[ARABNEWS] The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) in Dammam has locked away Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! a man who pretended to be a faith healer and was blackmailing three sisters by publishing their private photos with him.
The Haia officials ambushed the blackmailer after the women reported him to the relevant authorities.
The women believed in performing incantations and went to see the faith healer who deluded them into believing that they were possessed by jinn. He beat one of them on the head, performed incantation and gave her a ring, which he made her believe belonged to a king of jinn. He then took a photo of her in addition to downloading some private photos from her mobile.
He later used the photos to blackmail the woman into doing his bidding.
The man also deluded one of the other two sisters into believing that she was possessed and needed treatment at the hand of another man in a neighboring country.
He escorted her and her husband to the neighboring country where another fake faith healer examined her and upon return to the Kingdom he lived in the woman's house for couple of months to monitor her case closely.
While staying in her house, he took pictures of the woman and used them against her, which triggered family disputes between the woman and her husband leading to a divorce.
The Haia also discovered that the imposter had stolen gold and jewelry from a third sister after telling her she was possessed. He had also taken photos of her and threatened to show them to her relatives unless she bowed to his demands.
After a while, the women could not put up with the fear he created in their lives and decide to report him to the authorities who arrested him and put an end to the sufferings of the three sisters.
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Wow. Be a while before Naomi Wolf's pulse gets back to normal after that one. What a day for the outre'! I gotta bounce, but let's see... goof aloof proof roof spoof Tartuffe. Add conjs and preps (mine have been horrible lately anyway), stir, and enjoy.
Dick Metcalf, the guy from Guns & Ammo who was run off for his antigun views last year decides to go digging. I read a sympathetic article about him in a leftist publication (don't remember which one, sorry) in which he claimed he defended Second Amendment rights his whole life, so to be treated as he was.... He did defend Second Amendment rights and he lost over the past 20 years, which means he was the Washington Generals to the Harlem Gun Grabbers, a role he continues to play with abandon, which is what the Right to Keep and Bear Arms community did with him: abandon him.
Target has announced its policy with regard to open carry: Keep your guns out of our stores. Open carry of rifles, despite claims to the contrary is a far different animal than open carry of handguns. You may have the right to do it, which I support, but you gotta wonder if a handgun, which is much better suited for use inside a store would be a better open carry option than a rifle. I expect the counterprotest to Target's decision to fizzle out quickly.
Possible 2016 nominee for the Republican Party for president, Chris Christie avoids the inevitable sh*tstorm by vetoing magazine restrictions for New Jersey. Good for New Jersey, but only if New Jersey residents run off the politicians who wrote this law to begun with.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol and rifle ammunition were mixed.
Prices for used pistols were mixed while prices for used rifles were lower across the board, as prices for all used firearms continue to collapse. Don't be surprised to see used ARs going for under $500 average and used AR-10s for under $900 average by the end of the year.
Pistol Ammo
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each (After Unchanged (7 weeks))
Cheapest, 50 rounds: OD Green Supply, Tulammo, steel cased, .30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: I.Q. Metals, HSM, Factory seconds, .30 per round (From last week: +.01 After Unchanged (3 weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store brand, RNFP, Reloads, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store Brand, reloaded, .22 per round (From Last Week: -.02 Each)
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain From Last Week: Unchanged (2 weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: GO.D. Green Supply, Tula, Steel cased, FMJ, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store Brand, FMJ, Reloads, .20 per round (From Last Week: -.01 each (After Unchanged (2 weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: -.01
Cheapest, 50 rounds: SWVA, RWS, FMJ, .39 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 Rounds: LAX Ammunition, Blazer, Brass, JHP, .40 per round (From Last Week: +.08 Each (!))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Supply Company, Tula, steel cased, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Lucky Gunner, Wolf, steel cased, .26 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each )
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Barnaul, steel cased, .41 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Silver Bear, steel cased, .45 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
(From Q1, 2014: .25 Each, -.04 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf, steel case, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,080 rounds: SG Ammo, Red Army Standard, steel case, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged 2 Weeks)
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: -.03 Each (After Unchanged (2 weeks))
Cheapest, 50 rounds (2 box limit): AmmoMen, Remington, .07 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 325 rounds: Trop Gun Shop, Federal Champion, .10 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged)
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $619 Last Week Avg: $620 (-)
California (204, 206): Del-ton AR-15: $650
Texas (314, 330): Core 15 (M4 Pattern): $650
Pennsylvania (154, 155): Palmetto State Armory: $620
Virgina (210, 214): Mixed Build: $625
Florida (413, 402): Smith & Wesson M&P15: $550
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,100 Last Week Avg: $1,210 (-)
California (43, 43): Iron Ridge Arms: $1,100 (Same Gun)
Texas (60, 52): DPMS Oracle: $900 (!)
Pennsylvania (23, 26): Smith & Wesson M&P 10: $1,200 (Same Gun)
Virginia (38, 40): Mixed Build: $1,300
Florida (76, 76): DPMS: $1,000 (Same Gun)
7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $505 Last Week Avg: $524 (-)
California (43, 43): Saiga: $550
Texas (62, 54): Zastava M-70: $500 (Same Gun)
Pennsylvania (57, 50): Saiga: $500 (Same Gun)
Virginia (80, 76): WASR : $520
Florida (126, 125): CAI Vz 2008: $475 (!)
7.62x54mm (Dragunov Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,134 Last Week Avg: $1,134 ()
California (0): None Available
Texas (0): None Available
Pennsylvania (1, 1): Romak PSL: $1,400 (Same Gun)
Virginia (2, 1): Romak PSL: $1,200
Florida (7, 6): Romak PSL: $800 (!)
Pistols
.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $417 Last Week Avg: $420 (-)
California (152, 145): Rock Island Armory: $460
Texas (212, 216): Tisas: $400
Pennsylvania (190, 197): American Tactical: $400
Virginia (180, 176): Charles Daly: $425
Florida (385, 388): High Standard: $400
9mm Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic Average Price: $427 Last Week Avg: $434 (-)
California (150, 146): Smith & Wesson SD9VE : $375 (Same Gun)
Texas (328, 314): Glock 26: $450
Pennsylvania (203, 209): Glock 19: $400 (!)
Virginia (235, 253): Glock 17: $460
Florida (492, 488): Glock 25 : $450
.40 caliber S&W (Glock and other semiautomatic) Average Price: $420 Last Week Avg: $410 (+)
California (102, 96): Glock 23: $450 (Prolly Same Gun)
Texas (144, 136): Glock 27: $425
Pennsylvania (117, 112): Glock 22: $400 (!)
Virginia (120, 125): Glock 22: $450
Florida (237, 222): Sig Sauer P250: $375 (Same Gun)
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In case you were wondering why the Obamacare law was a lousy idea from the outset, consider that antigun fascists want to use the medical profession to help statists seize guns
They have been at this for awhile now. In the past, they have tried to define "firearm-related" deaths as an epidemic. No matter what "firearm-related" deaths means. Their statistics are flawed.
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I have a side-by-side 20 gauge shotgun x 52 caliber rifle made in the 1840's. It's a long gun and I love it. It's percussion.
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In case you were wondering why the Obamacare law was a lousy idea from the outset, consider that antigun fascists want to use the medical profession to help statists seize guns
First let me apologize to those of you who smoke.
But over the course of my many years on this planet I have known very few people who died or even suffered from gunshot wounds. Well, maybe there were a few guys I knew in high school who didn't make it back from Vietnam. But I've seen a hell of a lot of people get sick and die from smoking cigarettes. Funny, how I never hear Baraq say anything about that.
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Yeah, the thing about cancer patients is that they die quietly and it usually doesn't make the news unless it's in the obits. It's certainly not on the front page, unless it's Tony Gwynn. Same thing with emphysema. Just not newsworthy. You could say it's their own damn fault because they knew the danger but by the time they get out of high school they're so badly addicted they can't quit. You just know that along with his chooming activities in high school, Baraq was smoking cigarettes as well. It'll be bigger news than Tony Gwynn when he gets sick.
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It's a nasty, expensive and deadly habit. I have missed it every morning for 15 years.
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My Dada had a wooden case that held a carton of cigarettes, with a little ditty on it -
Tobacco is a dirty weed
I like it
It satisfies no normal need
I like it
It makes you thin, it make you lean
It takes the hair right off your bean
It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen
I like it.
He quit in 1960; I quit for the third and last time in 1989. I still dream about smoking....
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A loong explication on the ongoing controversy over Diana West and her book American Betrayal. Part II will be tomorrow, but can be seen at American Thinker.
My opinion is that West was treated poorly by Ronald Radosh and Davis Horowitz, but that she has also said some dumb things as well. (Don't recall what they were, but the words were cringing.)
"With the publication of my second book, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character, I am looking forward to a vigorous debate about my findings," Diana West wrote when the book was released.
What followed was not exactly what she had in mind.
On August 9, 2013, after the book had received largely glowing reviews and endorsements from conservative writers, Frontpage Magazine published a blistering attack by Ronald Radosh, "McCarthy on Steroids." The review questioned not only the author's conclusions, but her competence.
This kicked off the nastiest internecine conflict on the right in recent memory, pitting, in the eyes of their adversaries, supine "court historians" against wild-eyed "yellow journalists." Embroiled in the controversy were, among others, two groups of individuals who, in some cases, had been barely aware of each other -- critics of Islam and writers on Soviet subversion in the U.S. in the '30s and '40s.
These groups did not comprise two hostile two camps. Andrews Bostom and McCarthy wrote in support of West, the former entering into a heated exchange with John Earl Haynes. But M. Stanton Evans, author of an exhaustive study of McCarthy and a survey of the influence of Russian agents in the U.S., was also a stalwart supporter of West, while Rebecca Bynum, editor of the website New English Review, an inveterate critic of Islam, lambasted the book. Sites took take sides: Frontpage Magazine, First Things, and National Review supported Radosh; Breitbart and Gates of Vienna and others backed West. P.J. Media featured articles from both camps. On American Thinker a guardedly friendly, though critical review by Bernie Reeves was followed by attacks by others.
The distinguishing feature of the controversy was the venom directed at West.
Of course, I've always thought Tailgunner Joe was right about the influences of the Communist party in the US. And I would say the smearing he took at the hands of the media only reinforced that opinion in me.
His tactics stunk but he was right about what he said was going on in Hollywood and the Media and in the colleges and universities.
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I thought the soviet files released afyer the wall fell pretty much confirmed Joe was right.
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Correct. KGB files declassified after the collapse of the USSR (Venona cables) proved that Comintern infiltration went much further than even the most paranoid anti-communists suspected. But it was predictable, to a few careful observers. Distinguished historian Robert Conquest subsequently quipped that he would re-title his book "I F***ing Told You So."
I still don't get why everyone was so upset with West. I never read her book, but what did she do that was so wrong and awful? Seems to me that leftists, deprogrammed or not, are just argumentative, unpleasant people who can't stop themselves from ripping each others' throats out over trivial doctrinal deviations.
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It is my understanding that less than one percent of the Vanona cables have been decrypted. I wonder what happened to the others? Wouldn't it make sense for the NSA (or Defense Intelligence, or FBI, or something) to make them available to everyone, especially those interested in cryptography?
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If you turned them over to NSA all of the juicy stuff would be lost due to a hard drive crash about 30 seconds after some interesting names appeared in the documents.
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[ARABNEWS] Security authorities at the Grand Mosque in Makkah incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... a 40-year-old man wearing unusual attire inside the mosque on Tuesday and Wednesday. The individual was later transferred to the Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution.
Lt. Col. Atti Al-Qurashi, official front man of Makkah police, said the individual entered the Grand Mosque in Makkah on Tuesday evening unusually dressed causing many pilgrims to gather around him to take photos resulting in congestion and disturbance to other worshippers.
He said that the man refused to heed calls by security officers to wear more appropriate attire to avoid disturbing the pilgrims but he returned on Wednesday evening dressed in the same outfit. The security officers then arrested him and referred his case to the Bureau for further legal action.
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I have a "Lookin' for a Kegger" suit just like that one!
[ARABNEWS] A mentally ill Gulf national wreaked havoc among pilgrims in Makkah after he attacked two Asian pilgrims living in Ajyad with a knife, security sources said.
What was he wearing?
One of his victims sustained deep wounds and has been hospitalized.
Police rushed to the area after receiving word that someone was stabbed in front of a hotel in the city.
Police then overpowered the man, who was holding the knife at the time, receiving the applause of hotel residents. Police are questioning the man to determine the motive behind the attack.
"The two victims have been taken to hospital and their condition is stable," said Lt. Col. Aati Al-Qurashi, Makkah police front man.
Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him.... police have locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! four Arab children aged between 10 and 17 for allegedly stealing cell phones from pilgrims.
"Criminal investigation officers arrested the four children and handed them over to police," a source said on Wednesday.
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Scuttlebutt from Africans I know: The Saudis are abusive toward African pilgrims, especially the women. Saudis give Africans the Jim Crow treatment, and go out of their way to harass African women.
[Dhaka Tribune] Allegedly tortured by Kotwali police, Samiuzzaman Uzzal, 32, an activist of Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal in Jessore town, died at Jessore Central Jail yesterday.
Sources in the victims family as well as in BNP said Uzzal, who was also former joint secretary of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal ...student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)... 's Jessore unit, died after being tortured by the police and due to the negligence of the jail authority. However,
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[Dhaka Tribune] Seasonal extortionists are allegedly back in business ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, as businessmen and traders in the capital are receiving phone calls where the callers demand extortion, claiming to be top criminals.
A group of muggers, allegedly backed by some notorious criminals who went into hiding during the massive crackdown by law enforcers, are said to be behind such acts.
The names the callers mention while demanding extortion include Shahid Shahadat, Jishan, Subrata and Bikash, said intelligence sources.
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[NPR.ORG] China's president is in Seoul to meet his South Korean counterpart. In a not-so-veiled gibe at North Korea, the two leaders repeated their opposition to nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula.
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See also DEFENCE.P[K/FORUMS > SEOUL-BEIJING WARMTH + SEOUL-TOKYO CHILL = US IMPOTENCE - FORBES.
Again, NOKOR won't have any NucWeaps unless overlord China allows it.
NOKOR'S alleged Tacnukes = iff like Cold War-era, Soviet East Euros [WARSAW PACT], would still be under Chinese, NOT NOKOR, control.
[BLOOMBERG] The U.S. will remain the world's biggest oil producer this year after overtaking 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... and Russia as extraction of energy from shale rock spurs the nation's economic recovery, Bank of America Corp. said.
U.S. production of crude oil, along with liquids separated from natural gas, surpassed all other countries this year with daily output exceeding 11 million barrels in the first quarter, the bank said in a report today. The country became the world's largest natural gas producer in 2010. The International Energy Agency said in June that the U.S. was the biggest producer of oil and natural gas liquids.
"The U.S. increase in supply is a very meaningful chunk of oil," Francisco Blanch, the bank's head of commodities research, said by phone from New York. "The shale boom is playing a key role in the U.S. recovery. If the U.S. didn't have this energy supply, prices at the pump would be completely unaffordable."
Oil extraction is soaring at shale formations in Texas and North Dakota as companies split rocks using high-pressure liquid, a process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The surge in supply combined with restrictions on exporting crude is curbing the price of West Texas Intermediate, America's oil benchmark. The U.S., the world's largest oil consumer, still imported an average of 7.5 million barrels a day of crude in April, according to the Department of Energy's statistical arm.
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And gasoline is STILL over $4.00 a gallon in Californicate.
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The wells aren't exactly cheap.
Think local, sell global.
We can have cheaper gasoline for awhile if it gets regulated, then it will be cheaper and scarce, it being difficult to get those thieving oilmen to work for a loss.
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It's not that gas is expensive, it's that the dollar has been ruthlessly debased by unending 'quantitative easings'*. Commodities stay generally relative to each other, it's the fools in control of the printing press and modern equivalent thereof that seem to generate an infinite amount of monetary units without backing.
* when the speculative game ended in 2008, a lot of institutions were stuck with vastly overpriced paper whose assets that paper reflected lost half or more of their value. After the Treasury and Fed have inflated the dollar, that paper is now on par with its face value. So while the people at the Treasury and Fed can go back and work at those institutions, the rest of us are stuck with an 'inflation' tax in the cost of those things necessary for daily living (which by the way, are not for some reason calculated in the official inflation index).
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I am very happy that America has begun its energy independence but we could of accelerated this with a focus on coal and nuclear as well. Additionally cooperating with Canada to bring oil and natural gas South would help as well.
But remember this we send billions each month to the Middle East for oil and they hate us. Wait until we shut them off and close them out of the financial markets. They are going to treat us like Jews.
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Extraction is one thing; getting it to market is another. In addition to the non-Keystone pipeline, the railroads are getting another beating or two; the Bakken crude has been identified as more flammable than non-fracked crude. As a result, in addition to mandating the DOT 112/114 standard tank cars ( of which there aren't enough and the backlog for manufacturing runs out a couple years) now there is a proposed rule that will require the oil unit trains to run at only 30 mph and on designated (less populated) routes. This will only further clog an already jugged up system. And will not help prices.
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Trust me all of the rules the EPA and OSHA are throwing at the transport of oil and oil based products has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with limiting their ability to reach the market.
The federal government and most Democratic run (ruined?)states make considerable revenue off gasoline and oil sales taxes and excise taxes. To lower the price of gasoline would gut many state revenue streams.
It is all about the taxes and the need to feed the welfare state beast.
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Also don't forget the Soddies still have plenty of money to buy US politicians.
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..and their handlers in the media and celebrities to manipulate the public mood.
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North Dakota is currently "flaring" aka "wasting" 30% of the natural gas produced from its oil wells due to lack of pipeline capacity and gas-processing infrastructure. Per WSJ: North Dakota wells burned off 10.3 billion cubic feet of natural gas in April, according to state data. That amounts to nearly $50 million worth of natural gas at spot-market prices. ND Industrial Commission guidelines, which were proposed by the industry earlier this year, set targets for flaring at 23% of all gas produced by January 2015
h/t Gates of Vienna
Three youths attacked University of Macedonia professor Nikos Marantzidis in Thessaloniki on Tuesday.
Marantzidis, also an author, was with a student at a local cafe when three young men approached him and voiced their objections to the professor writing articles criticizing the left.
According to Marantzidis, he responded by saying he was willing to discuss the matter with the three men but one of them punched him in the head and the other two kicked him when he fell to the ground.
The three assailants ran off and Marantzidis was taken to the hospital for treatment.
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Yep. Don't forget about busing thugs to someone's home only to frighten their kids just back from school. Remember these are the same people who demanded civility from others.
[Iran Press TV] Ukrainian army has fired artillery into residential regions of Luhansk and left power stations damaged.
The attack happened on Friday night and cut off power supplies in the eastern parts of Luhansk.
"As a result of damage done to a high-voltage transmission line, the residents of the Zhovtnevy district were disconnected from power supplies," the press service of the Luhansk Town Hall said.
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[Pak Daily Times] LAHORE: A 35-year-old man was axed in the name of honour in Green Town police precincts on Friday.
The police said that Imtiaz, of Nawaz Morr, had nursed grudge against Shafique, a motor-mechanic by profession from Nawab Town, for developing relations with the wife of his elder brother Faryad.
He said that Faryad and Shafique were friends over the last three or four years. Faryad married "A" (fictitious name) eight month ago. In the meanwhile, Shafique developed relations with her.
On Friday, Imtiaz caught Shafique dating his sister-in-law and got infuriated. He attacked Shafique with an axe and wounded him. The injured was taken to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. The police sent the body for an autopsy. No case has been registered as yet.
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Should this have occurred in the U.S., there would be a huge cry for gun control no matter that an ax was used.
[AnNahar] The lingering electricity crisis is likely to worsen with no solution in the near future as the country is bracing for a summer drought exacerbated by massive influx of Syrian refugees. According to As Safir newspaper published on Thursday, rationing in Beirut's southern suburbs is daily between 10 and 12 hours while in the South and the Bekaa is between 12 and 14 and reaches around 20 hours in some areas in the North.
A parliamentary source told the daily that politicians should be clear and direct with the Lebanese concerning the electricity crisis.
"There is no near future solution."
The sources said that electricity will not be back 24/7 in 2015 as some expected, advising citizens to buy their own generators or subscribe with the one in their neighborhood.
Leb is in need of 2,500 megawatts of electricity while the current production is only 1,500 MW. The daily reported that any unexpected malfunction in one of the power plants in Leb will increase the size of the problem.
Yes, that's usually the case...
The report added that the state spends yearly around two billion dollars on electricity while the rationing hours keep on increasing.
The newspaper reported that drought reached several areas and villages as the dramatic situation is exacerbated by waste and an influx of Syrian refugees. The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR warned in February that the presence of more than a million Syrian refugees alongside four million Lebanese would seriously deplete the country's renewable water resources.
People in Beirut and several areas have already been forced to buy water from private suppliers and farmers are complaining about crop losses.
MP Mohammed Qabbani expected in comments published in As Safir the "situation to worsen in August and to hit bottom rock in September and October."
He noted that the Public Works and Energy Parliamentary Committee, which he heads, formed in April a crisis group to deal with the summer shortages, but nothing has been accomplished.
That's the usual result of a parliamentary committee...
"Swift measures should be taken to deal with the situation," Qabbani said, calling for "courageous and painful decisions."
None of which are allowed to affect his constituents...
Leb's meteorological service says the country has had just 431 mm (17 inches) of precipitation since September, less than half last year's 905.8 mm and far below the yearly average of 812 mm.
Ordinarily, Lebanese farmers irrigate their fields by digging channels that divert water from local rivers or wells that fill with rainwater. But the rain and snow that usually feed the rivers and wells never arrived.
The country has just two dams and some 70 percent of the water that flows through its 16 rivers ends up in the Mediterranean.
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.
By Chris Covert
[ARABNEWS] Security authorities at the Grand Mosque in Makkah 
[Dhaka Tribune] Seasonal extortionists are allegedly back in business ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, as businessmen and traders in the capital are receiving phone calls where the callers demand extortion, claiming to be top criminals.
[BLOOMBERG] The U.S. will remain the world's biggest oil producer this year after overtaking 
[Iran Press TV] Ukrainian army has fired artillery into residential regions of Luhansk and left power stations damaged.
