You've probably guessed, if you don't already know for sure, that I'm being sued by the Righthaven lawsuit mill. This is despite active steps I and the mods have taken to prevent anything emanating from the Las Vegas Review-Journal being posted here.
If you think Rantburg performs an important service to the blogosphere please kick in to the defense fund and have your friends kick in as well. I'm not a lawyer and I don't have an awful lot of money to spend on lawyers. What's in Paypal at the moment is enough for the next three or four months of hosting.
I always hate to ask for money. I don't run the Burg to make a profit. I especially hate to ask for contributions for such a stupid reason. But you can't ignore malevolence. If you do it'll eat you up, in this case to the tune of more thousands of dollars than I have.
I've bought the Bottomfeeder.org domain name to track news about Righthaven and as a contribution point. I'm going to put a banner pointing to it on the Burg as a reminder any time you have spare change. Any other bloggers needing a place can email me and I'll put up a similar page for them.
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Bleargh. Guess there's not really anything such as fair use anymore, really.
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So that everyone understands, we mods work to ensure that we're not actively violating copyright laws as we understand them. We're not lawyers and we've always believed that we're doing what is legal and proper, especially as we see it around the blogosphere. Apparently the LVRJ disagrees.
What is 'fair use' is open to dispute, apparently, and we mods want to make sure that we don't have any other posts that might be of concern to copyright holders. We have posted our roles in the past, including this past Sunday, and we refer you to them. Let's be conservative until the world figures out what 'fair use' really means.
In the meantime, any contributions to Fred and the Burg are greatly appreciated. We'll get this sorted out.
AoS
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Also, if anyone has any thoughts on the legal side, whether professional or amateur, and would like to share, all emails gratefully accepted. Or here in the thread, if that's appropriate (I don't know much about such things). Fred's email is the second hotlink from the top of the yellow bar in the right margin of Page 1 -- just let your eyes slide over there as you scroll back up a bit. ;-)
Walmart has setup WalmartCommunityVotes.com: Who – and what – you vote for is your decision. WalmartCommunityVotes.com is dedicated to providing you with the resources, tools, and information to help you make that decision – in a non-partisan and objective format.
They have already posted 4 article from the Las Vegas Review-Journal!
Hope this helps, this is a conspiracy forum...really off the wall, but there was an administrator named SHR with some really interesting comments during the BP oil well blow-out in the gulf that I managed to google into. He is apparently an oil industry insider.
Anyhow, I noticed this a ways back and remembered and seems like some good information regarding these suits.
Also, here's an interesting link from SHR himself regarding a possible link between Righthaven and Obama? Never read it, but might be interesting...
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Well, sh*t. Leeches.
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Get a good lawyer Fred. These guys are scum.
Questiosn to raise;
1) Venue. Do NOT accept the Nevada court. Federal court rules do allow you to petition to move the trial to where the alleged damages occurred, and that would be your home state Fred. First move would be to move it out of Nevada, find a lawyer that can do that.
1a) Standing. I assume they purchased the copyright well after whatever article was publish. Did they purchase the copyright after the ALLEGED infringement here at Rantburg? The article is cached? Is it fair use except? DEMAND they produce evidence.
2) Actual Damages (not much you can do about statutory ones) - show that the actual damages are nearly nothing.
3) Mitigation - show steps that mitigate ANY of the alleged damages, but admit to NO infringement.
If you or you and some allies have the money, use the defendant's power of subpoena to dig through their records, and pierce the corporate veil if you can to get to the scumbag behind all this. Make it evident that THEY will have some skin in this game. Bombard them with motions, requests for information, subpoenas, anything you can to tie them up and cost them more money than this iw worth.
Start protecting your assets. Make Rantburg and LLC, get safe harbor protection from the US copyright office if you have not already done so. Prep a new site, and protect it, move your archives off line. Prepare to shutdown Rantburg, and prepare to help whatever LLC get started, carryign over all legal content (be sure to SELL the indexes, bad guy galleries, comments, and such to whatever LLC, transferring legal ownership of comments, usernames, etc, that you do in fact own).
Banding together with others will help. Get your suit moved in with the others as a class if possible.
Do not get Fred into trouble. I know a lot of us are ops (former) military, and as such we tend to take a direct fight. This is nto the time or palce for it. Fred needs lawyers, lawyers cost money. If you must do something, Give MONEY to carry the fight to the enemy! No matter how tempting do NOT do any of the following in association with Rantburg (DU is already doing a lot of these things anyway, so let them handle questionable direct/personal and possibly illegal activities, which seems to be their stock-in-trade, that they do so well.
LET OTHERS Launch accusations of Barratry - show Righthaven's choosing of suits and venues is designed not to serve justice, but to harass and put in the most unfair position specifically targeting defendants least capable of properly responding - and show it as a pattern.
LET OTHERS publish this guys name, HOME address, credit report info, cars make model and license tag, real estate tax information, state tax information, voter registration data, home phone, mobile phone number, wife's name and mobile number and where she works, children' names and ages and schools, parents and siblings names and addresses.
LET OTHERS protest at this guys house, his children schools, places of business, and associated businesses (Hey DU, great place for your Giant Puppets and bullhorns!)
Do NOT do those things because that would be wrong and possibly illegal. If you do that here the Mods will quickly and completely delete such data, you can bet on that.
"Borrowing a page from patent trolls, the CEO of fledgling Las Vegas-based Righthaven has begun buying out the copyrights to newspaper content for the sole purpose of suing blogs and websites that re-post those articles without permission. And he says heÂ’s making money."
Gibson’s vision is to monetize news content on the backend, by scouring the internet for infringing copies of his client’s articles, then suing and relying on the harsh penalties in the Copyright Act — up to $150,000 for a single infringement — to compel quick settlements. Since Righthaven’s formation in March, the company has filed at least 80 federal lawsuits against website operators and individual bloggers who’ve re-posted articles from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, his first client.
Now he’s talking expansion. The Review-Journal’s publisher, Stephens Media in Las Vegas, runs over 70 other newspapers in nine states, and Gibson says he already has an agreement to expand his practice to cover those properties. (Stephens Media declined comment, and referred inquiries to Gibson.) Hundreds of lawsuits, he says, are already in the works by year’s end. “We perceive there to be millions, if not billions, of infringements out there,” he says.
Read More http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/copyright-trolling-for-dollars/#ixzz0wtThXxHB
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That totally sucks. Let me know if you need Hong Kong or China hosting, I can arrange it.
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Oops, does that mean someone needs to remove my comment from my last post up above? Sorry OldSpook. :-(
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Good suggestion, OS.
But I can tell you that discovery is expensive. :-(
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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Fred, I would suggest you contact Mark Levin at the Landmark Legal Foundation for a free consultation/opinion. This smacks of pro'bono bag the bad guys material.
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bman dear, contact me (click on my name, below, for the email unless I screwed it up) or send Fred an email. Fred might be faster -- there's a time change here and we're going to be picked up at 8-bloody-15 tomorrow morning for my mother to give a talk at one of the local high schools. *sigh* The talk is interesting, the time... not so much. At any rate, I won't even look at email until tomorrow afternoon or evening, local time. (For perspective, it is now ~10:32 p.m. here.)
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Beavis, it could as easily have been me, or somebody else...
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#18 Hatfield. That is a very good argument for defense.
I also recommend counter-suing. A half way decent attorney will find a way how. Make it class action. Have someone do a discovery of how many people these flee bitten dogs have gone after.
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Posting Reminder: Regulars have recently been doing a very good job with adding inlines, but also, please, please make a stab at rewriting the headline. Crazy attorneys can point to that deficiency as well.
Being a crabby bitch is part of my charm.
Don't just paste the headline. Please write your own.
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This SUCKS. I'll kick in something to help out. I took a look at the links provided by Black Charlie Chinemble5313--interesting. Ethics is not the strong suit of this administration. I don't know, there could be a link to Steve Gibson and his unholy cause. How do newspapers get around this copyright issue? They post and re-post stories (as well as writing original stuff.) Seems like Rantburg does this also. Are blogging sites such as Rantburg not considered journalistic sites. This is going to be tested in the Federal court system at some point. In the meantime this guy is going to continue to make money being a nuisance to others. OS had some good advice.
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This is a list of all Stephens Media pubs. Avoid them like the dickens! If need be, ban any links to them on Rantburg.
A list of the organizations, websites, and FB page dedicated to opposing RightHaven and their suits. It could put you in touch with others who have been sued and can help.
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please, please make a stab at rewriting the headline
I'll second that, and add it's really not that hard to make the headline more interesting or informative than the MSM does.
Fred, quite a few years ago I was heavily involved in software copyright issues. My experience was that lawyers were remarkably ignorant on the subject and frequently got issues of fact wrong.
My 2c worth is that if you engage a lawyer, make sure he actually understands how the Internet works.
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I followed some of the links within links of your news at Bottomfeeder.org and found this...Maybe you've seen it already yourself, but it's apparently from a trademark attorney in Vegas with advice on how to avoid suits (from the media company in question too).
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something a little larger than usual coming your way via PP, Fred, and Professor Reynolds has linked your plight. Since he has, you know, legal connections, perhaps someone will step up to help?
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Do some background searching on "the Stephens Family" of Arkansas. You've never heard of them, unless you grew up in Arkansas --
Richer than Sam Walton (put him into business)and their tentacles have long, long reaches. (Political party no issue, gave money to W Bush)
Check out Stephens Media, LLC, and then check the connection between Righthaven and Stephens Media, LLC. And follow deeper, if you can, the Stephens Media,LLC to Arkansas.
There are deep, deep pockets behind this -- it will take deep, deep pockets to fight it. Can only let the fantasies pretend a motive, but there is one.
Watch to see if they go after WalMart -- who has published online, four articles from the Las Vegas whatever it is, attributed to them. Reprints each of them.
Stephens' investment group gave Sam Walton his start and the rest is history -- as they say, "The ties that bind."
Oh, and throw in a lit'l Bill and Hillary. You might be up all night.
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Just kicked in for the defense fund. Give 'em hell Fred!
A few comments (bear in mind IANAL) ...
1) They are NOT interested in DMCA takedown of the articles, just threatening to financially ruin bloggers if they don't give them large sums of money. This sounds to me, to be awfully close to extortion. Might be worth contacting the local prosecutor or state AG to see if they agree. If so, since they are suing in bulk, do RICO statutes apply?
2) Barratry (harrassing law suits) are illegal in California, Texas, ans several other states.
3) In Dante's Inferno, Dante put lawyers practicing barratry in the Eighth Circle of Hell. Dante was too kind.
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We need to do this the right way, Fred. We need to ALL join together in boycotting Las Vegas - EVERYTHING in Las Vegas. Let them know it's because they have a totally out-of-control newspaper and an equally out-of-control lawyer working in their city. If a few million people began boycotting anything and everything about Las Vegas, including their newspaper and this a$$hole lawyer - and making sure they understand WHY they're being boycotted, I'm sure the city fathers would have something to say about it. The LVRJ can die a slow, painful death from this.
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#8 THIS IS A LEGAL FIGHT NOT A STREET FIGHT
I think you're wrong on this, OS. What we're seeing is the opening salvo of a war against non-traditional news sources. It's being conducted by a "friend of Michelle", and it's aimed not so much against people who have abused "fair use" of RJ data, but a war against ALL use of "copyrighted" material from anyone in the news business. That will kill just about 90% of all "news" weblogs. That will be followed by a war against the people owning the servers. The ultimate goal is to limit what damage the Internet can do to politicians and those close to them. I would like to be proved wrong, but I don't believe that idea has a snowball's chance in he$$.
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A very good point, OP. Bambi's people used the web in the 08 election and now they're seeing it used against them. They don't like the latter.
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Is there such a thing as a class-action defense?
#3
Robert Wagner is my hero: marries Natalie Wood, then after her death, marries Jill St John.
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Leonid Brezhnev might have been a communist bastard but at least he knew enough to admire Jill St. John when he visited President Nixon in San Clemente. I posted this picture here once before but I never get tired of it.
The central Asian terror group known as the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan announced the death of their leader, , and posted an image of his corpse. Hopefully not photo-shopped dead but really dead.
The IMU indicated that Yuldashev was killed in a US Predator airstrike last year.
Yuldashev was first reported to have been killed in a strike by an unmanned US aircraft in the town of Kanigoram on Aug. 27, 2009. So it took almost a year to die. Sounds painful.
The strike took place in a known stronghold of the Taliban forces under the command of Mullah Nazir.
I think this got missed yesterday. Long, includes a photogallery.
QAYSAR, AFGHANISTAN -- In squads of roaring dirt bikes and armed to the teeth, Taliban fighters are spreading like a brush fire into remote and defenseless villages across northern Afghanistan.
With most Afghan and NATO troops stationed in the country's south and east, villagers in the path of the Taliban advance into the once-peaceful north say they are powerless and terrified, confused by the government's inability to prevail -- and ready to side with the insurgents to save their own lives.
"How did the Taliban get into every village?" Israel Arbah asked from his mud hut in the Shah Qassim village of Faryab province. "They are everywhere. And they are moving very fast. To tell you honestly, I am really, really afraid." ISI buys dirtbikes in bulk? That's why we talk about endless cycles of violence ...
In the past year, security in northern Afghanistan has deteriorated rapidly as insurgents have seized new territory in provinces such as Kunduz and Baghlan, and even infiltrated the scenic mountain oasis of Badakhshan, where 10 members of a Christian charity's medical team were massacred this month. Each new northern base is becoming a hive of activity, with fighters rotating in and out, daily planning meetings and announcements at the mosque.
The U.S. military does not believe the Taliban has made a strategic decision to target the north to avoid the bulk of NATO forces in the south, according to a U.S. military official. But a former senior Afghan intelligence official based in the north said that is "absolutely" what has happened. I don't think the Taliban did either- I think it was their directors...
[Tolo News] At least, three Afghans were wounded on Sunday in riot in Pul-e-Sayad village of Bagram district in northern Parwan pronvince, ISAF said in a statement
The three wounded were among rioters who were throwing big rocks at US troops convoy escorting a local contractor to an Afghan Ministry of Defence compound, it said.
After attempts by foreign troops failed to stop them throwing rocks, a US service member fired in self-defence and consequently three people were injured, it further said.
It has been said that the riot was caused by the land ownership dispute between the Afghan Ministry of Defence and the villagers.
The statement quotes Col. William F. Roy, commanding officer for Task Force Wolverine as saying, "The land dispute is clearly an Afghan government issue that must be settled in order to resolve the ongoing concern of Afghans from the village of Sayad."
It is quite a while that fight and disputes over government lands are growing concern and even lead to the deaths of civilians.
In recent land dispute incidents between Kuchis and Hazaras in Kabul, three disputers were killed and thirty others were injured.
Some days ago 8 others were also killed in land disputes between two tribes in the southern Khost province.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Taliban militants in Afghanistan have called for a joint investigation into the growing number of civilian casualties in the war-torn country.
In a statement, the group said it was ready to cooperate with international forces, the UN and human rights groups to assess the issue.
It said this committee should be given a free hand to collect information from all across the country and publish its findings worldwide.
The group accused the West of ignoring civilian deaths caused by NATO troops. Ah. I get it...
It said these countries are using the issue as propaganda for their presence in the country.
The UN says it is looking into the Taliban proposal. "We are aware of the (Taliban) statement and we are studying it," a UN spokesman said. Boy! Bring the whitewash! Chop-chop! Yes Effendi! And the rose-colored glasses as well?
According to the UN, civilian casualties in Afghanistan have gone up by 31 percent since the start of 2010.
A recent report by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in early August put the number of civilian casualties at 1,270 so far this year. The report says nearly 2,000 others have been injured as a result of the conflict.
"Afghan children and women are increasingly bearing the brunt of the conflict," Staffan de Mistura, the special representative of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said in Kabul early this month.
"They are being killed and injured in their homes and communities in greater numbers than ever before," he added.
The assessment also blamed 25 percent of the deaths on attacks by foreign forces stationed in Afghanistan, adding that the rest of the killings were mainly caused by Afghan militants. According to my calculator, that would be 75 percent...
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According to my calculator, that would be 75 percent...
Apparently, tu, you don't have the problem of having a gun in your ear when you make your calculations. :-)
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Taliban hogwash. I'm still waiting for their call for a probe into the dynamiting of the Bamyan Buddhist statues in Aghanistan, the stoning of their own civilians, beheadings, shootings of medical aid teams and others, the disfigurement of young girls for any number of BS reasons, their dislike for music books, and women's education, , etc. Oh, those don't count--it was just the religion of peace and tolerance speaking again.
Defense attorneys argued last month that the Ashland defendants did not meet the U.S. legal definition of piracy because they did not take command of and rob the amphibious dock landing ship.
Jackson agreed in his ruling, finding that the government "failed to establish that any unauthorized acts of violence or aggression committed on the high seas constitutes piracy as defined by the law of nations."
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Strictly speaking, only sailing ships have yardarms. Of course, almost all warships will have other things like cranes and antennae which will do just fine.
There is also the good old fashioned keel hauling.
And passing a boat like the one shown in the picture while going at flank speed would probably be enough to swamp it. Those little boats are really hard to see after all.
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Yeah, the Russian model might be attractive, but they're getting keelhauled in the court of public opinion.
[The Nation (Nairobi)] The head of the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit is expected in court on Tuesday morning to explain the arrest and detention of a Kenyan last week in connection with the twin bombings in Kampala, Uganda.
Mr Justice Aggrey Muchelule ordered the officer to bring with him the original warrant for the detention of Mr Mohammed Hamid Suleiman.
Mr Suleiman was arrested last week in Nairobi's South C estate.
His family has gone to court demanding his release saying members have not been able to reach him. "It has been more than 24 hours since he was arrested and nobody knows where he is being held."
According to Mr Suleiman's wife, Ms Zuhura Suleiman, her husband was arrested at 10.30pm last Friday. In her papers, the mother of four said her husband was picked up by 10 armed police officers.
Mr Suleiman is said to have called his mother telling her he was being held at Kasarani Police Station but the family did not find him there.
He is the latest suspect to be seized over the bombings that killed 76 people in Kampala last month.
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[Maghrebia] An Algerian court jailed a woman linked to last year's deadly Ait Aissi suicide bombing, Liberte reported on Monday (August 16th). A municipal guard died and several police officers were killed in the July 25th, 2009 attack on a gendarmerie facility15km south of Tizi-Ouzou. The investigation showed that the woman, who hosted the suicide bomber the night before the assault, continued to support his terrorist group. Three other suspects in the case remain at large.
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Google Translate For a map, click here.
A second Televisa facility was attacked with an explosive device Sunday night in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, according to Mexican press reports.
This attack is a second attack on Televisa facilities in a day with both hit by explosive devices.
The attack in Matamoros took place near the intersection of Bulevar Manuel Cavazos Lerma and Calle Fresnoc in the Paseo Residencial district.
The grenade was launched using a grenade launcher from a nearby pedestrian bridge by unidentified assailants. The grenade detonated on the second floor of the building causing damage to the building. No injuries were reported.
The attack on the Monterrey facility was done using a hand grenade.
Press reports say in both attack elements of Los Zetas criminal gangs were probably involved in the attack.
Google Translate from a variety of web sources. For a map, click here.
In possible conjuction with a multiple shooting in southern Monterrey, several armed suspects conducted a massive campaign of blocking roads by gunpoint Sunday evening, say Mexican press reports.
The killings took place at about 1830 hrs in the Fomerrey 45 district where three men were shot to death by armed suspects riding in a two vehicle convoy.
Gangs blocked several roads in the immediate area of the murders forcing drivers of commercial vehicles as well as personal sedans to abandon them by gunpoint, and then using the vehicles to block roads.
The first blocks in or near the Formerrey 45 district included Avenida Garza Sada and calles Salto del Agua, Lazaro Cardenas, Alfonso Reyes and Diagonal.
Additional blocks were made on Felix U. Gomez where it crosses calles Constitucion, Calzada Madero, Colon, Conchello, Magnolia and Ruiz Cortines.
City state and federal forces are often combined in Monterrey to deal with gang and drug related violence into rapid reaction groups to deal with the major crimes and the blocks,however, gangs have been learning to coordinate blocks in conjunction with specific actions in order to frustrate police responses.
Officials have released that a total of 22 blocks were made in the city, but local press say a total of 39 blocks were made in the city, but by 2330 hrs only half had been unblocked.
A total of 15 individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence in northern Mexico which included a triple shooting in Monterrey, Nuevo leon. For a map, click here.
A man was shot to death Sunday evening in Juarez, say Mexican news reports. Two individuals were on foot near the intersection of Boulevard Zaragoza between Eje Vial and Calle Oscar Flores in south Juarez where armed suspects riding in a vehicle shot and killed one of the victims, and wounded the other.
Eight individuals were murdered Sunday night and Monday morning in Juarez, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. Three unidentified men were found strangled to death aboard a Jaguar sedan with Texas plates near the intersection of Camino Real and Calle Anapra. The trio were all shot but they died by strangulation. Three individuals on foot were shot death near the intersection of Avenida Las Torres and Calle De la O by a single armed suspect. An unidentified individual was shot to death aboard his Jeep Patriot near the intersection of Avenida Tecnologico and Calle Aguacaliente. Lastly, an individual was found dead and partially naked in the Fidel Avila district.
An unidentified individual was found murdered and wrapped in a blanket in Juarez, according to Mexican press reports. The find was made Monday morning in the Aldama district.
An unidentified man in his 20s was found shot to death in Nogales, Sonora Sunday evening, according to Mexican press accounts. The victim was found on Calle Pirgos in the the Greco district about 200 meters from the US Consolate. The victim had been shot with an AR-15 assault rifle and a 9mm weapon, probably a pistol.
Three young men were shot to death Sunday night in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, according to Mexican press accounts. Jesse and Cristian Gonzalez Rangel, both 20, and Angel Robles, 17, were shot to death Sunday evening near the intersection of calles de La Hacienda and Paseo del Cortijo in the Fomerrey 45 district by several armed suspects riding in a convoy which included a Dodge Durango SUV and a Chevrolet pickup truck. A fourth individual, Johnny Rangel Silva, 14, was also shot, but is expected to recover.
A man was found shot to death in Juarez Monday afternoon, according to Mexican press reports. The shooting took place near the intersection of calles Camilo Cienfuegos and Santa Clara in the Che Guevara district where the victim was found laying street.
From the Hung-Up-On-Crime Department
A young thief had to be rescued by police from angry villagers in Oaxaca in Mexico, after a they hanged him from his feet in punishment for his alleged crimes, say Mexican press accounts.
Ismael Lopez Hernandez, 17, of the village Santa Cruz Xoxocotlan, was somehow detained by irate villagers who proceeded to hang him by his feet and threaten to burn him alive for stealing a cell phone from a minor.
Villagers had him hanging in a church courtyard for hours constantly being threatened with immolation until police negotiated his release in exchange for reinforced patrols in the area.
A SUICIDE bomber blew himself up at a crowded Iraqi army recruitment centre in Baghdad today killing 41 people. The attack, which wounded at least 102 other people, occurred about 7.30am local time in the Baab al-Muatham neighbourhood of central Baghdad, an interior ministry official said.
Details of the death toll and the number injured varied across a range reports. Which means News Limited copied this news item from their reports It's not like they're going to risk a precious reporter in Baghdad ...
Reuters reported up to 43 had been killed with 106 wounded, while the Associated Press (AP) reported 41 were killed and 112 injured.
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I can see it now. "Hey, those are the guys that killed my brother, father, son, uncle, cousin (you get it). Let me call US Special Operations on that nifty cell phone they gave me to let them know where these terrorist are hiding."
How butt-stupid can these guys be?
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fatalities will go much higher as the wounded die
terrorist attacks have peaked during Ramadan for the past several years now in Iraq
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As I said here years ago, "Take a number and disperse, we'll use the bullhorn when we are ready for you."
Woe is me, no one listens to me.
At least the recruitment center was crowded, that's good.
Probably Ramadan set him off.
According to initial reports, a man who came to the Turkish Embassy unclothed was shot and wounded. Police are on the scene. No further details are yet available.
[Jerusalem Post Front Page] An IDF soldier was lightly wounded on Monday in clashes with Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip.
The soldier, from the Armored Corps, was part of a force that intercepted two Palestinians who were trying to lay a bomb along the security fence in the southern Gaza Strip. The force detected the Palestinians and opened fire, killing one of them. In response, sniper fire was opened and the soldier was wounded and evacuated to Soroka Hospital in Beersheba.
It is still not clear who was responsible for the blast.
Following the clashes, two rockets exploded in open land in the Eshkol area near the Gaza Strip. No injuries were reported and no damage was caused.
The incidents comes after a Palestinian was killed by IDF gunfire in southern Gaza near the town of Khan Younis two weeks ago.
IDF Spokesperson said soldiers saw a group of men approach Israel's border fence with Gaza and launched an air strike against them.
The IDF has recorded 35 attempts by Palestinians to plant bombs along the border fence since the beginning of the year.
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So it seems Israel is ringed with snipers.
A virtual siege.
Only not so virtual.
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A Palestinian jihadi was killed and an Israeli soldier injured on Monday evening during clashes in southeast Gaza Strip. Israeli troops noticed a group of terrorists trying to plant a roadside bomb near the fence between southeast Gaza Strip and Israel. The troops immediately opened fire at the group, killing one terrorist while the others ran away fled.
Buh-bye!
Meanwhile, an Israeli soldier was slightly injured when another Palestinian terrorist opened fire on Israeli troops near the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel. Bassam al-Daghma, 22 , was killed after he was shot by Israeli soldiers during the exchange of fire. Al-Daghma is was a member of al-Quds Brigade. Paleos claim that he was left bleeding in the area until he died.
"Don't cry for me, Palestinaaaaaa ..."
The fight began when terrorists fired a homemade projectile at Israeli army vehicles patrolling the area between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Following the clashes, troops stormed the area.
[Straits Times] PHILIPPINE police say a manhunt is underway for gunmen wearing fatigues who have seized a Filipino businessman in southern Cotabato city.
Chief Inspector Alden Panganiban says at least six gunmen barged into a hardware store owned by Nelson Tay on Monday, disarming security guards and dragging him at gunpoint to a waiting van.
Witnesses say the men were armed with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles.
No one has claimed responsibility, and police say they have no suspects.
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What should make news is the day that nobody in the Philippines is kidnapped.
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[Straits Times] TIRED of government inaction, Christians and other religious minorities in Indonesia are pushing back against rising violence by Islamic hard-liners.
For months, Christians in the industrial city of Bekasi have been warned against worshipping on a field that houses their shuttered church. They've arrived to find human faeces dumped on the land and sermons have been interrupted by demonstrators chanting 'Infidels!' and 'Leave now!' But last week, tensions finally exploded.
Twenty worshippers were met by 300 Islamic hard-liners, many of whom hurled shoes and water bottles before pushing past a row of riot police. The mob chased down and punched several members of the group.
'The constitution guarantees our right to practice our religion!' Yudi Pasaribu of the Batak Christian Protestant Church, vowing to return every Sunday until their request for a place of worship, made more than two years ago, is approved. 'And we want to do that on our own property, in our own church.' Indonesia, a secular country of 237 million people, has more Muslims than any other in the world. Though it has a long history of religious tolerance, a small extremist fringe has become more vocal in recent years.
Hard-liners have also become more violent, according to the Setara Institute for Peace and Democracy, a human rights group, which said there have already been 28 attacks on religious freedom in 2010, including everything from preventing groups from performing prayers to burning houses of worship. The institute said there were 18 such incidents in all of 2009 and 17 in 2008.
Though most Indonesians are moderate and oppose violence, critics say President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's government has been slow to intervene because it relies heavily on the support of Islamic parties in parliament.
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Having once worked for an Iranian PHD (expatriate?) my hunch is a lot of their stuff if not most, doesn't work right. I fixed a software bug that had been causing the system to intermittently crash (which he had originally written) for months and which he kept insisting was a hardware problem, which resulted in great expense for replacement parts and labor, and it would crash during demos. I think he was pissed when I fixed it.
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TOPIX > NORTH KOREA FLEW DRONE OVER SENSITIVE SEA BORDER: SOUTH KOREA. Seoul = ROK is repor also analyzing the North's NEW MBT [improved
T-62 variant]???
ION TOPIX > NORTH KOREA REJECTS SOUTH'S UNIFICATION PROPOSAL [decadent US-led plot to weaken + attack DPRK].
* SAME > CHINA INCREASES MILITARY ADVANTAGE OVER TAIWAN: PENTAGON. USDOD Report argues that China desires to improve + increase its mil capabilities to strike beyond Taiwan, i.e. conduct efffec LR MilOps agz MOST OF JAPAN, PHILIPPINES + AS FAR AWAY AS GUAM.
DREAM > may explain, in part, why [Red-Star]PLAAF PLANES are flying oer + near FUTURE GUAM-WESTPAC.
* SAME > PENTAGON DEMANDS ON CHINESE MILITARY [Openness = Transparency] IMPOSSIBLE: WARN SCHOLARS | CHINA UNABLE TO SATISFY US ON MILITARY OPENNESS.
* WMF > [Global Times] US EXPERTS: US COULD SUFFER TOTAL MIL FAIL IN WAGING WAR AGZ CHINA IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEAS.
* CHINA + CPLA enjoy LOCAL SUPERIORITY.
* CHINA is in better STRATEGIC REGIONAL POSITION vee US-Allies.
* Potential US Allies are intimidated by China + thus are hesitant to induce CPLA military retaliation agz their Countries.
* China continues to make steady significant improvements to its LR Missle, Air, + Naval capabilities [force projection].
VERSUS
TOPIX > VARIOUS > CHINA STILL A "DEVELOPING COUNTRY" DESPITE ECON TAKEOVER FROM JAPAN [World #2 behind USA].
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The central Asian terror group known as the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan announced the death of their leader, , and posted an image of his corpse.
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A Palestinian jihadi was killed and an Israeli soldier injured on Monday evening during clashes in southeast Gaza Strip. Israeli troops noticed a group of terrorists trying to plant a roadside bomb near the fence between southeast Gaza Strip and Israel. The troops immediately opened fire at the group, killing one terrorist while the others 
