"This challenging moment shall pass if we reject blame and embrace the hope, dreams, and promise of a great American city." Yeah, that or maybe throw some people in jail. Because with a 50% increase in the homicide rate, it sounds like the hopes and dreams of Baltimore involve murdering people.
Belgium has advised its citizens to leave Burundi, and the EU is cutting staff levels in the country because of the "rising risk of violence". Belgium says those among about 500 Belgians in the country "whose presence is not essential" should leave.
The EU says it will evacuate temporarily its employees' "families and part of the non-essential staff".
The cycle of violence began with protests against President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third term. At least 240 people have been killed there since the demonstrations began in April. There are fears of a Rwandan-style genocide in Burundi, which also has a history of tensions between Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups.
Meanwhile, the EU ambassador to Burundi, Patrick Spirlet, told Reuters that the "rising risk of violence" had prompted the EU mission in the capital Bujumbura to reduce some staff. However, he stressed that "the delegation will continue functioning normally".
These measures come a day after the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution strongly condemning the escalating violence. The French-drafted resolution also paves the way for a possible deployment of blue-helmeted UN peacekeepers.
Those might be needed in Paris...
It requests that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon reports within 15 days on options for increasing the UN presence in the impoverished African country.
UN officials are considering a number of alternatives, including rushing in peacekeepers currently deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, says the BBC's Nick Bryant. But that would require another vote in the Security Council.
In April, Mr Nkurunziza argued that his first term as president did not count towards the constitutional two-term limit as he was chosen by MPs. Mr Nkurunziza was duly re-elected with 70% of the vote in July.
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WASHINGTON -- Jonathan Pollard, the Navy intelligence analyst whose 1985 arrest for selling secrets to Israel set off a sensational spy saga, is scheduled to be released from federal prison next week, marking the end of a three-decade diplomatic burr in the relationship between the two allies.
Pollard, 61, had been serving a life sentence, but was granted parole this year under sentencing rules in place at the time of his prosecution that made him presumptively eligible for release this month.
Personally I'd let him rot in prison for the rest of his life but rules are rules...
Although the decision from the U.S. Parole Commission came around the same time as a sharp disagreement between the U.S. and the Israeli governments over a nuclear deal with Iran, officials from both countries have denied the release was in any way tied to that arrangement, or was intended as a concession to Israel.
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Not that I believe he should be let go, but the "information" he passed and has mental possession of is now more suitable for a Military Surplus Store.
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I take this particular case personally. I spent 15 years in the Naval Reserve Intelligence program. Most of my two week training periods were spent in Suitland, MD, where Pollard worked. Who knows, I may have even seen him in the cafeteria.
As far as I am concerned, he should have served out his sentence.
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1965=2015, More like 50 years.
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In light of the fact this slug was motivated as much ,if not more, by greed then any sense of loyalty it seems odd Pollard has so many supporters. Kinda like that Brown fellow in Ferguson and the BLM movement I spose.
h/t Gates of Vienna
...CNS News reports that in the Detroit public school district, an astounding 96 percent of eighth grade students are not proficient in math, while an equally eye-popping 93 percent are not at all proficient in reading; the latter has major employment implications as well. These are the results of the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress tests published by the Department of Education's National Center for Educational Statistics. I thought 110% voted in Detroit?
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I haz new curriculum for you guys! Let's do a serious lunch and talk, where? Anywhere, Pariis Rome is nice this time of year, your spouse or SO can fly with us for $2.42 which is legit depreciation over the course of 10 million ton/hours. Hotel is a triple suite, so no additional expense there and of course you can eat with us, unless you don't want to, in which case I can recommend many 4 and 5 star eateries. Oh noes! Your wife can't come? Humm, I see, yes, we've all been in that situation, are you familiar with the term la bella vita? Good. See you there.
/Pearson Educashun/Hardcore Brace & Other Thieves.
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 don't recall Darwin ever saying his theory of 'Natural Selection' was limited to plants and animals. 
