[THEGUARDIAN] Two men in rural South Africa are suspected of killing a farmworker by throwing oranges at him.
Citing witness accounts, police lieutenant-colonel Moatshe Ngoepe said the suspects had allegedly argued with the man, then collected oranges and begun hurling them at him.
"They started pelting the dear departed with all those loose oranges, killing him on the spot," Ngoepe said. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... he cautioned that an investigation was still under way and aspects of a case he described as complicated still had to be verified.
The man was declared dead at the scene and had "no visible injury", suggesting he might have suffered blunt trauma, according to Ngoepe. He did not comment on the cause of the argument that led to the assault. Police and prosecutors are awaiting the results of a postmortem examination.
The suspects were detained on Tuesday and later released pending formal charges, which could include murder. The assault happened near Tzaneen, a town in Limpopo province in northern South Africa.
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Interesting, the posting order, as I read the very next article.
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I hope you don't think I am dissolute
To say that I'm nuts about titty-fruit.
In sol or in sombra,
For ripe fruta bomba
I never accept any substitute!
[FREEP] A Virginia man with the last name Stoner is facing drug charges after police found more than $10,000 worth of marijuana plants at his home.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office says 42-year-old Paul Scott Stoner of Unionville is charged with growing marijuana and having a firearm while in possession of more than a pound of marijuana.
Media outlets report that the charges stem from an ongoing investigation related to the alleged sale of marijuana to children in Orange County. Further charges are pending.
Authorities say they acted on a tip that Stoner was selling to children and during the search last Thursday seized marijuana, marijuana plants, drug paraphernalia, prescription drugs, needles, spoons and guns.
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Those in favor of medical and recreational legalization skew both male and millenial. Males are in support of recreational marijuana in small quantities 63% to 33%, while women support it 51% vs. 44%. People ages 18 to 29 support legalization 83% to 14%, but voters over 65 oppose it, 57% to 38%. Though weed is not legal in New York state, New Yorkers admitted to using the substance; 46% say they have partook, and 51% say they haven’t. Of New Yorkers ages 18 to 29, 55% say they’ve smoked marijuana, while 69% of those over 65 say they have not.
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The narco trade has become the entrepreneurial fabric of urban America. Legalization simply allows the gov't to harvest sales taxes and licensing fees on storefront businesses.
Two things make the world go around, and the other one is money.
~ anon
[ABC7CHICAGO] Antonio Smith, 9, was fatally shot in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood, his family told Eyewitness News Wednesday night.
The victim's relatives made a plea to the shooter, who remains on the lam on Wednesday night.
"He was just a child, just a baby, still had a whole life ahead of him. And like, why? Just a child," said Kenya Eggleston, victim's cousin.
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However, the kid doesn't count in motivating the base to the November election. Non-person, down the Permanent Party Propaganda Machine's memory hole.
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"At first I didn't know if they were really shots or not. I just heard pop, pop, pop, pop, pow. So I just kept doing what I was doing," said Dave West, neighbor.
That says all I need to know about this "neighborhood." When neighbors don't even flench at 4-5 gunshots with kids around.....
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Smith was shot multiple times in the chest
This was deliberate and sounds like a scene from Breaking Bad.
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When neighbors don't even flench at 4-5 gunshots
[THEMOSCOWTIMES] Russia is demanding that Bulgaria try harder to prevent vandalism of Soviet monuments, after yet another monument to Soviet troops in Sofia was spray-painted, ITAR-Tass reported.
The Russian Embassy in Bulgaria has issued a note demanding that its former Soviet-era ally clean up the monument in Sofia's Lozenets district, identify and punish those responsible, and take "exhaustive measures" to prevent similar attacks in the future, the news agency reported Monday.
The monument was spray-painted on the eve of the Bulgarian Socialist Party's celebration of its 123rd anniversary, the Sofia-based Novinite news agency reported.
The vandalism was the latest in a series of similar recent incidents in Bulgaria — each drawing angry criticism from Moscow.
Early this year, unknown artists painted another monument to Soviet troops in Sofia in the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
In August last year, a Soviet army monument in Sofia was painted pink in an "artistic apology" for Bulgaria's support of Soviet troops who suppressed Czechoslovakia's Prague Spring revolt against Moscow-based communist rulers.
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But.... but... the Russians are capitalists now! They're not Soviets, Really! It's Barack who's the Soviet with his high tax rates! And friendship with the Pro-Tranny-rights EU!
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We will see when the O gets his "Order of Lenin" medal from Putin for bringing America to its knees.
The Order of Lenin (Russian: Орден Ленина, Orden Lenina), named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was the highest decoration bestowed by the Soviet Union. The order was awarded to:
Civilians for outstanding services rendered to the State,
Members of the armed forces for exemplary service,
Those who promoted friendship and cooperation between peoples and in strengthening peace
Those with meritorious services to the Soviet state and society
From 1944 to 1957, before the institution of specific length of service medals, the Order of Lenin was also used to reward 25 years of conspicuous military service.
Those who were awarded the titles "Hero of the Soviet Union" and "Hero of Socialist Labour" were also given the order as part of the award. It was also bestowed on cities, companies, factories, regions, military units and ships. Corporate entities, factories, various educational institutions and military units who received the said Order applied the full name of the order into their official titles.
The order was established by the Central Executive Committee on April 6, 1930.
[KOMONEWS] Police say they've sent a 34-year-old woman to the hospital for a mental evaluation after she made a naked flagpole climb on the roof of a downtown Portland office building.
Police said she stripped about midnight Wednesday, hauled down the flag and then wrapped herself in it, brandishing a lighter and fire extinguisher.
Then, officers said, she began throwing construction glue from the building, listed as having 12 floors. Several vehicles were damaged.
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In an era without television and radio, people often looked for means of entertainment outside of the home. The Roaring Twenties saw an odd but not new spectacle of “flagpole sitting”. Pole sitting is the act of sitting on a pole, typically a flagpole, for as long as possible. Sometimes a small platform is placed at the top of the pole but often the pole sitter rests upon the pole unassisted.
Pole-sitting is related to the ancient discipline of Stylitism, or column-sitting. Famous column-sitters include St Simeon Stylites the Elder (c. 388-459) of Antioch (now Turkey) who sat on a column for 30 years. Stylitism was often a religious or meditative experience for the sitters.Link
She sez she's meditating and refuses to watch teevee. She must be crazy. Take her away Sidney.
[FT] Neanderthals coexisted with early modern humans in Europe for up to 5,400 years, according to researchers from Oxford university who used new techniques to pinpoint when the early cousins of Homo sapiens became extinct.
Scientists used radiocarbon dating evidence for 200 bone, charcoal and shell samples from 40 European archaeological sites to show that the two human groups overlapped for a significant period of time.
They also concluded that Neanderthals disappeared gradually at different times in different locations, rather than undergoing rapid extinction.
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I always wondered where the stories about Trolls came from. I also read that trolls were cannibalistic. And that Neanderthals were Estrus breeders and had only rudimentary "families". Whereas Humans bred all year round, while Neanderthals only bred in season, and that males and females often lived apart for much of the year.
But you can't always trust what you hear or read. And "science" is always saying something and we know that science said the world was flat for the longest time. There is a lot of science that is PC too. LIFE magazine did a series on SLAVE TRADE, and you can't find it in the stacks at the Library because someone took a razor blade and removed all that stuff from Reference.
34,000 years ago is a long time ago. Good luck with the neanderthals. Maybe that explains why your mother has hair on her back?
No?
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The website says Andre "suffered from acromegaly, a disease that results in an over abundance of growth hormones". But I gotta wonder if what he really had was an overabundance of Neanderthal DNA.
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Well of course they co-existed! That did you think---that Neanderthals survived for 300000 years and then went spontaneously extinct just in time to make place for us?
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then went spontaneously extinct just in time to make place for us?
i understand that the previous hypothesis was that we, in our evil, speciestic way, wiped them out to the last child upon first meeting, g(r)omgoru. Though I recall some discussion of the possibility that H. sap's need for 2,000 cal/day made survival easier for us than H. neanderthalis' need for 5,000 or 10,000.
(Reuters) - Two American aid workers who just weeks ago were gravely ill with Ebola they contracted in Liberia now pose no health risk to the public after being cleared of the virus and released from an Atlanta hospital, one of their doctors said on Thursday.
Dr. Kent Brantly and [Mrs.] Nancy Writebol, who both contracted the deadly virus while working for Christian organizations, were discharged after blood tests showed no evidence of the virus and eased symptoms [??], said Dr. Bruce Ribner, medical director of the infectious disease unit at Emory University Hospital.
They are likely to make a complete recovery from the disease that has killed 1,350 people in West Africa, Ribner said.
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Appears that he is making his move Ebbom. Knocking down a few Ukrainian fighter jets just to ensure air superiority. The "relief" convoy may be his Division trains pushed forward. Sort of a ground 'PREPO'. I'm still betting on an October surprise.
I'd bet Foggy Bottom and the UN both have their strongly worded condemnations already queued up.
Pro Russian militia fighting in a region south of Lugansk have claimed three more Ukrainian military aircraft shot down Thursday, according to the pro Russian news website Voice of Sevastopol.
Two of the aircraft are Mi24 attack helicopters, downed near the junction of Ukrainian highway E40 and H21, near Georgievka. Much of the area where the birds went down is contested between Ukrainian police battalions and pro Russian militias.
A militia air defense unit southeast of Lugansk claims it shot down a fixed wing aircraft in the vicinity of Novosvetlovka. The report failed to identify the type of aircraft, but did note the pilot ejected. Militia units are searching to find the pilot.
The three downed aircraft brings the total of downed Ukrainian military aircraft to six this week. Militia units have downed three other ground interdiction airframes, so it is likely the aircraft shot down in Novosvetlovka is the same type.
Intense fighting south of Lugansk continues as Ukrainian police units surrounded by fire are unable to breakout. Reports hint that militia gunners are trying hard to eliminate Ukrainian heavy equipment in a bid to force surrenders.
Further southwest, Ilovaisk is still 75 percent under pro Russian militia control. Reports are that Ukrainian police units attempted to take the town center by a coup de main, but were driven back. Videos posted on the Colonel Cassad blog show Ukrainian heavy armor abandoned in the streets of Ilovaisk even though the armor appeared to have suffered only light damage.
Pro Russian militias claimed to have destroyed nearly all the armor of the Ukrainian 17th Tank Brigade. Elements of the Ukrainian 93rd Brigade along with three rifle companies from the Ukrainian 51st Brigade and units from the "Donbass" police battalion remain in place in or near Ilovaisk, unable to move.
A separate police battalion, "Shahtyorsk" was engaged in fighting in Ilovaisk all night, and managed to capture part of the city. Pro Russian militia now report that "Shahtyorsk" is surrounded. It has been reported that nine Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the fighting and 30 wounded.
Meanwhile, about 20 kilometers due east of Ilovaisk in the area of Petrovskoye, Ukrainian military units are being pinned in place by militia artillery fire. A firefight was also reported in the village of Blagodatnya west of that zone.
Artillery fire continues to hit Donetsk as Ukrainian forces appear to be filtering into the city. A three man artillery spotter team was detained near Makeyevka, but one managed to escape.
A separate Ukrainian artillery spotting unit was eliminated in Shcherbakov near downtown Donetsk in the Voroshilov district. Another spotting unit was located near the railway station.
Artillery hits were recorded in the Petrovsky district and on the Yasinovka Coking plant. Artillery strikes in Makeyevka have claimed the lives of 10 civilians. The toll in wounded was not provided.
[Iran Press TV] Latest reports say fresh shelling by Ukrainian government forces in the troubled eastern city of Donetsk has killed at least two people and injured more others.
Donetsk officials said on Thursday that the civilians died when artillery shells hit Mosipo in the suburb of the restive city.
A number of homes and infrastructure have been also reportedly damaged in the troubled region.
Pro-Russia forces in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic said the artillery was fired by a diversionary group of Ukrainian forces.
Elsewhere in the nearby Lugansk region, several residential areas, a church and a factory were also struck.
Local authorities said on Wednesday that festivities in and around Donetsk had killed 43 civilians in the past 24 hours.
In a separate development, the first several trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Ukrainian civilians reportedly crossed the Russian border and arrived at the border crossing in restive eastern region of Lugansk.
Ukrainian border guards are checking the Russian humanitarian aid convoy for the residents of Ukraine's eastern regions.
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[Iran Press TV] Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has nominated Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to replace Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... as the country's next prime minister.
President-elect Erdogan, who won Turkey's presidential election on August 10, chaired a three-hour meeting of the ruling party's Central Executive Board (MYK) on Thursday to decide on the country's next premier.
Before introducing Davutoglu's name as the next prime minister, Erdogan said they had held several meetings before taking the final decision.
"I know it very well that we have many fellows who can take this important position. All the names, which were spoken out during this process, are very important for us. The unity of this movement is above everything," Erdogan said.
"Our friend, who will be the chairmanship candidate, is Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. Maybe it is early to announce (the candidate), but he will also be our next prime minister�. Mr. Davutoglu has shown great sensitivity in compassionate diplomacy and he will surely continue in that direction," the president-elect added.
Following the announcement, Davutoglu thanked Erdogan, and MYK and AKP members for the decision.
Turkey's Davutoglu expected to be a docile prime minister _ with Erdogan calling the shots
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, hand-picked by president-elect Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... to succeed him as prime minister, is expected to accept a largely backseat role as his boss strives to make his new job the most powerful position in the land.
But Davutoglu is known to be ambitious — and Turkey has seen cases in the past where presidents have tried and failed to control their prime ministers.
Erdogan, who nominated Davutoglu Thursday to be premier, is counting that the 55-year-old continue to be the staunch loyalist he proved himself to be during Erdogan's long tenure as premier. While he has a patchy foreign policy record, Davutoglu also commands respect within the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, and is seen as a politician who can steer the party to another victory in elections next year.
A former professor of international relations, Davutoglu has led Turkey's foreign policy since 2003 both as foreign minister and as Erdogan's chief adviser. He is expected to be confirmed as the AKP's chairman at a party congress next week, before being appointed by Erdogan to form a government early next month.
More details on that patchy foreign policy record at the link.
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Erdogan is the typical Putin, Davu is the lapdog.
[ARABNEWS] About 10,000 people have fled their homes in northeast India as violence surged over a border dispute that has left some 15 people dead, officials said Thursday.
Residents of remote Assam have sought shelter in makeshift camps set up by the state government after gunnies from neighboring Nagaland launched attacks from across the border, a top official said.
"About 10,000 people were rendered homeless after unidentified gunnies from the Nagaland side attacked Assam villagers and set ablaze hundreds of houses forcing them to flee," Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi told news hounds in Assam's main city of Guwahati.
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[FREEP] Might Microsoft be ready to reveal the latest version of its Windows operating system? Sorry. No urge to look at it.
The Verge reports Microsoft is planning an event Sept. 30, where it will announce Windows 9. The report cites "sources familiar with Microsoft's plans." Having bought a couple or three new machines in the past year or so, I regard Windows as a virus.
The event will showcase several upgrades to the user interface, says the report, and may even include Cortana, Microsoft's voice assistant. I actually tried to get used to Windows 8.1, mainly because I couldn't figure how to install Linux on it. It was piggishly slow on a machine that has 8gb of memory and four processors. I have no idea how habitual Windows users get by with only one workspace.
The new Windows OS would be the first launch under Satya Nadella, who took over as CEO of Microsoft earlier this year. Nadella has focused on shifting Microsoft toward a strategy aimed at the mobile and cloud space. The way they've got the BIOS... errr... UEFI locked down now, you have to go in through Windows to boot into it. Turn off CMS and disable "Safe Boot." Then you can boot from DVD, install Xubuntu, install all sorts of programs for free that you'd have to pay for under Window$, have as many workspaces as you please--I use four of them--and have your machine run as smoothly as it's capable of running.
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They were told for over a decade to make something for users rather than the central planners and programmers. Tablets are taking that market and will evolve while the dinosaur will continue to push the one (really really big) size fits all strategy.
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I still build my own systems. I need Windos for gamin. I knew better than use a .0 Miscrosoft OS release, so I waited until 8.1. I ended up reformatting the MS partition, and reverting back to Win7-64.
The 9.0 release is actually what would have been 8.2. MS is just chaining the label to 9.0 to get rid of the Win8 stigma. Win8 is a failed release, just like Vista. And Just like WIn7 wasn't all that different from Vista, mainly more stable and a lot of the crap removed, so 9.0 will basically be Win 8 with even more of the deign mistakes removed ("metro" on the desktop was a huge error), and better stability and functionality. Its actually a ".2" release, so if you've been waiting to go to Win8, wait until after the first major update to Win9. That should be relatively usable and stable, at least as far as MS Windows goes.
I dual boot BSD, and have a Mac mini for most day to day junk. Win is for gaming only.
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At #6 and your confessed tech acumen clearly confirms my long-held suspicion. You have a TROJAN SPIRIT parked behind your garage and streaming SIPR to your man cave. Don't the neighbors bitc* about the generator noise ?
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Seems Windows is following the Star Trek Movie model - every other version sucks wind. ME - sucks (however 2K (NT) was ok), XP - good, Vista - sucks, 7 - good, 8 - sucks, 9 - ??.
I also build my own (wish there was a way to build your own laptop)... Lets face it most users are not tech savvy. Mrs. Fool uses her laptop for Facebook, Email, and Skype and occasional shopping at Costco or Amazon - that's it. Linux would not be a good fit for her. Yeah-yeah I know Ubuntu makes it easy and all that but she needs something which 'just works' (and doesn't have to work too hard). She would have a hard time editing obscure files in /etc/sysconfig to change some even more obscure configuration parameters never mind the command line. (and besides it came with the computer). I use both fairly well but then it's my job to know both.
It's just a tool.
Kind of like cameras - you have your low end point-and-shoot, higher end Consumer and 'Prosumer' Digital SLR (with one or two lenses and perhaps a filter or two) and then you have your high-end SLR setups (along with dozens of lenses and filters, etc..). I would probably be lost and fairly crude with a high-end but a professional who knew it would be able to make it dance.
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We have MSnot Windoze as the other OS's don't 'play nice' with our accounting, reporting and project management software (larger company, so the current Linux and GNU apps won't really work for us).
Been trying to talk our software vendors into making Linux or Mac versions, but the response is always "Why? Just for you?". I guess we're large, but not large enough.
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...This may be contrary to popular wisdom, but I don't think the F-35 has gone terminal just yet. LockMart and the pols/appointees who enabled this to go far over budget (or more correctly, KNEW how much it would cost and misled/lied about it) need to pay a high price, but the aircraft itself has had roughly the same level of problems as other cutting-edge birds that eventually worked their problems out. I would remind people of such disasters as:
F-111 - a maintenance, reliability, and combat nightmare when first introduced, not to mention the very first Cost Overrun From Hell(TM), and eventually became a superb strike bird with a 30 year career.
F-16 - Had some remarkably bad habits when it entered service: wire bundle chafing that led to fires, and hiccups with the APU that led to fatalities. Now a global standard.
F-15 - A maintenance disaster when it entered service that badly embarrassed the USAF. Now, after nearly 40 years, still undefeated in aerial combat.
The fact is that the first production run of any new aircraft is going to be a horror show. Yes, we have every right to be angry about the problems that the -35 has faced, especially when one remembers that it had more than a decade of test and development behind it. But I respectfully suggest it's still too early to call it a capital F-Failure yet.
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Look how long it took to get the Osprey in service.
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F-16 trivia: Originally offered to the USN as a replacement for the A-7 ( Light Attack). USN then decided it wanted 2 engines; enter the F/A 17 that morphed into the Hornet. The F-16 hit every data point the navy wanted right out of the box; the Hornet had to wait till it got 'Super-sized' to hit those original requirements. The change to multi engine was AFTER the RFQ was let.
I had been on the ground helping Al Jazeera America** cover the protests and unrest in Ferguson, Mo., since this all started last week. After what I saw last night, I will not be returning. The behavior and number of journalists there is so appalling, that I cannot in good conscience continue to be a part of the spectacle.
**A clarification edit: I am not a full-time employee of any Al Jazeera branch or network. I am a freelance journalist who contributes to several media platforms.
Things Ive seen:
-Cameramen yelling at residents in public meetings for standing in way of their cameras
-Cameramen yelling at community leaders for stepping away from podium microphones to better talk to residents
-TV crews making small talk and laughing at the spot where Mike Brown was killed, as residents prayed, mourned
-A TV crew of a to-be-left-unnamed major cable network taking pieces out of a Ferguson business retaining wall to weigh down their tent
-Another major TV network renting out a gated parking lot for their one camera, not letting people in. Safely reporting the news on the other side of a tall fence.
-Journalists making the story about them
-National news correspondents glossing over the context and depth of this story, focusing instead on the sexy images of tear gas, rubber bullets, etc.
-One reporter who, last night, said he came to Ferguson as a networking opportunity. He later asked me to take a picture of him with Anderson Cooper.
One anecdote that stands out: as the TV cameras were doing their live shots in front of the one burnt-out building in the three-block stretch of Ground Zero, around the corner was a community food/goods drive. I heard one resident say: Where are the cameras? Im going to go see if I can find some people to film this.
Last night a frustrated resident confronted me when he saw my camera: Yall are down here photographing US, but who gets paid?!
There are now hundreds of journalists from all over the world coming to Ferguson to film what has become a spectacle. I get the sense that many feel this is their career-maker. In the early days of all this, I was warmly greeted and approached by Ferguson residents. They were glad that journalists were there. The past two days, they do not even look at me and blatantly ignore me. I recognize that I am now just another journalist to them, and their frustration with us is clear. In the beginning there was a recognizable need for media presence, but this is the other extreme. They need time to work through this as a community, without the cameras. Schuessler's list defines the parasites. Well done ek se.
[FOXNEWS] Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Mo., police officer whose fatal shooting of Michael Brown touched off more than a week of demonstrations, suffered severe facial injuries, including an orbital (eye socket) fracture, and was nearly beaten unconscious by Brown moments before firing his gun, a source close to the department's top brass told FoxNews.com.
"The Assistant (Police) Chief took him to the hospital, his face all swollen on one side," said the insider. "He was beaten very severely."
According to the well-placed source, Wilson was coming off another case in the neighborhood on Aug. 9 when he ordered Michael Brown and his friend Dorain Johnson to stop walking in the middle of the road because they were obstructing traffic. However,
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The following items have NOT been stolen by the looters; Pens, pencils, resume kits, work boots, work gloves, work coveralls, men's trouser belts, and father's day cards
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I'm curious if the #1 law 'enforcement' officer in the country - Eric "My People" Holder, has visited him yet. I haven't been paying that much attention but my guess is no.
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So apparently Wilson shot that poor innocent black child out of pure revenge. /sarcasm
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The slobbering, drooling lefty MSM idiots were disgusting in their so-called reporting of this story--nothing close to objective reporting. CNN showed its true colors. They should be ashamed. I didn't watch MSNBC, so I couldn't say what they were like. My guess is that they were right in there presenting their lefty narrative which was no where close to the truth.
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Just goes to show how badly the cops blew it by waiting a week before releasing any details. The whole thing was framed by the media as an assasination and it'll take history books to undo that narrative now.
[Daily Caller] The private security contractor Asymmetric Solutions deployed its military-level High Threat Team to provide security for a client in Ferguson this week.
The Missouri-based company is headed by former Navy SEAL Jared Ogden and is staffed by other SEALs, as well as Green Berets and former SWAT and FBI officers, according to its website, which states, Asymmetric Solutions additionally employs adjunct staff from a variety of military special operations units, government agencies, and law-enforcement tactical units. The company also provides military-level security and combat training to private and government clients. With the FBI busy going house to house looking for Civil Rights violations, and the FBI HRT on possible stand-by for the Vineyards, one can just about guess who the client was. These guys don't come cheap and would have had to have had Fed/local law enforcement coordination. Sorry, I don't see this as a positive development.
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You did post it as Land of the Free, Besoeker, and that was a legitimate framing of the story. But because the situation in Ferguson is ongoing, we decided to cluster all the news articles under Non-WoT: Home Front: Culture Wars for the ease of the reader. We're also clustering Ebola stories under Signs, Portents and the Weather, and antisemitism stories under Short Attention Span Theater, rather than by geographical location.
I quite agree with your assessment that this is a disturbing development.
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Roger TW, no prob. This HP Px special wouldn't permit me to post the Asymmetric link yesterday. Appears it's residential DS episode is over this morning. Here it is.
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BTW, I don't have a problem with Asymmetric Solutions for private, non-governmental, or overseas gov't and security work. Augmenting domestic Law Enforcement however, [if this is what it is] is a horse of a different colour. We really don't need any gov't contracted Kapos in this country.
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.
[FREEP] A Virginia man with the last name Stoner is facing drug charges after police found more than $10,000 worth of marijuana plants at his home.
[ABC7CHICAGO] Antonio Smith, 9, was fatally shot in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood, his family told Eyewitness News Wednesday night. 
In an era without television and radio, people often looked for means of entertainment outside of the home. The Roaring Twenties saw an odd but not new spectacle of “flagpole sitting”. Pole sitting is the act of sitting on a pole, typically a flagpole, for as long as possible. Sometimes a small platform is placed at the top of the pole but often the pole sitter rests upon the pole unassisted.
By Chris Covert
[FREEP] Might Microsoft be ready to reveal the latest version of its Windows operating system?
