The last of the Chambal region's feared dacoits, Balak Das Dimar, was killed in a gunfight with the police on Friday afternoon.
Inspector general of police (Chambal) DS Sagar said Balak and his close aide Dinesh Jatav were killed in Mahuda Mata Mandir in Chendva forests of Datia district in Madhya Pradesh, about 550 km from Indore.
A third member of the Balak's gang, Prema Dimar, was arrested after the shootout.
The police of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh had been hunting for Balak, who carried a reward of Rs. 50,000 on his head, for the past few months. Though he was involved in several abductions, he had never killed any of his hostages.
Chambal, which is at the confluence of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, was once home to a number of dacoits such as the legendary Man Singh, Phoolan Devi (who became an MP) and Paan Singh Tomar (whose life inspired a hit Bollywood movie of the same name).
A resident of Jakhoti village in Bhind district, Balak was close to several dacoits in the early 90s before he turned a police informer.
He used to harbor, and was very close to, dreaded dacoit Raghuveer Dimar. Later, he formed his own gang and started operating from Ratangarh in Datia.
The gang comprised Balak's son Kari Singh, brother Lal Singh and 10 others, two of them women whose role was to bargain for ransom money, police sources said.
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Dreaded Dacoit Das Dimar Drilled Dead
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[Breitbart] Dante Williams, 19, and his accomplice Jawan Craig walked into the Waffle House restaurant and "terrorized" the customers in 2012 intent on robbing it at gun point. Upon being approached by Williams, gun in hand, one of the patrons, Justin Harrison who also had a concealed weapon on him, but had an actual permit for it shot Williams in self-defense, killing him "almost instantly," according to a Fox News affiliate in North Carolina. Fox only recently acquired the video footage from the 2012 incident. No doubt about it, tougher more restrictive gun laws might have saved the assailant's life, therefore my hat tip goes to Mr. Williams and the NRA.
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They're working hard in the Beltway to make sure we're all criminals, so it won't be long before we're all law breakers. Why should special interest groups and illegals just get the waivers?
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The article of course mentions the lack of resources for the poor security. I would suggest a lack of common sense for putting a victim so close to a predator.
Yes, pop the rapist, like you SHOULD have done in the first place, if you weren't twink nancy. You just couldn't do it, well, you live with it then. His life is so valuable you just couldn't bring yourself to take it? So now you live with your decision. How does it feel being "merciful."? Isn't mercy and kind hearted tolerance and "doing the right thing" its own satisfaction?
have a good time. Put your butt in the air yourself. And then send in the Nurse.
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As they say in Texas, some men just need killin.
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Not only beacuse of what they did but beacuse of what they will do. BTW, in many european countries there are no life sentences. Even if you are a sreial killer, one day you will be released. THat is beacuse such inmates would be too dangerous for prison personnal if you don't give inamtes a reason not to make trouble. Too bad for the people who will meet with them once thre are rerlaesed. But Europeans are soooooooooo sophisticated.
This is not in some 3rd world banana republic, this is happening in the US, not overseas.
Hospitals across the country are struggling to deal with a shortage of one of their essential medical supplies. Manufacturers are rationing saline -- a product used all over the hospital to clean wounds, mix medications and treat dehydration. Now drug companies say they won't be able to catch up with demand until next year.
Scott Crandall, director of medical supply contracts at Novation, a group buying organization in Texas that manages contracts for 2,000 hospitals across the country says he's been hearing from manufacturers that increased FDA scrutiny is interfering with production, [combined with a more intense flu season last winter that greatly in erased usage and demand].
FDA has market orders. It's done to help "control" supply and demand. The original idea was that FDA didn't want excess capacity in manufacturing drugs since that would be wasteful. But now it means you can only produce as much of a drug or supply as your market order allows. If company A can't turn out enough saline bags, company B (which could) can't make up the difference, because they have a maximum on their market order.
And you thought the USA was still a market economy...
Crandall says inspections and maintenance require shutting down machines. And when machines aren't operating, less saline is getting shipped. Last winter, he says maintenance closures "slowed production down, 10 to 20 percent."
"There is no spot market. You can't buy it like pork bellies or grains or oil. You cannot go on a marketplace and order a certain amount," U.S. companies also don't have the capacity to ramp up production. They only have so many machines, and a lot of them are tied up producing other essential drugs. Building new facilities is hardly an option.
In part because of the market orders. In a true market, the pressure for more of something would lead a capitalist to build the capacity. But not here.
The burden ultimately falls on hospitals, clinics, and dialysis centers to come up with their own workarounds. And all that staff time adds up. Hospitals spend $216 million a year on the labor costs of managing drug shortages, according to Erin Fox, a professor at the University of Utah College of Pharmacy.
Now that the industry has indicated the saline shortage will extend through the end of the year, Fox estimates this will be the most expensive drug shortage in history."The suppliers have already signaled to the market that they plan on increasing price significantly," he said. "And when I say that, it could double and triple in some aspects."
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Expensive, but it can be done?
Just a matter of time, personnel, equipment and $. Cost per unit might well be 10X (or more) than what they are used to paying, however.
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Way back when, my wife had some of the earliest contact lenses. And found her eyes sensitive to the preservatives in the only available saline. So I got a bottle of reagent NaCl and a jug of distilled water and mixed it up myself a pint at a time. She can still see, so I guess I did it ok. Cost a lot less too, not insignificant to a starving grad student.
[Ynet] AL-ASEEL OIL FIELD - Egypt's oil minister said on Thursday that BP's $10 billion gas project, stalled for three years, had restarted and that production would begin in 2017, a sign of progress in efforts to ease the worst energy crunch in decades.
In another move that could help improve investor confidence, Sherif Ismail also said Egypt would pay $1.5 billion of the money it owed to foreign energy companies by the end of 2014.
Let us hope it actually works, and they don't skim it so badly nothing is left for the population.
[AnNahar] Saudi authorities threatened Thursday to expel non-Moslem foreigners who eat, drink or smoke in public during the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan, which begins this weekend.
I'd take a month long vacation. The Saudis won't be working, so why should anyone else?
The interior ministry urged non-Moslems to "respect the feelings of Moslems by refraining from eating, drinking or smoking in public places, streets and at work."
"They are not excused for being non-Moslem," said the statement carried by SPA state news agency, adding that "labor contracts stipulate respect for Moslem rites."
"Those who violate (that)... will face the necessary measures, including terminating work contracts and being deported," the statement added.
Oil-rich Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , which applies a strict version of sharia Islamic law, hosts more than nine million foreigners, mostly Asians.
During Ramadan, Moslems fast from food from dawn to dusk and strive to be more pious and charitable. They are are also required to abstain from drinking liquids, smoking and having sex.
The fast is one of the five main religious obligations under Islam.
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Now mind you, ARAMCO (Saudi National Oil Co) doesn't reduce quotas for non-muslim employees during Ramadan. All vacations cancelled, we need everybody. You boys keep working, we're sleeping in this month.
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Maybe they could also expel muslims who disrespect Ramalamadingdong, too?
[Iraq Sun] North Korea Wednesday warned the United States of "merciless" retaliation if it went ahead with the release of a Hollywood comedy that mocks its leader, Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... , calling the movie an "act of war".
"If the United States administration tacitly approves or supports the release of this film, we will take a decisive and merciless countermeasure," a front man for North Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
"The enemies have gone beyond the tolerance limit in their despicable moves to dare hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership."
The statement was carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). It didn't specifically mention the movie but was clearly referring to a Hollywood movie, "The Interview", about an liquidation of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
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The merciless midgets are restless. Nutjobs and fat boys.
Of course, with having to face a resolute man like Kerry even nutjob midgets might prove to be a problem. The US seems to have such wanks for leadership.
i mean, does anyone fear or respect anybody ( anybody at all ) in the US govt?
Or are they ALL wanks?
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"If the United States administration tacitly approves or supports the release of this film, we will take a decisive and merciless countermeasure."
Yeah, a comedy about Obama.
Wait, maybe that's already docudrama!
Well, at least a black comedy.
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The DPRK (the Norks) should immediately dispatch a strike team to Bengazhi to riot, burn the US embassy, and murder the ambassador.
That seems to be how things are supposed to be done in Obama's world...
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Maybe the Norks ought to make a comedy film that mocks Obama?
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Maybe the Norks ought to make a comedy film that mocks Obama?
Definitely a job for Peoples Shock Laughter and Gayety Batallion.
Rock rock: Who's thar?
The DPRK Laughter and Gayety Battalion
Go away
Rock rock: Who's thar?
Candygram from DPRK Sandshark friend
That looks like a dead parrot!
No it is North Korean Candygram, very tasty.
[AnNahar The price of global crude dipped under $114 Thursday as fears diminished somewhat over supply disruptions from Iraq while U.S. oil extended gains on looser U.S. export controls.
Benchmark U.S. crude for August delivery rose 25 cents per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 47 cents to settle at $106.50 on Wednesday. Brent crude, used to price international oils, eased 7 cents to $113.93 a barrel in London.
U.S. crude is rising after the Obama Administration opened the door to more oil exports by permitting some light oils to be defined as petroleum products like gasoline or diesel, which aren't subject to export restrictions. Analysts said the changes could add up to 1.1 million barrels of potential exports.
Brent crude edged lower from nine-month highs reached earlier this week. While concerns linger about violence in Iraq affecting global crude supplies, oil production and exports from the giant fields clustered in the country's south remain unaffected. July exports are expected to average about 2.57 million barrels per day, Platts forecasts.
In other energy futures trading on the Nymex:
— Wholesale gasoline barely budged $3.07 a gallon.
— Natural gas rose 2.3 cents to $4.58 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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The White House has set a fund up to ship diesel directly to Wonder Woman's Heros AKA John Mcain thus freeing up gas and diesel for the other Terrorist groups and even the new ones we ain't paying for yet!
Where their conscience is involved, no country lives their principles like Germany. Herzlichen Dank, Deutschland!
[Ynet] Germany is easing its immigration restrictions for Jews from Ukraine amid reports of an increase in anti-Semitic incidents there since the crisis broke out.
The German government said Thursday it will give priority to immigration applications from Ukrainian Jews over those from Jews of other ex-Soviet republics and will waive some of the stricter application rules that have been in place since 2005.
After the fall of Communism in 1989, Germany established a generous immigration program for Jews who wanted to leave the ex-Soviet Union because of wide-spread anti-Semitism there. It led to an influx of some 200,000 Jews in the last 25 years and the regulations were tightened in 2005.
The government said it is watching the situation for Jews in Ukraine closely.
[AnNahar] Pro-Russian rebels launched an attack on Thursday on a Ukrainian irregular troops unit in the heart of the eastern industrial city of Donetsk, an Agence La Belle France Presse news hound at the scene said.
At least 200 gunnies surrounded a compound housing a unit of Ukraine's National Guard and opened fire, despite a temporary truce that had been accepted by both sides.
A witness told AFP that the rebels, who had pulled an armored personnel carrier flying a Russian flag up to the compound, wanted the National Guard unit's immediate surrender.
"An ultimatum was issued by the fighters of the Donetsk People's Republic. The unit refused to leave. So (the rebels) opened fire," said Sergiy, 49, who said he supported the separatists' cause despite his son, a National Guard member, being stranded inside the compound.
The National Guard said in a statement that the rebels' initial attack had been repelled, and that none of its personnel had been killed or maimed.
It added that negotiations with rebel representatives were currently underway.
The National Guard unit that came under attack had not been involved in the government's 10-week campaign to stamp out the eastern insurgency, and was responsible for convoying prisoners in the region, witnesses said.
The truce is due to expire on Friday at 1900 GMT, and both Western powers and Russia are pressing the two sides to agree an extension.
Seventy years is a long time to forget people, events, the past. In India, it doesn't take that long. Even heroes are forgotten here in a matter of months, or a few years. In such a scenario, it's not surprising that nobody has remembered the 70th anniversaries of the twin battles of Imphal and Kohima. There have been no newspaper ads, no radio jingles, no special programme on TV, absolutely no mention of the battle or its veterans anywhere, save a few stray news reports. But that doesn't mean that the rest of the world is suffering from the same amnesia.
On Saturday, representatives from Britain, the United States, Australia and Japan, apart from an ever-shrinking group of veterans, would be part of a closing ceremony in Imphal of a three-month-long programme remembering those brave souls who had died fighting in two of the fiercest and most horrific battles mankind has ever known. There will be representatives of the Indian Army, too, who will quietly hope that someday their government would fully embrace these two battles as Indian, and acknowledge the role of the 2.5 million (25 lakh) soldiers who fought by the Allies' side in the Second World War. Independent India has never shown any care or concern about the war veterans, as they are a living memory of India's colonial past—men who fought a "foreign war" for a foreign government.
Yet the truth is the battles of Kohima and Imphal, in fact the whole of the Burma Campaign, was the swansong of the old Indian Army. It was for the first time that the Indian Army fought a foreign invader on Indian soil—a subtle transition for a force that for centuries had been an imperial strategic reserve, an instrument of colonial expansion and retention of the British Empire. And it was the first time that the seemingly invincible armies of the Empire of Japan were decisively beaten by the same Indian soldiers whom the Japanese perceived as lesser men.
"The two world wars showed the fighting quality of the Indian soldier to the world. Victory in the Second World War has been, by far, our biggest military achievement, yet nobody in India talks about it. It's such a sad state of affairs that the country that sent the largest voluntary army in history to fight that war has forgotten the sacrifices of the millions of men and women. We expect the Narendra Modi government to do something about it. Of course, we are late, but better late than never," said Lieutenant Colonel (retd) Anil Bhat, the former spokesperson of the defence ministry and Indian Army.
The two battles resulted out of the 1944 U-Go Offensive of the Japanese 15th Army under Lieutenant General Renya Mutaguchi. The plan was to conquer India and use it as a launchpad of future Japanese military campaigns. Imphal, which was heavily invested by the 15th and 33rd divisions of the Japanese 15th Army, was defended by the IV Corps of the British Fourteenth Army, comprising the 17th, 20th and 23rd Indian Infantry Divisions, including the 50th Indian Parachute Brigade.
Kohima, on the other hand, was defended by just 1,500 men of the 1st Assam Regiment, Assam Rifles, and 4th Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. But they held off 15,000 invading Japanese for two weeks until they were relieved by the 161st Indian Infantry Brigade, a vital component of the battle-hardened 5th Indian Division.
Incidentally, in Imphal, the Japanese were assisted by the Indian National Army, which had another objective apart from fighting: to try and make soldiers of the Indian Army defect. This strategy, of course, didn't work. There were a few desertions, no doubt, but for every Indian Army soldier who switched his loyalty, 68 remained loyal.
On July 3, 1944, the Japanese decided to retreat to Burma, but the retreat became a rout. Thousands of sick and wounded Japanese soldiers died by the wayside and were never cremated. London-based Japanese filmmaker, Junichi Kajioka, has made a film on this, named Imphal 1944. It will be screened in Imphal at the closing ceremony on Saturday.
"Many Japanese still come to Manipur every year in search of the bones of their family members who lost their lives in this war. The battles of Imphal and Kohima are not forgotten by people, and a lot of unburied souls are still sleeping in Northeast India and the border of Myanmar. I believe they are still being taken care of by the people here. My film aims to be a symbol of peace between Britain, Japan and Manipur. The film offers the world an important message of friendship between old enemies," Kajioka told this correspondent.
Incidentally, June 28 will also be the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the erstwhile Austro-Hungarian Empire in Sarajevo, an event that triggered the First World War where 1.3 million Indian soldiers participated. But that's another story for another time.
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The roots of politicisation of the army are to be found in Nehru's hatred for the man in uniform. Soon after Independence the first commander-in-chief of the Indian armed forces, General Sir Robert Lockhart, presented a paper outlining a plan for the growth of the Indian Army to Prime Minister Nehru.
Nehru's reply: "We don't need a defence plan. Our policy is non-violence. We foresee no military threats. You can scrap the army. The police are good enough to meet our security needs."
He didn't waste much time. On September 16, 1947, he directed that the army's then strength of 280,000 be brought down to 150,000. Even in fiscal 1950-51, when the Chinese threat had begun to loom large on the horizon, 50,000 army personnel were sent home as per his original plan to disband the armed forces.
After Independence, he once noticed a few men in uniform in a small office the army had in North Block, and angrily had them evicted.
It was only after the 1947-48 war in Jammu and Kashmir that he realised that the armed forces are an essential ingredient of any independent, sovereign nation. But he still wanted a compact army rather than great volume, whatever that meant. Defence requirements worked out after a careful assessment of threats carried no weight with him.
For some reason, he disliked Field Marshal K M Cariappa despite his excellent leadership during the 1947-48 war that saved Kashmir. But his attempts to supersede him and make General Rajendrasinhji the first commander-in-chief of India failed when Gen Rajendrasinhji declined.
Soon after Independence he separated the army, navy, and air force from a unified command and abolished the post of commander-in-chief of the armed forces, thus bringing down the status of the seniormost military chief.
He continued to demote the status of the three service chiefs at irregular intervals in the order of precedence in the official government protocol, a practice loyally continued by successive governments to the benefit of politicians and bureaucrats
"I remember many a time when our senior generals came to us, and wrote to the defence ministry saying that they wanted certain things... If we had had foresight, known exactly what would happen, we would have done something else... what India has learnt from the Chinese invasion is that in the world of today there is no place for weak nations... We have been living in an unreal world of our own creation."
Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajya Sabha, 1963
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I have read some of this before, for reasons crazy India unilaterally disarmed hoping against hope that Karma would prevail. The Chinese and Paks saw it for what it was, stupid.
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WWII would have gone very differently without the Indian Army. They were the largest volunteer army in history and served, with distinction, in Africa, Italy, the Middle East and the China-Burma-India theater.
[Ynet] India made a $550 million payment to Iran on Thursday to partly clear pending oil dues, under an interim deal that allows Tehran access to $4.2 billion in blocked funds globally, industry and government sources said.
Asian buyers such as Japan and South Korea have cleared some of their oil dues as per a payment schedule approved by world powers in a breakthrough deal with Iran in November.
Iran wanted the last three installments, totalling $1.65 billion, from India. New Delhi could not, however, remit the funds sooner as the banking channel to make payment had not been established.
The mechanism now in place allows Tehran to be rewarded for cooperating in talks with world powers over its nuclear program,
...For a given value of cooperating that incorporates taqqiya and/or kitman, of course...
while meeting a US insistence that the funds can be properly tracked, sources say.
"Yes, boss, the funds did indeed go into an Iranian government account. Where after that? Couldn't possibly say, sir. Gentlemen don't read another gentleman's mail, after all."
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yup, you buy something, you gotta pay for it.
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In a country with a shortage of available wives, this could prove very popular indeed. One only hopes the donors are given a thorough physical exam before being released to the machines.
[AnNahar] Earthquakes used to be almost unheard of on the vast stretches of prairie that unfold across the U.S. Midwestern states of Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma.
But in recent years, they have become commonplace. Oklahoma recorded nearly 150 between January and the start of May. Most were too weak to cause serious damage or endanger lives. Yet they've rattled nerves and raised suspicions that the shaking might be connected to the oil and gas drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, especially the wells in which the industry disposes of its wastewater.
Now governments in all three states are confronting the issue, reviewing scientific data, holding public discussions and considering new regulations.
The latest example comes Thursday in Oklahoma, where hundreds of people are expected to turn out for a meeting that will include the state agency that regulates oil and gas drilling and the Oklahoma Geological Survey.
States with historically few earthquakes are trying to reconcile the scientific data with the interests of their citizens and the oil and gas industry.
In recent weeks, nighttime shaking in Oklahoma City has been strong enough to wake residents. The state experienced 145 quakes of 3.0 magnitude or greater between January and May 2, 2014, according to the Oklahoma Geological Survey.
That compares with an average of two such quakes from 1978 to 2008.
North Texas has had 70 earthquakes since 2008 as reported by the U.S. Geological Survey, compared with a single quake, in 1950, reported in the region before then.
Regulators from each state met for the first time in March in Oklahoma City to exchange information on the quakes and discuss toughening standards on the lightly regulated business of fracking wastewater disposal.
"This is all about managing risks," said Oklahoma Corporation Commission front man Matt Skinner. "It's a little more complicated than that because, of course, we're managing perceived risks."
In Texas, residents from the town of Azle, which has endured hundreds of small quakes, went to the state Capitol earlier this year to demand action by the state's chief oil and gas regulator, known as the Railroad Commission. The commission hired the first-ever state seismologist, and politicians formed the House Subcommittee on Seismic Activity.
After Kansas recorded 56 earthquakes between last October and April, the governor appointed a three-member task force to address the issue.
Seismologists already know that hydraulic fracturing — which involves blasting water, sand and chemicals deep into underground rock formations to free oil and gas — can cause microquakes that are rarely strong enough to register on monitoring equipment.
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... fracking also generates vast amounts of wastewater, far more than traditional drilling methods. The water is discarded by pumping it into so-called injection wells, which send the waste deepunderground. No one knows for certain exactly what happens to the liquids after that. Scientists wonder whether they could trigger quakes by increasing underground pressures and lubricating faults.
Another concern is whether injection well operators could be pumping either too much water into the ground or pumping it at exceedingly high pressures.
Still, seismologists — and the oil and gas industry — have taken pains to point out that a clear correlation has not yet been established.
Nationwide, the United States has more than 150,000 injection wells, according to the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and only a handful have been proven to induce quakes.
Nonetheless, ExxonMobil is supporting a study by Southern Methodist University, company front man Richard Keil said.
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As I've said times before, in future time or coming decades fracking will be outlawed as "Crime agz the Planet/Environment" + Planet.
The greatest single threat to desired OWG-NWO vee GWCC remains the lack of common consensus among World Govts-Perts, i.e. "The Consensus is there is no Consensus".
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We've known for decades that injecting water into deep wells near faults can cause the faults to release their tension. Wastewater and pressure waves from fracking is doing the same thing. So, releasing the tension in minor faults before it builds up to high levels is ACTUALLY A GOOD THING. Would you rather have a 2-3 magnitude quake now or a 6-7 one later?
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Exactly what I thought Ship. Immediately wondered where this came from after reading the 1st sentence. What US citizen considers TX and OK to be "Midwestern" (some may consider Kansas to be that). Most everyone I know consider them to be Southwestern.
And, brick has a very valid point. While annoying, this may be a good thing, especially as fracking closes in on the New Madrid fault. That one is overdue for a BIG quake, according to geologists.
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Fracking and well treatment have been around for a while. The REAL enemies of progressives are actually a vibrant economy and prosperity. Fracking is simply an eco narrative.
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Silentbrick is right; some (40?) years ago we investigated the feasibility of 'managing' the stress on known and very dangerous faults - like the San Andreas - and concluded it could probably be done but would involve almost constant mild shaking, and also would transfer stress to other faults, subjecting them to more major failure. Worse, legal liability for all damage, real or imagined, from any quakes would fall onto the organizations and people trying to manage the program (that same logic is now hampering attempts to even predict or warn of earthquake hazard.)
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They keep discovering new faults in California all the time, that's cause they're looking. How long have they been looking in the Plains area? Low population density, lower attention span. Remember the New Madrid fault in the middle of America is basically known because humans were around to record it when the last big one went off.
States with historically few earthquakes..
There's that word again 'historically'. How long have they've been keeping systematic records? It's a problem when people suddenly start paying attention to stuff most people didn't notice before. see - Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic
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Yet they've rattled nerves and raised suspicions that the shaking might be connected to the oil and gas drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking
Idiots.
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Most edicational site on the web and its all from the comments and snark. Love Rantburg.
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.
I am certain options such as a kitchen knife bayonet and maple syrup bottle attack were well considered prior to Mr. Williams going kinetic. 
[Iraq Sun] 
North Korea
[AnNahar The price of global crude dipped under $114 Thursday as fears diminished somewhat over supply disruptions from Iraq while U.S. oil extended gains on looser U.S. export controls.
