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'Free Press' is about the technology of the times, not about corrupt institutions who misappropriate the term. 'Free Press' is fundamentally about the free flow of information via the contemporary technology, today accomplished by the internet. It's also why the oligarchy is working as hard as possible to control it.
[Breitbart] Two people were killed and five injured, three critically, after a pair of shootings outside rap concerts in Toronto and Holmdel, New Jersey late Monday night into Tuesday.
A man and a woman were killed after an early-morning shooting at an OVO Fest after-party hosted by rapper Drake at the Muzik nightclub in Toronto, reports Billboard. Three others were critically injured and transported to local hospitals.
"What occurred originally in the bar area had spilled out into the streets so south and north of this area we do have three separate crime scenes," Toronto Police Superintendent Frank Bergen told the outlet. "At this point we do know for certain that one or two [shootings] were in the nightclub and we believe the others were outside of that area. This is all unfolding now and we're doing our investigation."
It was not immediately clear whether Drake was present at the club during the shooting. The rapper was hosting the event, described as the "official OVO Fest after-party with music by Charlie B."
[THESMOKINGGUN] A knife-wielding Florida man who attempted a carjacking Thursday night quickly discovered that the vehicle he targeted was an undercover cop car occupied by a pair of armed plainclothes detectives, according to an arrest affidavit.
Dominique Albert, 27, allegedly approached the car on a St. Petersburg street around 9:45 PM and yanked open the passenger door. Albert, pictured at right, leaned into the auto while holding a steak knife in his right hand.
While Albert's would-be victims were initially startled by the interloper, they quickly rallied.
"Police!," shouted Detective Daniel Torok from the driver's seat as he drew his handgun and leveled it at Albert, who "turned and fled on foot."
Torok and his partner then chased after Albert, who dropped his knife during the pursuit. When the cops caught up with Albert, he "fought Police with violence, but was finally taken into custody after a lengthy fight." Albert, who allegedly continued to struggle after being handcuffed, stopped resisting after a backup officer "deployed his Taser."
A search of Albert turned up two other "large, fixed blade knives," police reported.
Charged with carjacking, resisting arrest, and aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, all felonies, Albert is locked up on $170,000 bond.
At the time of the alleged carjacking, the hapless Albert was free on bond in connection with an arrest last month for shoplifting at a Walmart store.
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[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] An Arizona man who admitted to decapitating his wife and her two dogs in a bloody incident last month in Phoenix told authorities he was attempting "to get the evil out" of her, according to court documents released on Monday.
Kenneth Dale Wakefield, 43, also told police that he had smoked marijuana and the designer drug Spice about an hour before the gruesome killings in a Phoenix apartment on the morning of July 25, the documents showed.
Wakefield, a transient with a history of mental illness who also maimed himself in the incident, was booked into a Maricopa County jail Aug. 1 on one count of first-degree murder and two counts of animal cruelty after being released from a local hospital. He is being held on $2 million bond.
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Bluf: [Washington Post] In an unusual lawsuit filed July 7, Bosley and Nance-Holt claim their civil rights have been violated by three suburban governments that they say do not adequately regulate gun shops near the Chicago border. The suit argues that weapons sold at these stores are responsible for too much of the violence that disproportionately afflicts this poor, black corner of Chicago.
Critics say the two mothers are stretching the definition of civil rights too far, and are urging the court to dismiss the case. Either way, the suit is timely: Although Chicago recorded the fewest killings in nearly 50 years in 2013, the homicide rate has since been on the rise, darting up 20 percent in the first half of this year.
Together, they blame the three villages, Lyons, Lincolnwood and Riverdale, for what they call a "flood" of guns into the city. So black urban crime is now to be blamed on white suburbia. Ok, I get it.
[Jackson, MS Clarion-Ledger] WDAM reporter Ryan Moore is reporting that Perry County sheriff deputies are questioning a pair of white male suspects who "pulled up from driving another truck" while authorities were at a residence investigating a vehicle matching the description of the truck used in the Camp Shelby shooting.
Tuesday - 2:22 p.m. update
While Camp Shelby soldiers participated in an exercise drill, an unidentified pickup truck passed by and fired shots. Lt. Col. Christian Patterson, director of public affairs at the Mississippi Military Department, said that no one was injured and that the soldiers on site reported the incident to civilian authorities. Patterson said that the incident was not being viewed as an active shooter situation and that increased security measures have been taken recently to protect soldiers. The Perry County Sheriff's office is handling the case. No indication of skin color in crime reporting generally indicates non-white, but you probably knew that already.
It also could mean nobody got a good look at the miscreants, and so nobody knows.
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We lost a troop up at Fort Drum one year. Bear hunters getting a jump on season, shot blindly into troops maneuvering at night. Never found the miscreant.
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We lost a troop up at Fort Drum one year. Bear hunters getting a jump on season, shot blindly into troops maneuvering at night. Never found the miscreant.
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I remember seeing this. The lead in was, the only reason they could use this particular plane was, every time it went out, it got shot up, so the maintenance guys were stripping it for parts.
Guess what happened when they took it out?
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An airplane linked to an FBI surveillance program that tracks alleged terrorists, spies and criminals has flown at least seven times over Metro Detroit, including two lengthy flights over the Dearborn area last weekend, according to public records.
The 2010 single-engine Cessna Skylane is part of a small air force operated by the FBI that uses high-tech cameras and sometimes cellphone surveillance technology.
The Cessna flew over the Dearborn area in slow-speed, counterclockwise orbits several miles wide and about one mile above the ground.
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An airplane linked to an FBI surveillance program that tracks alleged terrorists, spies and criminals...
And since it is estimated that we all commit at least 3 felonies a day because laws are so complex and convoluted this means they are tracking you comrade.
Critic Roger Ebert defended Moore's handling of the timeline as an artistic and stylistic choice that had less to do with his credibility as a filmmaker and more to do with the flexibility of film as a medium to express a satiric viewpoint.
In other words is a Documentary - but if you challenge its accuracy then its only a Satiric Opinion.
Shades of 'False - but Accurate!'.
And wouldn't they be able to track Al-Moore from orbit?
(Sorry just had to comment on the linked article...).
On April 29 TCU sent Harry a letter accusing him of violating the university’s code of student conduct – specifically he was accused of “infliction of bodily or emotional harm” and “disorderly conduct.”
Once you've removed the liberty to hurt someone else's feelings you've removed freedom of speech. Since the actions of this Dean Wormer Robinson have hurt my feelings and I'm no closer connected to TCU than the complaintant in this case I think he should write a letter to say how he should be punished, admit he's guilty before adjudication and perform sixty hours of community service. When he appeals he can appear before a board of Rantburgers.
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In 2000 Robert Mugabe shocked the world when he made dramatic changes to land ownership laws in Zimbabwe which resulted in thousands of white Zimbabwean farmers being forced to give up their farms and many to leave the country.
Those white farmers owned 70% of the most arable land in the country which they had inherited from a colonial past built on racial hierarchy.
But now the tide is shifting again. Mugabe’s people have hinted strongly, for the first time, that farmers can return–at least some of them. This will be some 15 years after the Zimbabwe government began seizing their land.
A few selected white farmers will be granted security of tenure on farms regarded to be ‘of strategic economic importance.’ Meanwhile black beneficiaries are expected to start paying a small rental fee per acre that will be used in part to compensate the more than 4,000 evicted white farmers according to the country’s minister of lands, Douglas Mombeshora.
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A few selected white farmers will be granted security of tenure on farms regarded to be ‘of strategic economic importance.’
Unfortunately, the safari business and guide remittances are a bit off following the Cecil episode. Many of the white farmers killed defending their properties, or died whilst living elsewhere, will likely not be able to participate in Mugabe's new programme. Still others may simply do as 'Uncle Ron' did and tell President for life Mugabe to FOAD.
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While talks intended to reduce the presence of heavy weapons under 100mm in southeastern Ukraine have collapsed, a new proposal in the Minsk peace talks for a buffer zone is set to be considered later this month, according to Russian language news accounts.
The chief negotiator for the Lugansk People's Republic, Vladislav Danevo said in remarks on Tuesday that while talks regarding removal of heavy weapons under 100mm have collapsed, a proposal for the creation of a buffer zone between the two combatants has shown more promise, according to a news account which appeared in korrespondent.net.
Danevo said that parts of the agreement were agreed to on Monday, but separate sections, including language on where those weapons should be withdrawn to, were the cause of the collapse of talks on the matter. That said, consideration of the proposal is frozen until August 26th, which he labeled as "a clear sabotage."
At the ongoing Minsk peace talks, an unidentified spokesman for the Belorussian foreign ministry has indicated that much of the agreement has been agreed to, with two of the issues remaining between the two combatants to include Kiev's insistence that the removal of weapons take place everywhere except for four places on the line of contact. Rebel negotiators want weapons removal to take place everywhere.
According to a news account in regnum.ru, members of the contact group for safety, which consists of envoys from Germany, Russia, France and Ukraine, will continue to discuss the issue of removal of weapons from the front lines. The announcement was made only hours after Denevo's remarks.
Fighting in Donetsk, Lugansk
Ukrainian media claims that rebel artillery are hitting targets in several sectors of western Donetsk city, according to a news account in tsensor.net, mostly firing at night.
Rebel artillery struck the Ukrainian strongholds of Peski, Avidevka and Opytnoye using 120mm mortar fire and 122mm and 152mm artillery fire, and at Marinka, using tank gunfire (125mm). The report said rebel artillery fired on Ukrainian positions for 18 hours. A separate report said the artillery fire came from the airport, which the rebels have held since February.
The report also said that rebels fired on Leninskiy, near Artemovsk and other locations in Lugansk. A rebel reconnaissance force was stopped by Ukrainian artillery fire in Lugansk as well, and then forced back.
According to an official news release, the Donetsk ministry of defense said that Ukrainian forces fired on rebel forces a total of 45 times, using a total of more than 200 shells. The most intense bombardment took place in Gorlovka, concentrating around the village of Golmovsky. According to Alexander Matyushin, a rebel formation commander who writes for Russian media, the artillery which hit Gorlovka originated from Dzerzhinsk and Svetlodarsk.
The shelling has disrupted electrical power to the city, but reports are that no new damage has been found. Ukrainian artillery fire usually takes place at night, according to the news release. A total 130 rounds hit the city during the night of August 3rd to August 4th.
The Donetsk ministry of defense reported that Ukrainian artillery hit rebel positions at Kuybishevsky, Oktyabrsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk city, and at Aleksandrovka, Kalinovka, Spartak and Zaitsevo. One rebel was wounded and another was killed in the shelling. A later report said that an unidentified civilian female was killed in the Kuybishevsky district. The shelling in Kuybishevsky district lasted more than two hours.
Rebel media also has reported a fire fight between units of the Ukrainian Army and the Ukrainian "Aidar" volunteer battalion at Stanitsa Luganskaya, on the Northern Donetsk River in Ukrainian held Lugansk. Weapons used in the confrontation include mortars, RPGs and small arms fire, and began at a regional headquarters. No reports on casualties have been made available.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraina by clicking here.
MOSCOW (AaayPeee) -- Russia has submitted its bid for vast territories in the Arctic to the United Nations, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
The ministry said in a statement that Russia is claiming 1.2 million square kilometers (over 463,000 square miles) of Artic sea shelf extending more than 350 nautical miles (about 650 kilometers) from the shore.
Russia, the U.S., Canada, Denmark and Norway have all been trying to assert jurisdiction over parts of the Arctic, which is believed to hold up to a quarter of the planet's undiscovered oil and gas. Rivalry for Arctic resources has intensified as shrinking polar ice is opening up new opportunities for exploration.
Assuming claims of global warming are true, of course.
Russia was the first to submit its claim in 2002, but the U.N. sent it back for lack of evidence.
The ministry said that the resubmitted bid contains new arguments. "Ample scientific data collected in years of Arctic research are used to back the Russian claim," it said.
Russia expects the U.N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf to start looking at its bid in the fall, the ministry said. More @ link.
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Lest we fergit, Darth Vlad repor angrily threatened both Turkey = Erdogan, + the KSA + any aligned, for their alleged support of the ISIS/ISIS.
Can't really blame Vlad - RUSSNAV MISSLES DON'T LAUNCH WHILE RUSS WARSHIPS RUST AWAY PIERSIDE OR CATCH FIRE, WHILE RUSSIAN AIR FARCE TACAIR + HELOS ARE ROUTINELY FALLING OUT OF THE SKY DUE TO POOR MAINTENANCE. VLAD STILL HAS THE RUSSIAN ARMY BUT AS POTEN AFFECTED BY THE HIGH BIRTH RATE OF RUSSIA'S MUSLIMS OVER COMING YEARS.
IOW, Russia's time window for preventing direct andor indirect Muslim takeover of the country may be more limited than we in the West think, + VLAD KNOWS IT!?
[Rooters] Russian President Vladimir Putin told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday that the deal on Iran's nuclear program would improve security in the Middle East and guaranteed that Tehran would not acquire nuclear arms.
Israel plans to lobby the U.S. Congress not to approve the agreement clinched between Iran and world powers in Vienna earlier this month after more than a decade of negotiations.
Under the deal, the United States, European Union and United Nations will lift sanctions against Iran in exchange for Tehran agreeing to long-term curbs on its nuclear program that the West and Israel have feared was aimed at creating a nuclear bomb.
Putin told Netanyahu the deal included "solid guarantees that the Iranian nuclear program will be exclusively peaceful" and that implementing it would "positively impact the security and stability of the Middle East", according to a Kremlin statement.
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The Bammer, SecState Kerry, + Darth Vlad are all on the same page as per promoting the Iran Nuke Deal.
* RUSSIA TODAY > "WIDOUT IRAN DEAL, THERE WILL BE ANOTHER WAR" - OBAMA.
* TOPIX, LUCIANNE > OBAMA TO ISRAELIS: ACCEPT IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL, OR ELSE "ROCKETS WILL RAIN DOWN ON TEL AVIV".
ISRAEL = US = choice is only between making mutual peace + diplomatic compromise wid Iran, or risking major war wid Iran.
VERSUS
* LUCIANNE > BARACK OBAMA ADMITS IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL WILL MEAN MORE MONEY FOR [Iran-supported]TERROR GROUPS, e,g, Hezbollah.
* BLOOMBERG > IRAN REBUKES US FOR [WH Official's] SUGGESTION THAT IAEA [inspection data] COULD AID MILITARY STRIKES, agz Iran's NucProgs.
* LUCIANNE > [Washington Free Beacon] IRAN WARNS OF "THIRD WORLD WAR", as sparked or caused by Terrorists = MilTerr Groups-Movements.
ZOOOOOOMMMMGG, RAFSANJANI IS BACK???
E.G. FAILURE OF THE US-ALLIES/WEST TO COMPLETELY DESTROY THE ISIS/ISIL, THUS ALLOWING SAME TO OPERATE AS A LEGIT ORGANIZED POLITY + WAGE REGIONAL, GLOBAL JIHAD FOR MANY YEARS-N-DECADES TO COME, ULTIMATELY CULMINATING IN THE RISE OF A [World-conquering, Jerusalem + Israel-destroying] MUSLIM/ISLAMIC NAPOLEON = ISLAMIC MAHDI/MESSIAH/
IMAM 2030-2050.
I haven't been paying attention -- why is the stock suddenly falling now?
Too many smart phones, for not enough smart people. Maybe not everyone wants an electronic tether smart phones have become. Dunno.
Too much FUD. Apple is making mountains of money, but not enough for the guys on Wall Street who find it more profitable to short them, and thus need something to panic the rubes.
Apple (AAPL) shares fell significantly for the second day Tuesday — bringing investors' paper losses to staggering levels and putting the stock further into correction territory.
Shares of Apple finished down $3.80, or 3.2%, to $114.64 in regular trading Tuesday, meaning they've fallen more than 14% since hitting their high of $134.54 on April 28. Given the massive size of Apple's market value, this sell off is enormous in that it has wiped out $113 billion in paper wealth. The sell off essentially erases more than the entire market value of corporate giants including Nike (NKE) at $98 billion or McDonald's (MCD) at $95 billion, separately.
It's the stock's third five-day losing streak in the past month, knocking the stock down 7% in just that time, says Bespoke Investment Group. The stock is down further from its average price the past 50 days than it has been in 12 years, Bespoke says.
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AAPL is still up about 10% from this time last year.
The company has an enormous cash and other liquid assets. The margin on their products is huge and they have great brand recognition. The question is whether they can develop a new product to get revenue growing again once the phone, watch and iPAD markets are saturated.
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Market correction. Follows may also be relevant:
Losses in Chinese equities, where almost $4 trillion was erased from June to July, may leave consumers with less money to buy gadgets in a market Cook expects to become Apple’s biggest. Apple got 17.4 percent of its revenue from China in its last full-year reporting period, Bloomberg data show.
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...it's all paper totally dependent upon the projection of value by the players in the game. Unfortunately, too many in the oligarchy want to 'fix' the game in their favor at the expense of everyone else.
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This was inevitable after Jobs' death. He and he alone had the industry clout to make new and interesting things happen. Now we are back to design by committee.
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] The government of Puerto Rico confirmed Monday that it failed to make a $58 million debt payment in a significant escalation of the debt crisis facing the U.S. island territory.
Puerto Rico made a partial payment of $628,000 in interest but could not afford to make the remainder, which was due Saturday, because the legislature did not appropriate the funds, said Melba Acosta Febo, president of the Government Development Bank.
The government had warned on Friday that it would not make the payment and argued that it should not be considered a default under a technical definition of the term, an argument rejected by Moody's Investor Service and others.
[AP] ATHENS, Greece -- Greek banks reopened Monday for the first time in three weeks, but strict limits on cash withdrawals and higher taxes on everything from coffee to diapers meant the economic outlook for the recession-battered country was far from back to normal.
There were hopeful developments: The cash-strapped nation got a short-term loan from European creditors to pay more than 6 billion euros ($6.5 billion) owed to the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank. Non-payment of either would have derailed Greece's latest bailout request.
But for most Greeks, already buffeted by six years of recession, Monday was all about rising prices as tax hikes demanded by creditors took effect.
Dimitris Chronis, who has run a small kebab shop in central Athens for 20 years, said the higher tax rates could push his business over the edge. "I can't put up my prices because I'll have no customers at all," lamented Chronis, who said sales have already slid by around 80 percent since banking restrictions were imposed on June 29.
"We used to deliver to offices nearby, but most of them have closed. People would order a lot and buy food for their colleagues on special occasions. That era is over."
There are few parts of the Greek economy left untouched by the steep increase in the sales tax from 13 to 23 percent. The new rates have been imposed on basic goods, from cooking oil to condoms, as well as to popular services, such as taxi rides, eating out at restaurants and ferry transport to the Greek islands.
The tax hikes are part of a package of austerity measures that also include pension cuts and other reforms that the Greek government had to introduce for negotiations to begin on a crucial third bailout. Both current and former workers must share the burden. Follows a familiar pattern. Burden sharing by those not working, not so much.
In response to last week's parliamentary vote backing the austerity measures, the ECB raised the amount of liquidity assistance on offer to Greek banks, paving the way for them to reopen Monday. But strict controls on cash flows, including a ban on check-cashing and payments abroad as well as limits on cash withdrawals, remained in effect. Gov't controlled banking appears to be coming along nicely. Little wonder gun safe sales are soaring in the U.S.
The European Union also sent a three-month loan to Athens, enabling the government to repay a 4.2 billion euro debt to the ECB on Monday and to clear its arrears of about 2 billion euros with the IMF.
The government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy bowed to austerity demands, cut public-sector wages and benefits, and increased VAT to 21 percent (with exemptions) from 18 percent. Had he stopped there, Spain might have bumped along the bottom for a good while longer, rather than seeing the recovery it's now enjoying.
Low inflation, a cheap euro, the fall in energy prices and renewed financial stability in Europe have supported consumer spending and lifted Spain's beleaguered retailers. Holidaymakers have favored Spain this season, too -- in part because visiting Greece without bundles of cash has presented difficulties. Put much of all that down to luck.
But Spain's recovery today also owes a lot to hard reform aimed at particular failings in the economy. The Rajoy government braved street protests and the rise of an anti-reform left-wing opposition and persisted in a deliberate rewiring of the Spanish economy, with an emphasis on far-reaching labor-market and tax reforms.
In 2014, the government said it would gradually lower the corporate tax rate to 25 percent from 30 percent. The top marginal rate on personal income will fall to 45 percent from 52 percent. The government is limiting deductions, broadening the tax base and making a serious effort to curb evasion.
Companies have been given more flexibility to set wages and working conditions. Wage growth that had run ahead of productivity has moderated. The barriers that created Spain's notorious two-tier labor market, with its underclass of workers on temporary contracts, have begun to fall.
Spain is predicting 3.3% growth for this year. I shouldn't count on Greece following Spain's example in the near future, as the government is the anti-reform left wing and, as Glenmore points out, Greeks don't pay taxes.
[DAWN] GUJRAT: A delegation of the UK High Commission, Islamabad, visited the office of the Jhelum district coordination officer (DCO) on Tuesday and stressed the need for joint efforts against forced marriages that lead to cases like parents-child abduction and abandoned spouses among UK nationals of Pakistani origin.
The delegation said the Forced Marriages Unit of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, has so far received 672 complaints of forced marriages involving UK nationals of Pakistan origin belonging to Jhelum, Gujrat and Mirpur (Azad Jammu and Kashmir).
The delegation was led by Lucy Monaghan, Joint Head of Forced Marriages Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London.
In the meeting, DCO Imran Raza Abbasi briefed the delegation on the efforts of the Facilitation Centre for Overseas Pakistanis, Jhelum, to resolve the problems of the overseas Pakistanis.
He assured the delegation of all-out efforts on the part of the district administration to eliminate forced marriages. He said the Overseas Pakistanis Facilitation Centre set up at the DCO Office had so far received 236 complaints since its establishment in June 2014.
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[DAWN] KASUR: A pitched battle between police and protesters left 25 people, including two DSPs, injured near Dolaywala village along Deepalpur Road on Tuesday.
Hundreds of people demonstrated against police for their alleged failure to smash a gang suspected of raping hundreds of children and extorting money from their parents by blackmailing them through videos.
Hundreds of people hailing from Husain Khanwala and other villages demonstrated against police for their alleged failure to smash a gang suspected of raping hundreds of children and extorting money from their parents by blackmailing them through videos.
The gang had been involved in the activity since 2009 and a property dispute brought the issue to surface. Police have registered seven cases against 15 people and tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! six of them.
The villagers were planning to protest in front of the Lahore Press Club and stage a sit-in near the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Assembly and accordingly announcements were made after the Friday sermons in Husain Khanwala and surrounding villages this past week but the death of a villager caused delay in the plan. Later, the villagers were informed through mobile phones that they would protest against police on Tuesday.
RPO assures protesters of arrests in ghastly case On Monday night, police held negotiations with the potential troublemakers and arrested two more suspects on Tuesday morning to pacify the villagers but in vain. Police cordoned off the roads leading to the village to stop the protesters who emerged on six vans, three tractor-trolleys and scores of cycle of violences.
As a police contingent tried to stop the mob led by Mobeen Ahmed, the latter pelted stones and resorted to gun sex. Police tear-gassed and baton-charged the crowd which went berserk and damaged private and official vehicles on Deepalpur Road. The protesters also snatched SMG (short machine gun rifle) from a police constable.
The clash left DSPs Hassan Farooq Ghumman and Arif Rasheed, Ganda Singh SHO Akmal Kausar, cops Akbar, Sajid, Riaz, Naeem, Ahmed Ali, Akbar Ghani and Muhammad Akmal besides 15 of the protesters injured. The injured were taken to the DHQ Hospital.
Later, the protesters again gathered at Kashmire Chowk and lambasted police. At New Bus Terminal on Ferozepur Road, Regional Police Officer Sahibzada Shahzad Sultan, MPA Malik Ahmed Saeed, DPO Rai Babar Saeed and SP Investigation Muhammad Nadeem Abbas negotiated with the protesters who finally dispersed on the assurance of the RPO that their representatives would be allowed to have a meeting with Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... within four to five days. He also pledged arrest of the remaining suspects.
The injured coppers obtained medico-legal certificates (MLCs) from the hospital. No case was registered till last reports came in.
It is learnt that police have got video-recordings of rape of children but they claim that this evidence shows many victims have turned perpetrators and it will take time to investigate the case.
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[DAWN] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... in a circular to party members on Tuesday said those who comment on "internal party affairs" in public will be stripped off their basic party membership.
In a circular issued from the PTI's central secretariat -- signed off by chairman Imran Khan -- party members are told to keep their discussions on party matters "within the party."
"PTI is a democratic party and members have the right to express their opinion within the party," reads the notice sent out to members dated August 4, 2015.
"Subsequently if any member goes public and challenges party decisions, it is a serious breach of discipline and unacceptable."
In addition to suspension of basic party membership, Imran Khan also warned public dissenters among his party's ranks of "further action... after following due process."
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I seriously doubt this action will produce much of a reduction in crime. What it will do is provide a transfer of policing and local law enforcement costs from failing, cash strapped urban America to the Federal Gov't. I believe we've seen this movie before, but under Housing, Medical Care, and Education sub-titles.
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Hey, just federalize all of Baltimore proper as a new 'reservation'. We have dozens of model across the country. Of course those models don't allow the 'reservations' to have representation or funding at the state level as they are separate federal entities.
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To be honest, I'm more bitterly amused than alarmed.
At Monday's press conference announcing the program, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md. made a plea to the residents of his home city. Cummings said, "I hear over and over and over again, 'Black Lives Matter'. And they do matter. But black lives also have to matter to black people."
While this action is politically and racially motivated (notice there's no similar action for Chicago,) the FBI and other LE agencies also send agents to Karachi. No one calls that "invading Pakistan."
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.
[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] An Arizona man who admitted to decapitating his wife and her two dogs in a bloody incident last month in Phoenix told authorities he was attempting "to get the evil out" of her, according to court documents released on Monday.
In 2000 Robert Mugabe shocked the world when he made dramatic changes to land ownership laws in Zimbabwe which resulted in thousands of white Zimbabwean farmers being forced to give up their farms and many to leave the country.
MOSCOW (AaayPeee) -- Russia has submitted its bid for vast territories in the Arctic to the United Nations, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
[AP] ATHENS, Greece -- Greek banks reopened Monday for the first time in three weeks, but strict limits on cash withdrawals and higher taxes on everything from coffee to diapers meant the economic outlook for the recession-battered country was far from back to normal.
