coast Daily. "I know a lot of other parents also feel it is ridiculous.
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"When are we going to let kids just be kids?"
Probably right around the time the left starts expecting adults to be adults.
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Getting dings, bruises, cuts, sprains, et al are part of growing up, learning limits and expanding abilities. It's not about being sequestered into a little safe box to grow fat, lazy, and stupid. Unless, you're a bureaucrat that's tired of having to fill out a ledger of paperwork created by other bureaucrats to micromanage 'normal' life.
[IBTIMES.CO.UK] Activists are angry with Egypt's Minister of Antiquities, Mamdouh Eldamaty, for choosing to re-hire a company to restore one of Egypt's oldest pyramids after the firm caused damage and major deterioration to the structure while trying to repair it.
According to the Non-Stop Robberies movement, the famous Step Pyramid of Djoser, located in the Saqqara necropolis, sustained serious damage while being restored by a company called Shurbagy. This led to major deterioration and the collapse of a section of the pyramid.
"Technically, the company and officials of the Supreme Council of Antiquities committed a full-fledged crime," Amir Gamal, a representative of Non-Stop Robberies, told the Egypt Independent.
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Not being an Egyptologist, I have no idea how faithful the restoration is to the original decor, but personally, I rather like the orange shag carpeting and the avocado appliances.
[BREITBART] Michigan's largest teachers' union should allow members to resign at any time and stop enforcing an annual one-month opt-out window, a state labor judge ruled, relying on the state's right-to-work law that took effect last year.
The administrative law judge, Julia Stern, recommended Tuesday that the Republican-controlled Employment Relations Commission order the Michigan Education Association to no longer limit school employees to leaving the union in August. She said the right-to-work law incorporated a federal law interpreted to give public employees the ability to leave their union anytime.
The state's largest public-sector union said Thursday that fewer than 5,000 of 110,000, or 5 percent, of active members opted out last month. Opponents countered that roughly 50,000 had no incentive to leave because they still have to pay fees for bargaining and other services -- even if they decide not to belong and pay full dues -- until their labor contracts lapse. The union said the 50,000 figure is high.
The legal decision and the union's decision to make public its latest membership figures followed an intense month of lobbying by organized labor and pro-business groups to persuade teachers to leave or stay, in the first real test of the law that no longer allows forced union fees as a condition of employment.
Lawyers on both sides learned of Stern's decision Wednesday night.
"Judge Stern's ruling goes along with our belief that teachers are professionals and not piggybanks for the MEA," said Patrick Wright, director of the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation.
Steven Cook, the union's president, said its members believe in the union and public education, and "no amount of outside rhetoric is going to dissuade them."
An appeal is planned, first with the commission -- controlled 2-1 by Republicans -- and then likely the state appeals court and ultimately the Michigan Supreme Court.
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More of this, please.
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Newsflash: Egypt still held together by chewing gum and bailing wire... and lots and lots of duct tape. Still, if anyone can add another layer of the stuff holding the country together, its President el-Sissi.
[IsraelTimes] Egypt suffered a massive power outage that halted parts of the Cairo subway, took TV stations off the air and ground much of the country to a halt for several hours Thursday, as officials offered no clear explanation for how the country suddenly lost 50 percent of its power generation.
The blackout comes barely three months after Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, a former army chief, was elected president on promises to restore order after three years of turmoil following the 2011 uprising that toppled long-ruling autocrat Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... The government's inability to pay for enough imported fuel, debts to foreign oil companies, and old and poorly maintained equipment have all contributed to a months-long power crisis in which rolling blackouts have plunged entire neighborhoods into darkness for several hours a day.
The government had recently promised to end the blackouts by the end of the year, partially blaming the outages on saboteurs. Over the past week there had been a noticeable reduction in the power cuts, coinciding with slightly cooler temperatures after a scorching August.
But the mass outage on Friday was far more severe and wide-ranging than any of the previous cuts.
Egypt's Electricity Minister Mohammed Shaker described Thursday's blackout as a rare event caused by a technical failure which occurs every 15 years and said authorities hoped to restore power within hours. Earlier, officials claimed that the outage was a result of an experiment in redistributing electricity, saying a technical failure during the "maneuver" caused the blackout.
Two senior security and electricity officials told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the crisis erupted when one of the country's main power generating stations, el-Kuraymat in southern Cairo, went out of service either because of human error or technical failure. That led to the collapse of the rest of the main power stations, since Egypt's stations are all connected in one network.
The sudden power outage at 6:00 a.m. Cairo time (0300 GMT) caused paralysis in many areas across the country, including southern provinces. Widespread frustration led TV commentators to urge Egypt's prime minister to sack the electricity minister. Others blamed the event on a plot by Islamists in the ranks of the ministry, something officials ruled out.
As army chief, El-Sissi led the overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi last year amid massive protests against his yearlong rule. The protests against Morsi were in part fueled by the decline in living standards following the 2011 uprising as the economy cratered and security deteriorated.
The minister told Egypt's official news agency MENA that the country lost nearly half of its capacity Thursday and suffered a sudden drop from at least 20,000 MW to 11,000 MW. He stressed that the outage was not linked to a fuel shortage.
Shaker apologized to Egyptians, saying "we vow to exert all effort and God willing this will not happen again." He added that authorities were investigating the outage, saying anyone found to have been at fault would be held accountable.
Local TV networks showed metro stations packed with commuters after trains stopped due to the electricity cut. The front man for the city's metro system, Ahmed Abdel-Hadi, said the trains connecting Cairo's southern suburbs to downtown were halted.
Hours later he said trains had resumed normal operations. By sundown, authorities said they had restored 75 percent of the lost power.
Egypt's mobile service providers Mobinil and Vodafone said thousands of towers went out of service, disrupting communications across the country. Khaled Hegazi of Vodafone said 2,000 towers were out of service across the country, as 85 percent of the company's towers depend on electricity.
In southern Egypt, governors set up operation rooms to receive citizens' complaints and follow up on the crisis.
According to officials in the central and southern provinces of Assiut, Minya, and Sohag, hospitals suffered during the outages, which left dialysis machines, X-ray machines and operation rooms out of service.
After power was restored in many of the southern cities, the operation rooms were flooded with complaints from citizens that their electronic devices, such as refrigerators, washing machines and TV sets, were damaged, officials said.
All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.
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Israel and the US must support El Sissi and his efforts to keep Egypt a civil society. Get the Saudis to kick them down a Billion or so in the form of a long term loan. The Egyptian people must have faith in the new government or the results will be horrific with long term consequences for the middle east.
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"caused by a technical failure which occurs every 15 years"...(You'd have thought they could have planned for that.)
Is there a plague of frogs involved here, of just swamp gas refracting the light of Venus?
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the outage was a result of an experiment in redistributing electricity, saying a technical failure during the "maneuver" caused the blackout.
[BREITBART] A woman was beheaded in at a house in north London this afternoon, with witnesses reporting that a man then went "on the loose with a machete". It's that Ann Boleyn thing. They just can't help themselves...
Police have named the woman as 82-year-old Palmira Silva, adding that they found here dead at the scene and have jugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! a 25-year-old man in connection with the incident. What's that? You don't believe his name's not Cecil or Clive?
At a presser at 1730 BST Commander Simon Letchford said police were called at 1307 today after a man had been seen attacking a 'dog or cat', and later seen attacking a car. When police arrived on the scene they found a woman in a garden who was declared dead at the scene.
Police say the suspect, a 25 year old male is now in jug at a local hospital receiving treatment for wounds sustained during the course of his arrest. He will be assessed by psychiatrists, tested for drugs and questioned by Homicide and Major Crimes officers. One officer is reported to have broken his wrist during the arrest.
In the "fast moving and difficult situation" police evacuated residents from houses in the street and caused distractions to prevent him carrying out more attacks as he moved from residential garden to garden. He was eventually cornered and disabled in a house.
The officer conducting the presser re-assured the public that "these events on our streets are very unusual and not common", and "based on what we know, we do not believe this was a terror related incident"
DCI John Sandlin, who is leading the investigation, earlier said: "This was a highly visible attack in broad daylight on a residential street. I can understand why this may cause people concern, however we are confident that we are not looking for anyone else at this stage... Local officers and specialist detectives are at the scene and will remain there for many hours to come."
It has been reported that the killer targeted more than one person, with other victims attempting to flee the scene in a car. A silver-grey Ford can be seen inside the police-cordon area with visible damage, and a smashed window.
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One line of inquiry for detectives is now understood to be whether the man had been inspired by recent footage of the Isil beheadings of two US journalists in Syria.
Locals last night claimed the arrested man had converted to Islam last year.
However, detectives said they had ruled out terrorism as a motive for the killing.
[Of course not. He was volunteering on a community garden project, whacking those infidel weeds. What's your jihad?
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I thought he was pruning the Ribes, and without warning, he suddenly he just came after me with that bolo. I dropped me bottles and ran back to the lorrie as fast as I could. They're all nuts these days, these people.
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Ya know, if people weren't forbidden from defending themselves, this kind of thing would end much quicker.
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To be fair, 25 is the right age for paranoid schizophrenia to burst into bloom, and that is often preceded by religious mania. Given that Britain has becom an anti-Christian nation as a matter of policy, a conversion to Islam at that stage of the disease makes sense.
I'm not advocating for biologially crazy over Sudden Jihad Syndrome, but the possibility is real.
NEW YORK (TheStreet) Tesla Motors (TSLA_) announcement that it will be building its Gigafactory in Nevada highlights that economic reform is needed around the country, especially in California, where noted venture capitalist Tim Draper has proposed breaking up the state of California into six states.
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The wife's cousin (wealthy side of the family) bought her husband one of these Teslas. They are pricey ($140K) and the range before re-charging is required is not very good. The styling is nice. There is a huge display on the dash with great mapping/navigation capability. If you are a pedestrian, they suck. You can't hear them. You don't have a running chance. Hybrids make more sense at this stage of battery development. Why Nevada rather than Texas, New Mexico, or Arizona? Politics?
[BREITBART] Up to 70 veteran USA Today journalists, editors, and others were laid off Wednesday, and reports claim that the newly unemployed were "marched out by security" and within 15 minutes had their email accounts shut off.
The layoffs came as no surprise after the Gannett Company followed the lead of many other companies that have already separated and spun off their dying publishing business into separate companies. It was only a few weeks ago that Gannett did the same.
USA Today is Gannett's flagship publication and enjoys the highest circulation of any other American newspaper. Nonetheless, The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reports that "The publishing division has not had year-over-year revenue growth since 2006."
In the second quarter of this year, it posted a 37.5 percent decline in operating income, to $53.2 million from $85 million, compared with the same quarter a year ago.
Some of the paper's most senior and best-known writers were laid off, including the pop music critic Edna Gundersen, who announced her departure on Twitter. "Today is my last day at USA Today, after 30 years. I was laid off this morning, along with several great colleagues. Onward," she wrote.
The film critic Scott Bowles, who worked for USA Today for 17 years before he was let go, said, "I have been amazed by the names and reputations of some of the people on this list; these are bigwigs. Big names."
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I hope they kept the guy who makes the colorful charts on the corner of the page. It is the only thing I look at while I walk past without picking up the newspaper.
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Actually, it's a procedure taught in IT well over 25 years ago. It's bad enough that external threats exist to the systems today, but internal threats are just as important to prevent access as well. Meet Mr. Snowden.
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We had a simular occurance at an old employer of mine. Word got out that if you pick up your desk phone and there was no dial tone... You would be getting bad news. This was at a telco... Did they think nobody would figure it out?
I was out of town at the time... no clue what happened until I returned and there was an armed security guard at the door and I had to show ID. I had dial tone.
[Iran Press TV] Police have nabbed Book 'im, Mahmoud! dozens of protesters across the United States during demonstrations by fast-food workers demanding better pay and working conditions.
On Thursday, the fast-food workers staged protests in some 150 US cities in the latest attempt to escalate their efforts to get McDonald's, Burger King and other fast-food companies to pay their employees at least $15 an hour, which is nearly double the salary they receive now.
Some 400 protesters gathered at Times Square in New York City during morning rush hour. They carried placards reading "Stick together for $15 and union rights," and several demonstrators held a sit-in at a McDonald's restaurant. Police arrested at least 19 protesters.
About 86 protesters were arrested in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... , bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... , Las Vegas and Little Rock, Arkansas, organizers said. Another nine arrests were made in Boston.
Police accused protesters of disorderly conduct and violation of peaceful gathering laws.
The protests, which are part of the "Fight for $15" campaign, began in late 2012.
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...Was just reflecting upon this issue, and a thought occurred to me: I wonder if the '$15.00-an-hour' movement might be the beginning of a movement to get a guaranteed national minimum income....
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They could double the pay of every worker at McD's and it would not affect my purchases there at all.
It seems to me the better way to fight the evil giant corporation would be to pressure your governments to quit protecting them from competition - from lemonade stands to food trucks to home kitchens. Government claims it's all to protect you (and the children) from unsafe and unsanitary food vendors but I think they lie - have gotten sick from a Big Mac but never from a food truck.
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Already have minimum income, Mike, via the many welfare programs. And it's high enough that many people are unwilling to work for low wage jobs, which amount to a pay cut. I guess if you raised the minimum wage - without raising welfare benefits - some of those people would be motivated to work, but of course there would then be fewer jobs available, until inflation caught up, and then we'd have to raise the welfare benefits to compensate. The fundamental flaw in all of this is the refusal to see that a job is 'worth' what it is worth (supply and demand), not what someone declares it is worth. That can suck, but that's how it is.
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Supply-Demand. 10 million illegals with low skills depressed the native population's ability not only to get the jobs, but any need to naturally increase wages. These lemmings don't grasp that 10 million future yellow dog Donk voters are more important than a real wage to the socialists.
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My wife used to work at McD's. A while ago. When the cashier had to know what each thing cost and be able to accurately enter that price into the register. And to make correct change without the machine calculating it. And to balance the cash drawer at the end of her shift.
The movie 'Idiocracy' is a documentary.
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I'm all for the kids at Mickey D's getting $15 an hour. On one condition --
-- that all the interns at the Ford Foundation and all the other NGOs in DC and New York get $15 an hour as well.
If it's good enough for McDonalds, it's good enough for the Open Society folks...
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The ironic thing is they are pricing themselves out of a job. It becomes more cost efficient to just buy a robot. Cheaper on benefits and unemployment insurance too.
I have thought that this was the beginning of the new robotic/industrial age. People grew violent and held demonstrations the first time the industrial revolution started too.
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There is a fast food chain in Kansas City called Winsteads. It is towards the top of city things I miss list.
This day of protest has been in the works for a while now, and was supposed to be some great push. Not very impressive, and I'm sure the good folks blocking morning rush at Times Square made an impression.
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I can think of alot of people who have invested alot more sweat and money in their training and education that don't nail down $15/hr.
My first jobs as a construction worker didn't pay $15/hr, what makes these toads think they are worth $7.25/hr much less 15?
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Double the wage and the price of burgers and everything else at MickeyDs will increase to cover this new cost. If this occurs across the board, these people who are pushing for $15/hr will find that they can't afford to eat out anymore--even at low-priced, fast food joints. The concept will be destroyed and another American icon gets destroyed due to no-nothing idiots meddling in the free-market.
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Shipman, Whataburger is frequently known in Texas (it's home) as Waitaburger.
As long as you're not in a hurry, it's good. Made to order.
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Worth waiting for Ed. My dad took took me to one in Pensacola about 45 years ago as they began inching east along I-10. The visit was a revelation that cured me of My childish burger hang ups.
When I visit Whataburger, I always park and go inside, their by saving gas enough to pay for Jalapeano on both burgers.
I have high school stories, many that revolve around Whataburger, forged hall passes, 33 minutes, 3/4 mile and a rat motored Monte Carlo.
[Stars and Stripes] NATO must help allies in the east bolster first-line defenses to counter any aggression from Russia, whose unconventional tactics in Ukraine could pose special challenges if deployed on alliance turf, Gen. Philip Breedlove, NATOs top military commander, said Thursday.
Before the incursion of what Western officials say are regular Russian troops into Ukraine, Moscow stirred unrest in other ways during the early stages of the crisis, Breedlove said during an Atlantic Council event that coincided with the start of NATOs two-day summit in Wales.
Russias utilization of troops without national uniforms the so-called little green men and perhaps the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have ever seen in the history of information warfare were part of the first Russian push in Ukraine, Breedlove said.
NATO members, especially the Baltic states that border Russia, must take into account such tactics as allies prepare for future threats, he said. That means steps should be taken to help build the capacity of other arms of government, such as interior ministries and police forces, to counter unconventional attacks, including propaganda campaigns, cyberassaults or homegrown separatist militias.
What we see in Russia now, in this hybrid approach to war, is to use all the tools they have ... to stir up problems they can then begin to exploit through their military tool, said Breedlove, NATOs supreme allied commander.
By building up pre-crisis capabilities to deal with such tactics, nations will be better able to assign responsibility to an aggressor nation, which is key to triggering NATO involvement in a crisis, Breedlove said.
[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Health authorities are gearing up to start vaccination campaigns in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) following emergence of two new polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... cases in the Khyber Agency and one in South Wazoo Agency (SWA) on Wednesday.
The National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad, confirmed that three more unvaccinated children have tested positive for polio. The three include six-month-old Munsif, son of Mohammad Wazir of village Balulkhel in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency; 18-month-old Bilal, son of Noor Salim of village Akhun Talab in Bara tehsil, Khyber Agency; and 18-month-old Nazia, daughter of Musa Khan of village Kazha Panga in Birmal tehsil of South Waziristan Agency.
Fata has recorded 89 cases of the nationwide 122 in 2014 so far and firmly stands in the way of global polio eradication effort. The World Health Organisation says that North, South and Khyber agencies are still polio endemic where lack of immunisation has led to outbreaks.
North Waziristan Agency, where Taliban banned polio vaccination in June 2012, has 61 cases, Khyber Agency 17 cases, and South Waziristan Agency eight.
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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
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