[MIAMIHERALD] Peruvian prison officials are denying a claim that convicted killer Joran van der Sloot was stabbed in the highlands prison where he was recently transferred.
A prisons official said Monday that Van der Sloot has two superficial wounds on his abdomen that were probably self-inflicted. The official, who was not authorized to talk to the press and spoke on condition of anonymity, said he has been held in isolation from other prisoners in the Challapalca prison.
The Peruvian woman whom Van der Sloot married in June told news hounds Sunday that he had been stabbed but presented no evidence. His attorney, Maximo Altez, made the same claim Monday.
Van der Sloot, in prison in Peru, remains the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of the U.S. teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba.
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Peruvian prison officials are denying a claim that convicted killer Joran van der Sloot was stabbed in the highlands prison
"no, actually it was in the groinal area"
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[FOXNEWS] A father in India is facing murder charges after he invited his daughter's alleged rapist to dinner and then tortured and killed the man, authorities say. "Have some more gnocci!"
"Aaaiiieee!"
The 36-year-old father, who has not been identified, reportedly burned the 45-year-old man's genitals with heated tongs and strangled him Friday, The Indian Express reported. The incident occurred in Delhi's Khajuri Khas area.
Not in India. Don't try and apply American standards to a third world country. In India you are guilty until you prove your innocence.
Having said that, all the father/daughter had to do was file a molestation case against the perp, he would have been arrested and his life turned inside out. And court cases in India can drag on for years.
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Chestnuts roasting on an open fire,
Angry Dad nipping on your nose,
You'll try running for the water hose,
Raping his daughter has put you in these throws,
Where you end up only God knows.
--- A Zenobia Floger6220 I ain't, but I was inspired by Bates Motel Poetry Society.
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Not in India. Don't try and apply American standards to a third world country. In India you are guilty until you prove your innocence.
AFAIK and India's legal code is based on the British one so it is "innocent until proven guilty". I agree that notion could be largely theorical in rural India. But I was noyt talking to this man but to Rob Crawford an American who knows about "innocent until proven guilty" and about pregnant girls in aresa whre being pregnat out of wedlock can get you cast away or even being killed telling they have been raped.
Nov 3 (Reuters) - Even as government officials express confidence that researchers know the key facts about Ebola, many questions crucial to preventing an outbreak in the United States remain unanswered, scientists told a workshop at the National Academy's Institute of Medicine in Washington on Monday.
Virtually all the unknowns have practical consequences, participants emphasized...penetration through intact skin has not been definitively ruled out, said hemorrhagic-fever expert Thomas Ksiarek of the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), who co-led a session on Ebola's transmission routes.
"Does bleach or hand sanitizer," which people in West Africa are using to protect themselves from Ebola, "make the skin more susceptible" to being penetrated by the virus?, Peters wondered. "It's a question that has to be asked."
...[The question of whether Ebola can be spread by someone without symptoms, that is,]"subclinical transmission" remains very much open, said Dr. Andrew Pavia, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Utah.
Nor do experts know whether the infectious dose of virus depends on how it enters the body, Pavia said.
Also unknown is whether the time between exposure to Ebola and the appearance of symptoms depends on which bodily fluids someone contacted...
...people are not thought to be infectious until they run a fever of 100.4 F. (38 C). But at what temperature patients start shedding virus is not definitively known, said Dr. Michael Hodgson, chief medical officer of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
[What cleanup methods are most effective is not known, along with whether or not Ebola virus can survive in sewers.]
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Well, if we could figger out man-made global climate change, give us a few million-dollar grants, and we'll settle the science on Ebola.
A couple of months ago, I read how bacteria and virus 'lie low' until they reach a critical mass, and then they attack. Like the immune system ignores a few little viruses.
Then somehow, like fire ants, the bugs communicate the attack. Sounds like science fiction? But the CDC knows all about it!
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[CBSNEWS] Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... 's military says it will hand over power to a transitional government under a leader chosen by all sectors of society, to fill the power vacuum since long-time president Blaise Compaore resigned and fled.
Lt. Col. Isaac Yacouba Zida met with diplomats Monday and announced the country will be led by "a transitional body within the constitutional framework."
Ouagadougou, the capital, was calm and soldiers were off the streets Monday following days of unrest. Demonstrators set the legislature ablaze Thursday to prevent a vote to allow Compaore to seek another term of office. Compaore had been in power 27 years. On Sunday, protesters demanded the military cede power after soldiers named Zida head of a transitional government.
The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... and African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... have condemned the military's power grab.
Gunfire erupted outside the headquarters of state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
on Sunday as an opposition politician tried to announce she was in control of the West African country.
At least one person was killed in the melee, according to witnesses who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
The developments underscored the uncertainty about who was in charge of Burkina Faso after president Blaise Compaore resigned Friday after 27 years in power and fled with his family to Ivory Coast amid violent protests seeking his ouster.
About 1,000 people had gathered Sunday afternoon at the Place de Nation in Burkina Faso's capital to demand a civilian and democratic transition a day after the military announced that a lieutenant colonel would serve as interim leader until elections could be held.
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By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
As results of the presidential and parliamentary elections in Donetsk and Lugansk are digested worldwide, both sides in this six month old conflict prepare and assess forces available for war, according to Russian and English language news accounts.
Taunting Ukrainian politicians and supporters, a top official of the Donetsk Central Election Commission (CEC), Vladislav Gordeyev -- holding a document presumably certifying election results -- said in a press conference: "The elections were legitimate and went without essential violations which could have influenced the results. Now, we have a legitimate government, Donbas is no longer part of Ukraine whether someone likes it or not."
Ukrainian officials, as well as American officials and other European officials have decried the November 2nd election as illegal under the September Ceasefire, which mandated elections for "Special Status" for the two republics of the Donbas area, Lugansk and Donetsk.
Part of that agreement also said that the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada must pass a law outlining the conditions for special status, which it did only a week after the signing of the Minsk agreement.
But Donetsk and Lugansk officials have denounced the new law, saying that the special status law was not specific to their region and was limited to three years, and was therefore invalid.
To date only the Russian Federation has recognized the legitimacy of the vote, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov urging both Ukraina and the European Union to do the same. A good deal of deception has been fostered by Russian press sympathetic to the Donbas rebels with one Russian news outlet, according to a Euro Maindan press center website, saying that an Organization For Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) observer had remarked while near a polling station in Donetsk city that he saw no election violations.
According to pro Ukrainian press, no OSCE observers have been sent to Donetsk or elsewhere, only truce monitoring groups. So far, no announcement has been posted to the European Parliament website concerning anything about the Donetsk and Lugansk elections.
Election Results
According to an English language Russian Today website, acting prime minister of Donetsk, Alexei Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky of Lugansk have won the presidency of their respective countries by wide margins, and concomitantly, their associated political organizations have won big as well.
According to a CEC official, Roman Lyagin, Zakharchenko gained 765,340 votes, while Aleksandr Kofman got 111,024 votes, and Yury Sivokonenko received 93,280.
Zakharchenko's Donetsk Republic Party gained 662,725 votes, while the Svobodniy Donbass Party gained 306,892 votes.
In Lugansk, Plotnitsky's Peace to Lugansk Region party received 69.42 percent of votes, while the Lugansk Economic Union gained 22 percent.
Troop Movements in Novorossiya
The past three days have been nervous ones for the Ukrainian military stationed at or near the line of contact. Repeated charges by the European Maidan press have been that the Russians have been sending large number of troops to both Lugansk and Donetsk cities, a charge which has turned out to be true.
However, the Russian troops have been sent west to participate in parades observing "Russian March", an annual protest by Russian nationalist political groups. As pro Russian military blogger and journalist Boris Rozhin has stated, almost no one attends those celebrations or parades.
Pro Ukrainian military blogger Roman Burko claims that Russian troops are filtering into both Lugansk and Donetsk, including localities sch as Makeevka (near Donetsk city), Snezhnoye , and Antratsyt (between Lugansk and Donetsk oblast).
Burko also claims that Russian rocket artillery units have been observed entering Donetsk city, including the 300mm BM-30 Smerch MRL. Burko also said that Ukrainian military units have intercepted radio "surprise operability checks" between Donbas rebel units, as well as presumably, Russian tactical units. Such communications checks are in fact very common among nearly every military organization on the planet. Such checks are means to test and time communications between headquarter units and their subordinate units in the event of attack.
A subsequent report by Burko said that another unit comprising the 240mm BM-27 "Urugan" rocket artillery launcher was seen in Gorlovka, which is about 20 kilometers northeast of Donetsk city.
Burko also identified four strategic directions at which Donbas militias and Russian troops have been massing, and has offered a possible scenario for an attack on Ukrainian forces.
Southwest Direction
Group A (40 kilometers northeast of Mariupol): Forces deployed along the line Olenivka-Dokuchajevsk-Volnovakha. According to Burko, this group's main mission is to cut off supply lines of Ukrainian forces deployed or operating near Starohnativka, then, as a subsidiary operation, link up with Groups B and C near Volnovakha further west and then attack to the northeast along the Highway T0509. Eventually the combined group will link up with Group E to encircle Ukrainian forces operating near Kostiantynivka and Novomykhailivka, which are about 18 kilometers southwest of Volnovakha.
Group B: Forces deployed along the line Komsomolske-Starohnativka-Donskoye. This group is supposed to split Ukrainian forces at Volnovakha before linking up with Groups A and C.
Group C: Forces deployed along with line Telmanove-Hranytne-Donskoye. This group is tasked with supporting Group B as it drives west, and then supporting the attack west of Volnovakha.
Group D: (Ten kilometers northeast of Mariupol) Forces deployed along with line Krasnoarmiiske-Talakivka-Volodarske-Manhush. According to Burko, this group is supposed to encircle Mariupol with a single arm from the northeast and gain control of Highway E58, the main and southernmost highway between Mariupol and the Russian border.
Group E: The northernmost group of the southwest direction deployed along with line Donetsk-Marinka-Kurahove. This group is tasked with supporting the flank of Group A as it advances west towards Kostiantynivka and Novomykhailivka.
Northwest Direction
Group F: (In Donetsk city proper) Deployed along the line Spartak-Avdiivka-Ocheretyne. This group's task to to take the Donetsk airport. As simple as it sounds, this group's start position is astride two localities, Sparktak and Avdeevka which either have Ukrainian troops deployed or are used as a marshaling point for Ukrainian forces defending the airport.
Groups G1, G2 and H: (Northeast of Donetsk city) G1 deployed along the line Gorlovka-Svotlodarsk-Artemivsk. G2 deployed along the line Pervomaisk-Popasna-Artemivsk. H deployed along the line Gorlovka-Dzerzhynsk-Kostiantynovka. The main task for this group is to cut off supply lines for Ukrainian forces at Debaltsevo, and prepare for a subsequent operation towards Kramatorsk and Slovyansk, further north.
North Direction
Group I: (West of Schastye) Forces deployed along the line Bryanka-Pervomaisk-Lysychansk. This group is supposed to support an attack on Schastye which is just ten kilometers northwest of Lugansk city, and a position the Ukrainian force have held since late August. Since that time, Donbas rebels have made repeated attempts to either take the city off the march, or to at least surround the city. The operation for the Donbas rebels is hard probably because Schastye is behind the Northern Donetskaya River line. It is likely that rebel forces do not have sufficient modern combat engineering equipment, let alone training to force a river crossing. The hard winter in southern Ukraina, which has in the past been known to freeze rivers to such an extent they can support armor vehicles, could change all that.
Northeast Direction
Group deployed near Schastye: As indicated above, this group is tasked with eliminating the Ukrainian presence at the river crossing at Schastye.
This above description, according to Burko, was based on the speculation that Donbas rebel troops would attack directly after the conclusion of the election, or November 3rd.
According to Ukrainian military journalist Dmitry Tymchuk, Donbas rebels boast a total of 27,000 effectives, among them 15,000 Russian mercenaries and volunteers, and 12,000 rebels.
Heavy equipment the Donbas rebels have deployed, according to Tymchuk, includes 115 main battle tanks, 280 armored vehicles, 100 pieces of artillery, including tube howitzers and rocket artillery, and 500 trucks and tractors.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
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Meanwhile, as per WORLD MILITARY FORUM the leader of the pro-Ukraine DNIEPER-1 Battalion = Militia is repor warning that Russia = Russian Federation itself is not safe or immune from tit-for-tat terror strikes inside its sovereign territory as launched agz Russia by his faction.
[IRISHTIMES] Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine have named a leader of their breakaway republic after a weekend election which was denounced by Kiev and the West and further deepened a standoff with Russia over the future of the state.
Organisers of the vote today said that Alexander Zakharchenko, a 38-year-old former electrician, had easily won election as head of the "Donetsk People's Republic", an entity proclaimed by armed rebels in the days after they seized key buildings in cities of Ukraine's Russian-speaking east last April.
The unsanctioned vote, which Kiev says was encouraged by Russia, could create a new conflict and further threaten the territorial unity of Ukraine, which lost control of its Crimean peninsula in March when it was annexed by Russia.
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Just one more reason to sell the USS Kitty Hawk to Japan. I'm sure they'd be able to develop a carrier battle group rather quickly - probably faster than China.
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Just one more reason to sell the USS Kitty Hawk to Japan.
Especially if they promise to name it the IJN Hello Kitty.
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Nice to keep our shipyards in business though. Perhaps if we've got a carrier almost done we could sell it to Japan and use the cash to replace it for our own fleet. They can then copy the plans.
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"Budget restrictions ... ... will mean not a single Aircraft Carrier will be deployed to East Asia in the coming year".
FEWER NUMBERS IN FLEET CUTBACKS, + FEWER DEPLOYMENTS OVERSEAS FROM CONUS.
Advantage to RISING CHINA [+ Russia + Iran, etc.], + NUCLEAR ISLAM INCLUD GLOBAL [Nuclear?] JIHAD.
History says Weakness increases the likelihood of MilPol Confrontation + ultimately War, NOT "PEACE", + REGARDLESS OF THE MERITS.
The good news for Americans + Amerika is they may look forward to MASSIVE BUDGET, DEFICIT-BUSTING
GOVT. SPENDING = "QE(S?)/BUDGET STIMULUS 2015" TO SAVE THE DAY???
IMO just another reason why the DemoLeft + aligned Special Interests are avoiding talking about the Year 2015 = The-Year-that-must-Not-be-Named/Mentioned.
[ARABNEWS] Oil prices fell on Monday, hit by a strengthening dollar as dealers digested global manufacturing data for clues about demand growth, analysts said.Brent North Sea crude for delivery in December slid 42 cents to stand at $85.44 a barrel in late London deals.
US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for December lost 43 cents to $80.11 a barrel compared with Friday's closing level.
Crude oil futures had risen slightly earlier in the day.
"The focus right now is on the manufacturing data.... We are looking for signs of industrial growth, which will in turn mean greater crude demand," Daniel Ang, investment analyst at Phillip Futures brokers said.
The US manufacturing sector picked up speed in October after a dull September, with companies reporting rising orders and more job creation, but a significant slowdown in price gains, according to data released on Monday.
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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.
[FOXNEWS] A father in India is facing murder charges after he invited his daughter's alleged rapist to dinner and then tortured and killed the man, authorities say.
