A federal grand jury has indicted 26-year-old Raphael Enrique Amoroso with two criminal charges.
He is accused of taking a .45 caliber pistol onto the grounds of a high school, alleging that he may have been planning an attack on a football game, and he is also charged with being an illegal marijuana user in possession of firearms.
A judge ordered him held without bail after the prosecution argued he was a danger to the community. Authorities cited a novel about a sniper attack on a football game found in his car, guns seized from his home and car, and past behavior.
Arizona - A private group's plan to fly dozens of flags from light poles along Gilbert roadways has generated an impassioned debate about the nature of patriotism and proper flag etiquette, pitting the American Legion against the organization's efforts.
Despite objections from the American Legion, which has more than 1,100 members in Gilbert, the Town Council on Thursday voted 6-0 to allow 32 flags to be posted near Town Hall and in one neighborhood.
The Legion objects to the round-the-clock display and contends that the streetlights won't keep the flags properly illuminated at night. And no, zero, sneering liberal contempt or hatred of the flag was seen at all, which is as it should be.
[An Nahar] Screen spy James Bond is returning next year with a new movie called "Skyfall" and a star-studded cast, producers said Thursday. Jeez! Hang it up! Connery must be pushing 100!
Daniel Craig returns as the suave secret agent for a third time in the film, to be directed by Academy Award-winner Sam Mendes ("American Beauty"). What? No Sean Connery? Well, I ain't gonna go see it then.
Spanish star Javier Bardem will also join the cast for 007's 23rd screen adventure as Bond's foe, producers said. Who's he gonna play? Zorro? I hope Guy Williams sues!
"There's lots of surprises," Mendes told reporters, as he confirmed filming will begin Thursday and will take place in London's Whitehall, and on location in Scotland, Istanbul and Shanghai. I'm surprised they don't drop the whole idea. I mean, Ursula Andress is kinda past her prime, isn't she?
English actress Naomi Harris plays a field agent called Eve, Judi Dench reprises her role as spy chief M, while French actress Berenice Marlohe also joins the cast. M is a girl? My gag reflex just kicked in.
Bond's future was thrown into doubt when studio MGM filed for bankruptcy in 2010. That's understandable, given that the last time they did something original was 1961 or thereabouts.
But its new management and Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli announced earlier this year that the spy would live to fight another day.
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Just wondering, but when was the last time they had an actual communist-governments bad guy? It's always some George Soros clone.
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Picking Javier Bardem is a great casting choice, because he proved in No Country For Old Men that he could do villain good enough to not need any action at all.
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Daniel Craig was a very pleasant surprise as Bond. I'm looking forward to his third, and glad they got back to a harder tougher Bond
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Agreed. Craig is a kickass Bond.
Bardem did well in "No Country for Old Men", but if you want to see some excellent acting by Bardem, rent "Biutiful". His lead role in that film won him the Goya Award for Best Actor.
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IMHO Cas1n0 Royale with Daniel Craig was the best Bond movie ever. That may be heresy to some. The Bond movies with Sean Connery were all highly entertaining. But Cas1n0 Royale was grittier and more faithful the original book by Ian Fleming.
Quantum of Solace, not so much, but it had its moments.
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#10 - no disagreement. The Sean Connery Bonds were a little too fascinated by the technology increases of the day and let that be the story driver from Fleming's Bond. The Roger Moore, et al were fun escapism, but not serious movies - as it were. I'm currently ready "Carte Blanche - 007" by Jeffery Deaver (written w/ permission from the Fleming family) and it reads pretty well so far (only 100 pages in). I like Deaver, so I may be prejudiced.....but I would suggest it, so far
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I like the new Bond as well...watched both films while deployed and found them greatly entertaining...I still like Connery and even liked Dalton as well as Brosnan. (never really cared for Moore)
[Emirates 24/7] A one-month old baby, said to hold a diploma, was on the Nigerian government payroll, officials have discovered, exposing the levels to which corruption runs in Africa's most populous country. Hey, she's probably more productive than at least half of the real employees...
The name of the infant was recently found on the payment voucher of a local government council in northern Nigeria during an exercise to fish out ghost employees from a bloated workforce, Garba Gajam, justice commissioner for Zamfara State told AFP late Wednesday.
"In the on-going verification exercise of the payrolls ... in the state we discovered that a month-old baby was among the employees of one local government who is paid a salary," Gajam said.
"What is even more astonishing is that it was indicated in the payroll that the infant holds an ordinary national diploma," said Gajam, revealing that the discovery is a "widespread trend in the local government service where bigwigs stuff payrolls with the names of their wives and children".
In August the name of a five-month-old baby was found on the payroll of another local municipality, prompting an investigation.
"And we have been receiving amazing revelations which point to the rot and abysmal level of corruption at the local government level," Gajam said.
Perpetrators will be have to refund the siphoned funds and face prosecution for misappropriating public funds.
Zamfara is one of the 12 predominantly Mohammedan states in northern Nigeria that adopted the sharia law which imposes amputation of a wrist for theft.
So far no-one has been tried for corruption in a sharia court in the state since the re-introduction of the penal code in 1999.
In 2001, two cattle rustlers had their right wrists amputated in separate sentences, drawing local and international outrage. How do you amputate a wrist?
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[Bangla Daily Star] Incidents of political killing have taken an alarming rise in the country with death of over 100 leaders and activists of different parties in the last 10 months.
In most of the cases, popular local leaders with the prospect of obtaining nominations in the parliamentary elections have been killed by their rivals. On the other hand, the nation did not witness any of the alleged killers get punished, which according to many, has created a flattering ground for political murders.
While some of these killings took place during festivities between ruling Awami League and opposition BNP supporters, a significant share of incidents involves killing of one AL leader by another of the same party.
Sources said over 7,000 accused have been released under political consideration during the tenure of the present government while a number of accused awarded death sentence, including 22 convicts in two cases of Natore and Laxmipur, were pardoned.
Meanwhile, ...back at the sandwich shop, Caroline was experimenting with ingredients of increasing volatility... the law enforcers did not make any headway in almost all the cases related to political murder due to political interferences and blame games. In some cases, law enforcers resorted to arresting innocent people belonging to the opposite political camp.
For instance, truth of the murder of AL activist Ibrahim Ahmed on August 13 last year still remains in the dark due to the involvement of ruling party politician Nurunnabi Chowdhury Shaon.
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Especially for the thieves if the powers to be let the Ghurkas do what they do so very well.
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There was a time they could not stay in England. Retired sounds like they be allowed to stay. I remember a Military presentation featuring the Ghurkas for the Royalty at I believe Albert Hall.
Honorable history they have.
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...2020s? Well, that's about 7 hours and forty minutes from now, EST. We better get packin'.
Mike
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"Late 2020's" = Russia being optimistic, espec given ...
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Rian] NORTH KOREA TO RENT FARM LAND IN RUSSIA'S FAR EAST.
IMO the DPRK is politely giving China "the Bird"???
* SAME > CHINA STARVING TO BUILD BUSTLING BORDER TOWNS [Kashgar, Horgos] IN XINJIANG BY 2020.
>Kashgar = Pakistan + West, South Asia
> Horgos = Kazakhistan + Central Asia.
[WILL SMITH + "WILD WILD WEST" VIDEO here].
* IIRC TOPIX > REPORT: CHINA EXPELS OVER 5000 NORTH KOREAN REUGEES ANUALLY. Doesn't wanna feed or house 'em,etc. ergo send them back home to be punished under Kimmie.
As the global financial crisis continues to hit the eurozone, Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, and other European leaders have been banking on China to step in and wave its magic wand. But is China prepared to bailout Europe?
Al Jazeera's Teymoor Nabili talks to Jin Liqun, the supervising chairman of China Investment Corporation, China's sovereign wealth fund, to find out whether China is willing to invest more money in Europe, in particular in the European Financial Stability Fund (IFSF), which European leaders now want to beef up for future bailouts.
Jin, who has served as China's deputy minister of finance and vice president of the Asian Development Bank, manages $400bn worth of the nations money through the sovereign wealth fund. He says unless Europe changes its labour laws and adjusts its welfare system, he does not consider it to be a profitable investment.
"If you look at the troubles which happened in European countries, this is purely because of the accumulated troubles of the worn out welfare society. I think the labour laws are outdated. The labour laws induce sloth, indolence, rather than hardworking. The incentive system, is totally out of whack."
"Why should for instance, within eurozone, why should some members people have to work to 65, even longer, whereas in some other countries they are happily retiring at 55, languisihing on the beach! This is unfair! The welfare system is good for any society to reduce the gap, to help those who happen to have disadvantages, to enjoy a good life, but a welfare society should not induce people not to work hard."
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The Chinese have long had a good head for business, and have no incentive at all to lie about bad business practices--or to loan money to those who engage in such practices.
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.
A one-month old baby, said to hold a diploma, was on the Nigerian government payroll, officials have discovered, exposing the levels to which corruption runs in Africa's most populous country.
