WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Border Patrol has restricted border agents' authority to shoot at moving vehicles or at people throwing rocks, changing a controversial policy that has contributed to at least 19 deaths since 2010.
In a memo released Friday, Border Patrol Chief Michael Fisher directed border agents not to step in front of moving vehicles, nor to use their bodies to block them, in order to open fire at drivers. He also barred shooting at vehicles whose occupants are fleeing from agents.
A deadly threat, which would justify use of force, does not "include a moving vehicle merely fleeing from agents," the new rule states.
Fisher also ordered agents to seek cover or move away from rock throwers if possible and not to shoot at them unless a rock or other object poses an imminent danger of death or serious injury.
The new rules would bring the Border Patrol's practices closer to those used routinely by the nation's major urban police departments. They are a response, in part, to widespread complaints from immigrant advocates that border agents have shot and killed people in some cases when deadly force was not necessary to protect the lives of agents or the public.
The new policy "seems to be a response to political pressure from special interests," Shawn P. Moran, vice president of the Border Patrol agents' union, said in a telephone interview.
The ACLU has proposed that agents wear small cameras and install video cameras in their vehicles, as many local and state police forces do, to provide a clear record when force is used. The Border Patrol agreed last year to test the cameras, but Fisher said the agency was still discussing that idea.
A New Jersey gun law critic, James Kaleda has a warrant out for his arrest for an error in his gun registration paperwork, only two days before he was scheduled to testify against even more unconstitutional laws New Jersey is planning to pass. There's your problem. Funny, I don't recall Chris Christie expressing outrage against the new guns laws nor the ones he has signed into law already. The face of Kaleda shown in the photo will be your face when the uniformed fascist comes for you.
Ammoland has another article about the situation in Connecticut, where a large swath of gun owners have defied state law and have refused to register their guns. One commenter at Sipsey Street Irregulars said that the state's reaction is likely to to be slow: traffic stops followed by search warrants followed by confiscation. The commenter said state officials expect fear to move the other 50,000 to 100,00 gun owners to register their guns once a public prosecution has been made. The flaw in that logic will be the moment a state cop gets surrounded by a number of angry citizens exercising their own rights.
Prices for pistol and rifle ammunition ammunition were mostly higher. Prices for rimfire ammunition have absolutely jumped higher.
Prices for used pistols were mostly higher, while prices for used rifles were lower across the board.
Pistol Ammo
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (Two weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Today's Ammo, Tulammo, steel cased, .34 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LV Ammo, FMJ brass, reloaded, .34 per round (+.02 each after unchanged for Three Weeks)
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (Unchanged 4 of 8 previous weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Selway Armory, BVAC, reloaded, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 250 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store Brand, reloaded, .27 per round (From Last Week: +.01)
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain, From Last Week: +.03 each (+.07 over three weeks))
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store Brand, RN, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Jack Ross Ammunition, Store brand, reloaded, .24 per round (Unchanged 2 weeks)
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each (from last week -.01 each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Munire USA, CCI Speer, JHP, .45 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 250 Rounds: LAX Ammo, Store Brand, .39 per round (-.02 Each from last week)
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each (After unchanged previous three weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire USA, Tulammo, steel cased, .26 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf, steel cased, .29 per round (Unchanged after -.04 Each previous four weeks)
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (After -.07 Each previous five weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire USA, Prvi Partizan, steel cased, .58 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: The Sportsman Guide, MFS, steel cased, .56 per round (Unchanged (two weeks))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 (After unchanged for three weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Alamo Ammo, RedA Army Standard, steel core and case, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 600 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Brown Bear, steel core and case, .24 per round (+.03 Each from previous week )
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: +.05 Each (!)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Smokey Mountain Munitions, Remington, .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Federal, .18 per round (+.01 from previous week (+.02 over previous two weeks))
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $810 Last Week Avg: $855 (-)
California: American Tactical Imports: $650
Texas: Bushmaster Carbon 15: $700
New York: LMT Defender 2000: $1,300
Virgina: DPMS Oracle: $650
Florida: Mixed Build: $750
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,344 Last Week Avg: $1,362 (-)
California: DPMS LR308: $1,200
Texas: Smith & Wesson M&P10: $1,220
New York: Armalite AR-10T: $2,200
Virginia: FN Defender 2000 SPM16: $1,100
Florida:DPMS LR308: $1,000
.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $465 Last Week Avg: $476 (-)
California: Rock Island Armory: $425 (Same Gun)
Texas: SAM 1911 Elite: $450
New York: Unknown: $550 (Same Gun)
Virginia: Rock Island Armory: $550 (Prolly Same Gun)
Florida:Llama Max: $350
9mm Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic Average Price: $500 Last Week Avg: $380 (+)
California: Glock 19: $550
Texas: Glock 17: $499
New York: Glock 19: $450
Virginia: Glock 26: $500
Florida: Glock 26: $500
.40 caliber S&W (Glock and other semiautomatic) Average Price: $565 Last Week Avg: $425 (+)
California: Glock 22: $500
Texas: Glock 22: $450
New York: Glock 22: $450
Virginia: Glock 23: $550
Florida: Glock 22: $475
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So AK-47 ammo is now only 20% more expensive than .22 plinking ammo? Wow. I have an old box of .22 (half empty) in my safe with a 79 cent price tag on it - for 50 rounds.
A Pentagon research team is studying the body movements of Russian President Vladimir Putin and other world leaders in order to better predict their actions and guide U.S. policy, Pentagon documents and interviews show.
The "Body Leads" project backed by the Office of Net Assessment (ONA), the think tank reporting to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, uses the principles of movement pattern analysis to predict how leaders will act. The idea that anybody who transmits intentions via body language wouldn't last 10 minutes in Kremlin doesn't seem to penetrate?
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Try this, read a history book!! Hagel is a moonbat! Its clear to even this moron, me, that he will take the country one way or the other. If you oppose him you will disappear.
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Western Ukraine was a hot bed of suppoprt for the Nazis. They even had their own SS Division and others were notoriously brutal as concentration camp guards. I shed no tears.
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Here are my two favorite body language tips:
Man pointing a gun may shoot gun quickly after pointing.
Man holding a golf club may shoot golf ball quickly after.
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They should consider hiring me. I'd tell them about Putin's intent without even watching him.
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Putin may be an amoral thug, but his behavior is predictable--everyone always acts to protect their own perceived interests. He's got Chechens + a hot bed of extremists on his entire southern border about to explode, and with an international crackdown on trafficking, He's moving to secure access to ports around the equator to protect Russian interests that include heroin and cocaine + weapons and the turf battles have begun. But he's a capitalist, which can be reasoned with and disputes resolved, where a socialist or fascist are intolerant and entitled. Atheism and conservatism are incompatible, and the root of the problem in DC, but Russian libertarian capitalists are still products of western civilization. Putin even claims to have been baptized. Libertarian religious views can tip either way, either with a deep reverence for God & a moral compass built-in, or wanting total lawlessness, rebelling against all authority in heaven and earth.without rules and laws to confine them, but they are both opposite of the fascistic intol-otalitarianism and even socialistic egalitarians as neither respects individualism. They can justify eugenics and genocide, determining a social triage where they determine which desirables are worth leaving on the planetand these are the people in control in Washington, the EU, UN, and even the mullahs who want sharia. Sure makes for strange bedfellows and strategic allies -- but Putin would be easier to reason with than Obama! Black market capitalism and individual liberty is preferable to the disdainful power-hungry narcissist that crushes his enemies and rewards the groupies. And with hired snipers of unknown origin shooting up Kiev, maybe it was neither the Ukrainians nor the Russians stirring up chaos? I'd trust a Russian billionaire with a taste for women and intolerance for Muslim bullish*t over an entitled socialist egomaniac-in-chief with global aspirations. Now if only a Pentagon study could predict O's intent, illogical and arbitrary as it is....
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Flaiger Uneamp8181: @I'd trust a Russian billionaire with a taste for women and intolerance for Muslim bullish*t over an entitled socialist egomaniac-in-chief with global aspirations.
TEXAS--National unemployment numbers took yet another jump in data released today by the federal government. While adding 175,000 jobs, the unemployment rate moved upwards to 6.7 percent. Not so in Texas, where unemployment dropped to well below the six percent level.
Texas Governor Rick Perry announced today in a written statement that Texas' unemployment fell yet again from 6.0 percent to 5.7 percent.
"Every day," Perry proudly stated, "more Texans are going to work, earning a living and supporting their families because we follow a simple recipe for job creation: we keep our taxes low, our regulations effective and predictable, our courts fair and our schools accountable."
"That's why Texas has been the national epicenter for job creation for more than a decade," Gov. Perry explained, "and today's numbers indicate we're not slowing down anytime soon. While Washington is unable to significantly move the needle on unemployment, in Texas we free job creators to pursue success, which means more good-paying jobs for more Texans." A side note. This week to vote in the Texas primaries you had to have an ID. Despite the left claiming ID's would prevent voters from voting, more people voted in this primary than in the last state wide primary when IDs were not required. You will not hear this in the National Socialist Media.
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Not bad for a bunch of slack jawed,drooling, unsophisticated maroons. So, out of the 57 states, Texas is better than the other, um, oh, my I didn't know there was going to be math, 46 or so , states.
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And the "slack jawed, drooling, unsophisticated maroon" ....governor and his staff spend a great deal of their time encouraging firms to move to Texas and hire people. When they're not busy with that, they're approving oil lease drilling and exploration agreements.
[An Nahar] Pro-Russian faceless myrmidons smashed through the gates of a Ukrainian air force base in Crimea on Friday in the latest signs of boiling tensions on the rugged peninsula, Ukraine's defense ministry said.
The faceless myrmidons entered the base and were in negotiations with the commander of the base, while soldiers guarding it have locked themselves in their barracks, a ministry spokesperson told Agence La Belle France Presse.
No shots were fired in the incident. Another Ukrainian military official said the incident began at 1740 GMT.
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Long past time somebody, who is not a Muslim, treated these destructive morons as destructive morons.
[THEPENINSULAQATAR] President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... rebuffed a warning from US President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... over Moscow's military intervention in Crimea, saying yesterday that Russia could not ignore calls for help from Russian speakers in Ukraine.
After an hour-long telephone call, Putin said in a statement that Moscow and Washington were still far apart on the situation in the former Soviet republic, where he said the new authorities had taken "absolutely illegitimate decisions on the eastern, southeastern and Crimea regions.
"Russia cannot ignore calls for help and it acts accordingly, in full compliance with international law," Putin said.
Ukraine's border guards said Moscow had poured troops into the southern peninsula where Russian forces have seized control.
Serhiy Astakhov, an aide to the border guards' commander, said there were now 30,000 Russian soldiers in Crimea, compared to 11,000 permanently based with the Russian Black Sea fleet in the port of Sevastopol before the crisis.
Putin denies that the forces with no national insignia that are surrounding Ukrainian troops in their bases are under Moscow's command, although their vehicles have Russian military plates. The West has ridiculed this claim.
The most serious east-west confrontation since the end of the Cold War -- resulting from the overthrow last month of President Viktor Yanukovich after violent protests in Kiev -- escalated on Thursday when Crimea's parliament, dominated by ethnic Russians, voted to join Russia. The region's government set a referendum for March 16 - in just nine days' time.
European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... leaders and Obama denounced the referendum as illegitimate, saying it would violate Ukraine's constitution.
The head of Russia's upper house of parliament said after meeting visiting Crimean politicians on Friday that Crimea had a right to self-determination, and ruled out any risk of war between "the two brotherly nations".
Before calling Putin, Obama announced the first sanctions against Russia since the start of the crisis, ordering visa bans and asset freezes against so far unidentified persons deemed responsible for threatening Ukraine's illusory sovereignty.
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It is no secret that, from the the first day they met, Vladimir Putin has never considered President Obama as even close to being his intellectual equal.
And as Putin has consistently out-maneuvered Obama on every issue, it is hard not to agree with Putin's assessment.
An opinion of the Russian military takeover of Crimea. (written by Junkiron).
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Putin's actions have been well thought out and planned. The towing of the Ochakov to block the Ukrainian fleet is an example. The really sad part is it would appear the Ukrainians were not informed of the towing and it's obvious intent.....by those paid to watch for such events.
Putin graduated from the International Law branch of the Law Department of the Leningrad State University in 1975, writing his final thesis on international law.[24] His PhD thesis was titled "The Strategic Planning of Regional Resources Under the Formation of Market Relations" and it argued that Russian economic success would depend on creating national energy champions.
[THEPENINSULAQATAR] Leading Ukrainian politician Yulia Tymoshenko said there was a danger of guerrilla war in Crimea should it be incorporated into Russia and appealed to Germany and others yesterday for immediate economic sanctions against Moscow.
She said a Russian takeover of the Crimean peninsula would create long-term dangers for the whole region.
Speaking after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... , Tymoshenko said international measures against Russia had so far been ineffective and called for immediate action to prevent a "flashpoint".
"As of today, those instruments that have already been applied by the US and the EU didn't produce any tangible effects," she said, summarising her message to Merkel.
"If these instruments do not produce results, there are two options left. To opt for next strongest sanctions, I proposed a set of nonviolent, economic measures." The alternative, she said, was to give Crimea to Russia. "They have to be very convincing for Putin to send the strongest signal that it would not be tolerated."
She also underscored the "serious obligation" of the United States and Britannia to support Ukraine, referring to an earlier agreement with Kiev to surrender nuclear arms in exchange for their pledge to guarantee its territory.
"In terms of international law, there are clearly defined country guarantors, namely the US and the United Kingdom."
Crimea's parliament has voted to secede from Ukraine and join Russia, calling a referendum on the question. The West, Tymoshenko said, should not accommodate such action. "The immediate consequences would be guerrilla warfare," she said, speaking through a translator. "(This)...would be a real flash point in the Black Sea.
"Putin would be allowed to (use) such instruments with a military component in the Crimean case, then where will he stop?"
"He goes as far as he will be allowed to go," said Tymoshenko, who suffers from back problems and sat in a wheelchair throughout the interview.
"Who is next? We never will be able to stabilise the situation in Ukraine and the wider region, if it will be a permanent conflict."
Tymoshenko was strongly at odds with now deposed President Viktor Yanukovich, and was considered a political prisoner by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... until she was freed from jail hours after he fled the country. She had been imprisoned in 2011 over a gas deal that she signed with Russia.
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She speaks the truth. Pro-Russian population is 60% while pro-Ukraine is 40%. Not 5%, 10%, 30% but almost half of the population.
Too many people who do not want Crimean to be a Russian satellite.
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Again,
In the face of U.S. opposition, in 1991, Ukraine declared its independence from Moscow, with over 90% public ratification. Predictably, but weeks later the USSR disintegrated, and the U.S. ironically declared victory. The Cold War was over, we were told. Upon gaining its independence, Ukraine became the third largest nuclear power in the world but, induced by assurances from Great Britain, the U.S.and Russia!concerning its sovereignty and territorial integrity, surrendered its arsenal. This was a phenomenon never to be repeated. Nor are those assurances today honored.
[An Nahar] The deputy head of Storied Baghdad airport was enjugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! after a Storied Baghdad-bound Middle East Airlines plane that left Beirut without the Iraqi transport minister's son was ordered mid-flight to turn back, the premier's front man said Friday.
Samer "Kubba was arrested... because his action was wrong and harmful to the prestige of the Iraqi state," Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's front man Ali Mussawi told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Why not just fire him?
It was unclear what role Kubba, who was arrested Thursday by troops reporting directly to Maliki, is thought to have played in the incident.
Middle East Airlines said Thursday that Iraqi authorities forced its Storied Baghdad-bound flight to turn around some 20 minutes out of Beirut because Transport Minister Hadi al-Ameri's son, Mahdi, had missed the flight.
MEA said the flight had taken off after repeatedly paging two passengers, who failed to turn up.
"The passengers did not respond to the calls and the plane took off after being delayed by several minutes," it said.
"About 20 minutes after take-off, Middle East Airlines was informed by its Storied Baghdad office that the plane would be prevented from landing by local civil aviation officials if a passenger was not on board."
The missing passenger was identified as Mahdi al-Ameri, and the plane turned back to Beirut.
Following the incident, Mussawi said Maliki ordered that "all those responsible for preventing the plane coming from Beirut from landing in Storied Baghdad" be "dismissed and held responsible."
But transport ministry front man Karim Nuri said it was "completely untrue" that the flight was turned back on behalf of Ameri's son.
He insisted that MEA had been previously told that the plane would not be able to land due to runway maintenance at the Storied Baghdad airport, which is why it was turned back.
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[THEPENINSULAQATAR] A boy in Britain has left many people stunned by developing a 'nuclear fusion reactor' in his school's science laboratory. Jamie Edwards became the youngest person in the world to achieve nuclear fusion from scratch at his Lancashire secondary school, using high energy to smash two hydrogen atoms together to make helium, Daily Mail reported.
"It is quite an achievement. It's magnificent really," Jamie said afterwards. "I can't quite believe it -- even though all my friends think I am mad." Edwards, who attends Penwortham Priory Academy near Preston, has been fascinated with radiation for years, on one occasion even buying a Geiger counter with his Christmas money.
He started building the reactor in October at the science laboratory at Priory Academy, Lancashire, and finally finished the task yesterday. He said that his fusion ambition was sparked by reading about a 14-year-old US schoolboy, Taylor Wilson, who had become the youngest to produce a small fusion reactor in Nevada in 2008. "I looked at it, thought 'That looks cool' and decided to have a go," Jamie added.
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Young Mr. Edwards had previously been noted in this paper for attempting to buy 10 fire-detectors with pound coins dated 2079 causing much confusion.
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I do hope Brit authorities will provide some kind of protection for the kid and his family---too many idiots, especially ones called Muhammad, who don't understand he can't make a nuke for them.
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I would expect HM's govt minions, in the persons of environmental agents, then security personel, to give young Jamie's classroom and home a thorough going over. Can't have the masses getting off script, you know. (The BS line about how difficult nuclear stuff is, and only they can protect us, just give us your trust and taxes, etc. It's worked well for them for half a century.)
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Fusion's not the big challenge - controlled fusion with net energy gain is.
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Jamie said afterwards. "I can't quite believe it -- even though all my friends think I am mad." Edwards, who has a keen interest in science let the reporter in on a little secret,"I've been working on a Photon Ray Gun in my dad's garage. I call it the William Tell, it's almost ready to test, if you care to stop by you can assist me."
h/t Instapundit
A Malaysian couple was sentenced to hang for starving their Indonesian maid to death, a defense lawyer said, one of a string of shocking cases spotlighting abuse of domestic helpers in the region.
Isti Komariyah weighed just 26 kilograms (57 pounds) on her death in Kuala Lumpur in June 2011 from what a court ruled was deliberate starvation, according to Malaysian media reports on the ruling. I hope it's a slow noose.
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How do you tell whether she was starved or she starved herself? Is a Third World court capable of determining this? Or is this yet another example of a Muslim country whaling on non-Muslims for any reason it can gin up?
[NY Times] A Malaysian appeals court sentenced Anwar Ibrahim, the country's opposition leader, on Friday to five years in prison on charges of sodomy, a conviction that critics described as an attempt to block the opposition's ascendancy at a time when the governing party's popularity is waning.
Mr. Anwar, 66, was due to register for a local election next week, and a victory could have put him in charge of the country's richest state, Selangor, which is under opposition control. Although Mr. Anwar is appealing the court decision, and he was released on bail Friday, the conviction bars him from office.
"You have got what you wanted," Mr. Anwar shouted in court, according to Malaysiakini, an online news agency.
Anal sex, or "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" as described in the criminal code, is punishable by 20 years in prison in Malaysia.
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The Malay-language edition of the comic book "Ultraman the Ultra Power" has been banned because it contains "elements that may threaten public order," Malaysia's Home Ministry said in a statement. Another statement clarified that the ban was due to use of the term "Allah" to describe the Japanese superhero.
The move, which has drawn criticism and ridicule on the Internet, comes amid rising tensions between Muslims and Christians over the use of the word. Malaysia's highest court is currently deciding whether to grant the Catholic Church permission to appeal a lower court ruling that bans it from referring to their God as "Allah."
The ban was imposed because the character Ultraman is "an idol for children" and the use of the term Allah could "confuse" their thinking. In Friday's statement, the Home Ministry said "If the matter isn't curbed, it could damage Muslim's children faith by equating Allah with Ultraman."
So the Ministry contends that Muslim Malaysians are not as intelligent as non-Muslim Malaysians? How odd.
Netizens shared information about the ban on social media. "Ultraman" has been one of the top trending topics in Malaysia since Thursday evening. Even Malaysia's Youth Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin, tweeted, "What's Ultraman's fault?"
Anyone found guilty of producing or distributing the comic book could face jail time of up to three years or a fine not exceeding $6,146 or both.
Once again showing themselves to be skinless people in a sandpaper world.
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.
...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
Putin's actions have been well thought out and planned. The towing of the Ochakov to block the Ukrainian fleet is an example. The really sad part is it would appear the Ukrainians were not informed of the towing and it's obvious intent.....by those paid to watch for such events. 
[THEPENINSULAQATAR] A boy in Britain has left many people stunned by developing a 'nuclear fusion reactor' in his school's science laboratory. Jamie Edwards became the youngest person in the world to achieve nuclear fusion from scratch at his Lancashire secondary school, using high energy to smash two hydrogen atoms together to make helium, Daily Mail reported. 
