[Emirates 24/7] A man pulled out his gun, aimed at his cousin's head and fired. The gun did not fire so he chased him and fired again and again until a shot hit him in the head, abruptly ejecting him from the gene pool as the killer stood staring in disbelief. Hilarious, ain't it?
The incident was not part of an action movie but that what a Saudi man told the police when they busted him for plugging his 27-year-old cousin. "He's dead, Jim!"
"Book him, Danno!"
"I was only joking... we were playing and acting like in movies....I did not know there was a bullet in the gun," the unnamed man said, according to a report by the Arabic language daily Kabar from the western port of Jeddah. "Honest! I din't know it wuz loaded!"
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Accessible supplies of neodymium and 16 other rare earth elements -- which occupy those two orphaned rows at the bottom of the periodic table -- are running short. China, which controls supplies of 97% of these materials, doesn't like sharing them with the West. And the only U.S. mine for rare earth elements went out of production after a radioactive waste accident in the 1990s. I didn't hear about this. Was it really that bad?
Throw in the fact that rare earth elements are important to all kinds of technologies -- they're the reason smartphones vibrate, why TVs have vivid reds and greens, and how computer hard drives are able to etch data -- and you've got a recipe that scares many technologists and researchers. Hey, what's so bad about floppy drives?
Hadjipanayis and the other researchers are using nanotechnology to essentially remix the recipe for today's strongest magnets. Call my mother-in-law. She can make anything out of nothing in the kitchen.
Hadjipanayis said he feels like he's trying to cram 100 years' worth of work into the three years that make up his Energy Department contract. He visits the lab daily to check on the progress. He worries about the high risk involved. Oh no! No more stupid hybrids!
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"China, which controls supplies of 97% of these materials"
This is actually misleading. China controls 97% of production but not 97% of the deposits of them. The US has huge deposits of rare earths but EPA regulations make it nearly impossible to mine and refine them. The one US processing plant is due to go back on line soon after extensive retrofitting to meet regulations.
The "radioactive waste" accident was extremely minor. The material is no more radioactive than ash from a coal power plant.
If a nuclear power plant (or rare earths refining plant) emitted as much radiation as a coal power plant (due to natural uranium in the coal), they would be shut down.
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Didn't they find quite a few rare earths on the Moon? I do seem to remember there were significant deposits at one landing site. That would be one excellent reason to go back there. Use solar radiation for 90% of the power requirement, use the best possible means of separation in that type of environment, and ship the very small quantities needed in electronics back to Earth. I'm sure China isn't trying to get to the Moon for utopian reasons.
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The woman, Halyna Kolotnytska who is now 38, arrived in Kiev earlier this week with some other non Libyians.
In the picture she is wearing too many clothes to be on the cover of the Defender-Scimitar but another photo of her show her off better (although the two photos might have been taken years apart).
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[Arab News] An Egyptian court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by ousted geriatric President Hosni Mubarak and his family against a top prosecutor's move to seize funds that could total in the billions of dollars.
The decision clears the way for a criminal investigation and a possible trial of Egypt's ousted leader.
Mubarak stepped down Feb. 11 at the end of 18 days of massive protests demanding his ouster after nearly 30 years in power. He, his wife, two sons and their wives have also been banned from travel abroad.
Bet they wish they were in Gay Paree with Suha right now...
Judicial officials described the decision in closed court to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
There are no official figures on the funds held by Mubarak and his family but many believe they run into the billions, with much of it held overseas.
The officials said presiding judge Makram Awad rejected a defense request for more time to prepare the defense and decided instead to reject the appeal. The opposition that ousted Mubarak has pushed for a criminal investigation and a possible trial for members or all of the family.
Prosecutors' actions suggest that they would be willing to pursue that course of action.
Egypt's attorney general froze the assets of the Mubaraks on Feb. 20 and ordered the family's funds seized eight days later. Authorities also prevented Mubarak's wife and son from flying out of the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where they are thought to be staying.
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Common lesson, if you are the boss and you step down your enemies will:
1) Seize funds
2) Prosecute until something sticks.
3) you will die in jail or on the rope.
Three guesses why its "fight to the death" in Libya.
[Al Jazeera] A Tunisian court has dissolved the former ruling party of the country's deposed leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
The court in Tunis, the capital, announced the end of the Rally for Constitutional Democracy (RCD) on Wednesday, but the party said it would appeal against the decision.
The chamber "decided to dissolve the Rally for Constitutional Democacy and to liquidate its assets and funds," the court said in its ruling, triggering a burst of applause.
Pro-democracy activists have been demanding the party's dismantling since Ben Ali was ousted on January 14 after a popular uprising, that triggered unrest across the Arab world.
The RCD was suspended from official activities in February by the interior ministry, after Ben Ali decamped the country.
The party, which claimed a membership of two million people out of a population of around 10.4 million, was accused of violating the constitution to set up a one-party "totalitarian regime" under Ben Ali.
Since it was created in 1988, the party had never been audited and had never filed annual accounts, the interior ministry said.
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[Maghrebia] Tunisia on Monday (March 7th) dissolved the secret police of ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's regime. A statement posted on the Tunisian Interior Ministry Facebook page said that the abolition of the State Security Department was "in line with the values and principles of the revolution" and part of the interim government's "commitment to respecting the law in letter and in practice, and to maintaining a climate of trust and transparency in the relationship with citizens".
"This is a daring decision that will change the concept of state security to 'people security', so that security personnel may be in the service of citizens rather than a symbol of horror and fear," Tunisian citizen Amira Hammami said.
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[Maghrebia] Interim Tunisian Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi on Monday (March 7th) announced a new government after citizens demanded the authorities sever all ties with the former regime.
The 22-minister cabinet is the third to be formed since the fall of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in the Tunisian revolution. Caid Essebsi announced that the administration would remain the same except for the ministers who resigned their posts last week.
The resigning ministers included Planning Minister Mohamed Nouri Jouini and Industry Minister Afif Chelbi. In the new administration, Jouni was replaced by Abdelhamid Triki while Abdellaziz Rassaa will assume Chelbi's position.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... Rifaat Chaabouni was appointed higher education minister and Abderrazak Zouari was named regional development minister.
The new prime minister also decided to restore the state property ministry which was cancelled in the January 27th government. It will be supervised by Ahmed Adhoum.
The two factors of continuity and effectiveness were taken into consideration in selecting the members of the new government, Caid Essebsi told news hounds.
He noted that he was keen to replace the outgoing ministers with their subordinate state ministers in order to provide continuity. He said his administration was a "caretaker and rescue government", saying that its mission would be to get Tunisia to a safe shore by July 24th, the date set for constituent assembly elections.
"We want a free, transparent and objective press," Caid Essebsi said, explaining that he declined to appoint a media minister to avoid a repeat of past abuses.
The new government was met with relief by many, with Congress for the Republic chief Moncef Marzouki saying it was composed of technocrats rather than political figures.
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[Arab News] Clashes between Christians and Mohammedans escalated on Tuesday with thousands of people burning tires, smashing parked cars and cutting off a main road despite military moves to control a day of violent protests in Egypt's capital.
Tensions have been simmering between Egypt's minority Christian community and its Mohammedan majority after a Mohammedan mob burned a church in a Cairo suburb. Egypt's military rulers have since pledged to rebuild the church and Prime Minister Essam Sharaf met Monday with the protesters outside the state-television building.
On Tuesday, thousands of Christians demonstrated in locations around the city, saying they were being persecuted. But several of the gatherings descended into violence when the two sides confronted each other in the streets.
About 2,000 people cut off a main road running on the eastern side of the city and pelted motorists with rocks. A crowd of garbage collectors known as the zabaleen -- who are predominantly Christians -- also demonstrated on a main street near their neighborhood demanding equal rights and better quality of life.
Tensions remain high in Egypt nearly a month after mass protests ousted geriatric President Hosni Mubarak after nearly 30 years in power. The upheaval has plunged many parts of the country into turmoil, with virtually incessant protests, strikes and a higher rate of violent crime.
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[Arab News] In an act of bold defiance, thousands of women converged Tuesday on the bloodstained pavement where seven of their sisters fell last week, even as the army backing this country's rogue leader killed four more civilians.
The brutal slayings last week occurred when soldiers in armored personnel carriers opened fire on a crowd of female demonstrators who were armed with nothing more than tree branches, symbolizing peace.
The attack has further galvanized the international community against strongman Laurent Gbagbo ... President of Ivory Coast since 2000. Gbagbo lost to Alassane Ouattara in 2010 but his representtive tore up the results on the teevee and Laurent has refused to leave despite the international community's hemming, hawing, and broad hints... , who has refused to yield power three months after being declared the loser of his country's election.
The women had tried to march everyday since the attack Thursday only to lose their nerve in the face of an army that has shown no restraint, including by breaking the long-standing code that has always protected women. They refused to be cowed on Tuesday, however, because it was International Women's Day.
Hours after several hundred women marched in Treichville, a downtown neighborhood, the army burst in and killed at least four civilians. Reporters saw the bodies of three men and one women on the blood-splattered floor of a clinic.
Thousands of other women demonstrating near the site of last week's killings in the Abobo district were protected by men who had formed a wall across the mouth of a freeway by lining cars end-to-end.
Mariam Bamba, 32, picked up a limp branch Tuesday next to one of the blood stains on pavement. "This leaf is all they were carrying," she said of the victims.
The seven women are just a fraction of the more than 400 people killed in the three months since this country's disputed election. Because they were unarmed women, their deaths have prompted international condemnation, including from the US State Department which called Gbagbo "morally bankrupt." A video obtained by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named shows the joyful crowd blowing whistles and waving branches moments before the women are mowed down.
When Sako Bamara arrived at the hospital last Thursday, his relatives told him not to lift the cloth covering his wife's body. At least not above the shoulders. "They wouldn't let me look at her face," he said. "So I had to identify her feet," he said. Then he broke down.
The video's grainy footage clearly shows that the 34-year-old had been decapitated. Her brother-in-law was the first to arrive and recognized her by the color of her T-shirt. Bones were protruding from her neck. Beyond there was nothing. The survivors brought wooden carts from the nearby market and used them to transport the dead to the hospital.
Bamara had encouraged her to go to the march, just as so many other husbands and fathers had. "That morning she asked my permission to go. I said, 'Be careful.' Since they are women, I thought they would never shoot." At the hospital, the dead women were laid side by side, and at one point a mobile phone started ringing inside the pocket of one of the other lifeless women.
Bamara's brother lifted the cloth covering her body and retrieved it out of her pocket. On the other end was the dead girl's frantic father, Gnelle Gnon Ouattara, who could not reach his 21-year-old daughter Rokiya. He rushed to the hospital and saw his child, part of her neck sheared off by the large-caliber bullet.
"In Africa we say that it's the child that must bury the father," said Ouattara. "When it's the father that buries the child, something isn't right." The women marching Tuesday wore T-shirts bearing the smiling portrait of 'ADO' -- Alassane Dramane Ouattara, the democratically elected president who has been prevented from governing the country by Gbagbo. He has spent the first three months of his term inside a resort hotel under day-and-night United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society protection, and was to leave the grounds for the first time Tuesday night at the invitation of the African Union.
Both Ouattara and Gbagbo have been invited to travel to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to hear the verdict of the AU's Peace and Security Council, which was attempting to find a solution to the crisis. Ouattara has called on the international community to launch an armed intervention in order to oust Gbagbo, who appeared on state television last week to say that he is "hanging in there." "I heard someone say that God has left Africa," said Yacouba Ouattara, a relative of one of the dead women.
"No. It's Ivory Coast that God has left."
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[The Nation (Nairobi)] Ugandan police fired teargas and nabbed eight anti-government protesters for assaulting suspected ruling party members in Kampala on Wednesday.
Opposition supporters in the capital's Kiseka market attacked several people wearing yellow clothes -- the colour of President Yoweri Museveni's party -- after police declared a protest called by some opposition leaders illegal.
"People were (stoning) them. Beating them up. Anyone who was wearing yellow," said Deputy Police Spokesman Vincent Ssekate, adding that eight people suspected of the assault were nabbed.
"Police had to use teargas to restore calm," Mr Ssekate said. By mid-afternoon, the normally bustling market was closed to the public.
Shops and stalls were shuttered, and the area was being patrolled by a large contingent of anti-riot police and military.
Following Uganda's February 18 election which President Museveni, in power since 1986, won another five-year term with 68 percent of the vote, several opposition leaders have called for protests against a result which they say was fraudulent.
European Union observers said the election was "marred by avoidable and logistical failures, which led to an unacceptable number of Ugandan citizens being disenfranchised."
Commonwealth election monitors had "serious concerns" that there wasn't a level playing field in the run-up to the vote, mission leader Dame Billie Miller told news hounds.
Uganda is set to become Africa's newest oil producer when Tullow Oil Plc starts pumping crude oil from the Lake Albert Basin.
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Laurent Gbagbo ... President of Ivory Coast since 2000. Gbagbo lost to Alassane Ouattara in 2010 but his representtive tore up the results on the teevee and Laurent has refused to leave despite the international community's hemming, hawing, and broad hints... , the disputed president of Cote d'Ivoire, has issued a decree under which the state becomes the sole purchaser of cocoa in the world's top grower and handles its export to global markets.
Monday's announcement, made on state television, comes as renewed festivities break out in the West African country.
"The export of products in the coffee and cocoa sector are to be carried out by the state, by those mandated by the state, or holders of an exporter's licence under terms determined by the decree," state television said. ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Cocoa futures have broken 30-year highs since a disputed election in November that has triggered a power struggle between Gbagbo and rival presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara, who is internationally recognised to have won the vote.
Ouattara had earlier called for a month-long ban on cocoa exports in an attempt to cut off a key revenue generator for Gbagbo, who refused to cede power in the face of mounting international pressure.
Under the new Gbagbo decree, the state would purchase cocoa beans from farmers at a price determined by it and would then seek to get it to world markets, replacing the role of exporters who have widely followed a call by Ouattara to suspend supplies.
Cocoa supplies have been strangled by a combination of sanctions and the near-collapse of the local banking system, jeopardising a lucrative source of revenues for Gbagbo, who needs to ensure payment of army and public sector salaries to remain in power.
Spectre of civil war
The mechanics of how Gbagbo's isolated government would get the cocoa beans to world markets were not immediately clear.
The European Union had banned its ships from entering Ivorian ports. And a top US exporter of Ivorian beans, announced in January that it had suspended Ivorian exports, with most major suppliers following suit.
The squeeze has meant that some 475,000 tonnes -- over a third of annual output -- of unexported cocoa beans are sitting at Ivorian ports, according to industry regulatory data released earlier on Monday.
Once a vibrant economy in West Africa, Cote d'Ivoire now faces the spectre of a renewed civil war as the crisis over the disputed presidential election deepens.
On Sunday, the New Forces rebels, who are allied with the UN-recognised Ouattara, have said that they captured the town of Toulepleu after a fierce battle in the country's volatile west near the border with Liberia.
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Screw him. There are other places to get cocoa.
Bypassing Democrats hiding out in Illinois, Wisconsin Senate Republicans voted Wednesday night to strip state workers of their collective bargaining rights.
Republicans voted 18-1 in a hastily arranged special conference committee. None of the Senate Democrats were present.
All 14 Senate Democrats fled to Illinois nearly three weeks ago, preventing the chamber from having enough members present to consider Gov. Scott Walker's so-called "budget repair bill" -- a proposal introduced to plug a $137 million budget shortfall..
The Senate requires a quorum to take up any measures that spend money. But Republicans on Wednesday split from the legislation the proposal to curtail union rights,and a special conference committee of state lawmakers approved that bill a short time later.
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Because of the insane union contracts in Wisconsin, one Madison bus driver, John E. Nelson, was able to make $159,000 in 2009 -- about $100,000 of which in overtime pay. Jackie Gleason didn't make that much playing bus driver Ralph Kramden on "The Honeymooners." Seven bus drivers took home more than $100,000 that year.Ann Coulter
I think insane state worker compensation has finally reached it's limitations.
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Watch out for the union thugs and leftist twerps trying a false-flag operation today or tomorrow to try and shift the blame to the Tea Party and the Right. Said operation will be violent.
It's coming.
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...especially in the face of the behavior of the other side which is no longer backing down. Normally, upon 'thinking' creatures that's a signal to step back and reassess what you're doing before making another move. In this case, they'll just double down the lower primate intimidation behaviors.
After nearly a month of debate on the budget repair bill, nearly three weeks of childish stunts and delay tactics from the Democrats, the longest public hearing in state history and the longest Assembly debate in state history, the Senate met tonight to pass the non-fiscal items in the Budget Repair Bill. Sen. Fitzgerald released the following statement:
"Before the election, the Democrats promised "adult leadership" in Madison. Then a month and a half into session, the Senate Democrats fled the state instead of doing their job.
"In doing so, they have tarnished the very institution of the Wisconsin state Senate. This is unacceptable.
"This afternoon, following a week and a half of line-by-line negotiation, Sen. Miller sent me a letter that offered three options: 1) keep collective bargaining as is with no changes, 2) take our counter-offer, which would keep collective bargaining as is with no changes, 3) or stop talking altogether.
"With that letter, I realized that we're dealing with someone who is stalling indefinitely, and doesn't have a plan or an intention to return. His idea of compromise is "give me everything I want," and the only negotiating he's doing is through the media.
"Enough is enough." "The people of Wisconsin elected us to do a job. They elected us to stand up to the broken status quo, stop the constant expansion of government, balance the budget, create jobs and improve the economy. The longer the Democrats keep up this childish stunt, the longer the majority can't act on our agenda.
"Tonight, the Senate will be passing the items in the budget repair bill that we can, with the 19 members who actually DO show up and do their jobs. Those items include the long-overdue reform of collective bargaining needed to help local governments absorb these budget cuts, and the 12 percent health care premium and 5 percent pension contribution.
"We have confirmed with the Legislative Fiscal Bureau, the Legislative Council and the Legislative Reference Bureau that every item in tonight's bill follows the letter of the law.
"The people of Wisconsin elected us to come to Madison and do a job. Just because the Senate Democrats won't do theirs, doesn't mean we won't do ours."
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I gather the unionists smashed all the windows in the bus that senators were using, fortunately they were not on board at the time. However, I hope the governor is prepared to bring out the National Guard if the unionists and agitators decide to attack the House.
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This is just the beginning. Other states will soon follow. Fiscal sanity must be brought back to government. It must start with the local and state levels first.
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At some point it's either the tapeworm - or you.
A number of states are going to have to face that choice. It'll be interesting to see how many choose to die so that the tapeworm can live (for a little while longer at least).
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Wisconsin Senate Democratic leader Mark Miller said Wednesday Democrats will "join the people of Wisconsin in taking back their government," but he refused to say when.
Miller then declined to offer specifics on how the Democrats might overturn the legislation but added, "Don't worry....we got a plan. Hey...we stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night."
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Can get the jest by the avatars, but a number of posters who stuck around, by the end, were conceding as only a liberal can do, that everything was legit and they, whoever they are, lost and now what?
Someone busted out the scratchy pussy, I'd call it a day without a lexicon.
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And Assembly passed it. Game over, unless someone takes a potshot at Walker. In which case it still gets signed, just delayed a couple days.
And don't think anybody isn't thinking about doing that. The sheer scope of Death-threats means at least a couple are. Saying a Prayer tonight for the Winsconsin Republicans safety.
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After inducting advance fighter jets from China, Pakistan plans to buy six state-of-the-art submarines from the neighbouring country in a bid to boost its under-sea warfare capabilities.
You certainly think 'Chinese' when you think 'state-of-the-art submarines'...
Islamabad is planning to buy six submarines outright with options of joint development of conventional submarines with China, The Express Tribune reported.
The newspaper did not mention the class of submarines being sought by Pakistan saying merely that Islamabad wanted advanced under-sea vessels with air independent propulsion (AIP) system, which would give them capabilities to stay submerged longer and operate noiselessly.
The Defence Ministry has asked the federal Cabinet to approve the purchase of Chinese submarines to counter "emerging threats" faced by Pakistan, the paper said.
Pakistan has a total of five active diesel electric submarines plus three midget submarines. While the three submarines are of German SSK class, Islamabad had recently inducted two French Agosta class ones.
With attempts to acquire AIP technology, Islamabad would be in race with New Delhi, which plans to arm its French Scorpene submarines with the technology but only by 2013.
Pakistan's Defence Ministry informed the Cabinet that the country's Navy is facing a "critical force imbalance" in terms of the number of submarines and ships in its fleet. The "capability gap is widening exponentially with the passage of time", the report said.
The Navy plans to acquire the six AIP conventional submarines that can operate in a "multi-threat environment under tropical conditions" and are capable of launching torpedoes and missiles, the Business Recorder daily quoted official documents as saying.
A protocol for joint development and co-production of submarines by the Pakistan Navy and China Shipbuilding and Offshore Corporation will be signed shortly after approval by the federal Cabinet, the paper said.
In view of "urgent naval requirements", the issue of acquiring Chinese submarines was part of the talking points for President Asif Ali Zardari's visit to China in 2009, media reports said. The matter was also discussed during Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit to Pakistan in December 2010, the reports said.
The Cabinet has been told that Naval Headquarters had pursued the purchase of submarines with Chinese authorities, who have assured Pakistan of their "firm support" for the submarine project.
Under the proposed protocol, four submarines will be constructed at a Chinese shipyard and the remaining two in Pakistan.
Co-development and production will include joint development, training of Pakistani personnel, upgrades of Pakistan Navy's shipyard and other related aspects.
Pakistan is in the process of inducting 36 J-10 fighter aircraft from China in a deal worth more than $1.4 billion, with options open for induction of more similar aircraft. Islamabad and Beijing are also collaborating to build an advanced fighter -- JF-17 or 'Thunder'.
ARBIL / Aswat al-Iraq: Prime Minister of Kurdistan region, Barham Saleh, said on Wednesday that he is ready to resign if the parliament asked him to do so.
This came during an extraordinary session at the parliament to discuss the recent developments and protests in Sulaimaniya.
In his brief word, he expressed sorry over the recent developments and conditions in Kurdistan, voicing his readiness to implement any decision taken by the parliament.
Acts of violence that accompanied the protests should not be repeated again, he said, noting that the protests represent an opportunity to make reforms and social justice.
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I would add that the three young men walking to the store were clearly looking for a confrontation. 3-2 and they still got their asses whooped. I bet it didn't help that the "ringleader" was on the floor crying.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Emirates 24/7] A man pulled out his gun, aimed at his cousin's head and fired. The gun did not fire so he chased him and fired again and again until a shot hit him in the head, 
[Maghrebia] Tunisia on Monday (March 7th) dissolved the secret police of ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's regime. A statement posted on the Tunisian Interior Ministry Facebook page said that the abolition of the State Security Department was "in line with the values and principles of the revolution" and part of the interim government's "commitment to respecting the law in letter and in practice, and to maintaining a climate of trust and transparency in the relationship with citizens".
Laurent Gbagbo
