[INFOWARS] Professor of Computer Science Dr. Kristian Hammond predicts that by 2030, 90 per cent of all news stories will be written not by human news hounds but by computer algorithms. Since it's infowars, we'd normally suggest the usual grain of salt, but since we're pioneering the concept...
Hammond, co-founded of Narrative Science, helped develop a program with news hound and programmer Ken Schwencke that relies on a fusion of statistics and journalistic cliches to write simple news stories. Analysts say the forthcoming election has been a factor in the rising sectarian violence in Iraq in recent months, with Mr Maliki and other Shia political leaders determined to be seen to be taking a hard line against militancy rather than reach out to the Sunni Arab minority.
More than [fill in the blank] people have been killed in violent attacks across the country so far this month, according to [news agency], including [number] on [weekday].
This is how the L.A. Times was able to publish an article about last week's earthquake just 3 minutes after it happened, because the whole story was artificially generated by Schwencke's computer algorithm. Saleh was removed from power in a year-long uprising that started in 2011 and ended after he signed a power transfer deal that gave him immunity from prosecution in return for leaving power in 2012.
While the L.A. Times is open about its use of the program, many other mainstream news websites are using "robo-news hounds" completely anonymously without a disclaimer. The government is optimistic that the banned group would extend the ceasefire.
According to Singularity Hub's Jason Dorrier, Professor Hammond, "thinks some 90% of the news could be written by computers by 2030." And don't think this will just be restricted to sports results or earthquakes. Hammond also believes that "a computer could write stories worthy of a Pulitzer Prize by 2017." However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... Meanwhile,
This speaks to the increasingly redundant role of mainstream news news hounds. Journalists working for the corporate press have abandoned their role as adversarial checks against the state to such a degree that they are now being replaced by computers.
Journalists working for the corporate press have abandoned their role as adversarial checks against the state to such a degree that they are now being replaced by computers
Mainstream news hounds have become so adept at merely regurgitating official narratives and echoing government talking points unchallenged that they are now being replaced by robots -- and nobody is even noticing.
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The Pennsylvania avenue will email news to the media. Bye bye labor costs. Obama phone. Obama computer. No need for printed paper. Save a few trees. All mail sent to your computer. No Postal service as it is now. Packages sent to local stores for pick up. Mass transit authorized route planned and approved for pickup or delivery.
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And somebody's got to notice the earthquake to write it up. Perhaps the seismometers will be send their reports directly to computers to issue automated reports. Lots of amateur weather stations do that already.
Ray Bradbury once wrote a short story about a robotically maintained house that continued to clean itself, with the shadows of its former residents burned into the house's siding by a nuclear blast.
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The March 16 fatal shooting by two Albuquerque Police officers of a mentally ill homeless camper in the citys foothills is now the subject of a federal criminal investigation, according to several people briefed by U.S. Justice Department officials Wednesday afternoon. - source
[Al Ahram] Egypt's prosecutor-general has referred a police officer working in South Sinai to a criminal court for the attempted rape of a Russian tourist in Sharm El-Sheikh.
According to a statement issued on Tuesday by the prosecutor-general's office, the incident in question refers to a police report received on 15 March.
Lilian Marizuean, a Russian tourist, was sleeping in her hotel room when Ibrahim Ismail, an officer in South Sinai's tourism police, snuck in from the balcony and then tried to rape her, according to the statement.
Marizuean resisted Ismail and screamed, and succeeded in pushing him out of her room. She reported the incident to authorities the next day.
The statement did not specify in which hotel the attack took place.
The officer's trial will take place in Ismailia, the nearest criminal court to the Red Sea resort town.
Earlier on Tuesday, Egypt's ministry of tourism revoked the licenses of two hotels in Sharm El-Sheikh -- Hilton Sharks Bay Hotel and Sharm Holiday Resort -- after sexual harassment incidents at both resorts were ignored by their management.
The prosecutor-general's office on Tuesday stressed that it still has not received any official report regarding this week's alleged rape of a British woman in Sharm El-Sheikh.
British press revealed on Sunday that a 40-year-old British businesswoman said she had been raped by a security guard at a five-star hotel.
Egypt's tourism minister said on Monday that it was investigating the case along with UK authorities.
In May 2013, Egypt's tourism minister Hisham Zaazou told Ahram Online that hotels would be closed if staff were found to have sexually harassed tourists, behaviour that Zaazou said would negatively impact the country's reputation.
The tourism ministry has recorded 150 cases of sexual harassment against tourists over the last two years. There have also been three recorded rapes.
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[AnNahar] Venezuela has tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! three air force generals suspected of plotting an uprising against the leftist government, President Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday.
Maduro told a meeting of South American foreign ministers that the three generals, who were not identified, had been in contact with the opposition and "were trying to rise up against the legitimately constituted government."
"This group that was captured has direct links with sectors of the opposition and they were saying that this week was the decisive week," Maduro said.
He said the generals had already been summoned before a court martial, adding that the plot was discovered because other officers had come forward to say they were being recruited.
The disclosure comes amid a broadening government crackdown against Maduro's opponents after weeks of street protests that have left at least 34 dead.
On Monday, National Assembly president Diosdado Cabello announced that a prominent opposition deputy, Maria Corina Machado, had lost her seat and parliamentary immunity, and could be arrested at any moment.
At a news conference in Lima, a defiant Machado said she would return to Caracas on Wednesday, adding she feared she would be arrested on her arrival.
She said she was returning "because I am a Venezuelan deputy and I will enter Venezuela as such to continue fighting in the streets without rest until we achieve democracy and freedom."
Machado angered the government by going before the Organization of American States last week as a guest of Panama to discuss the crisis in Venezuela.
Panama's representative to the OAS, Arturo Vallarino, said the move to take away Machado's seat was "proof of the arbitrary acts being committed in Venezuela."
Last week, two opposition mayors were arrested, and another prominent opposition leader has been in tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for a month, accused of inciting violence.
[AnNahar] Forest fires on a mountain overlooking Caracas knocked out power to downtown areas of the city Tuesday and officials said they suspected the blazes were set deliberately.
A fire broke out Monday afternoon that affected electric power lines, followed by a second fire that ignited during the night leaving part of the center of the city in the dark, they said.
"The way in which this happened makes us suppose that it was provoked," said Jesse Chacon, the minister in charge of Venezuela's electric power grid.
William Martinez, commanding general of firefighters in the Caracas municipality of Libertador, said the fires were "almost entirely extinguished" and agreed that they may have been intentional.
"We are convinced that a human factor was present," he said.
[Al Ahram] Ukraine's parliament sacked the crisis-hit country's besieged defence minister Tuesday after his forces began a humiliating withdrawal from Crimea without firing a shot against Russian forces who claimed the Black Sea peninsula.
Crimea's effective loss -- though recognised by no Western power -- has dealt a heavy psychological blow to many Ukrainians who have already spent the past years mired in corruption and economic malaise.
Ukraine's ground commanders in Crimea had complained bitterly of confusion among the top brass in Kiev since Russian 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... 's decision on March 1 to seek the right to use force against his neighbour in response to last month's fall in Kiev of a pro-Kremlin regime.
Some 228 deputies in the 450-seat Verkhovna Rada parliament supported Igor Tenyukh's dismissal after the acting defence minister tendered his resignation in an emotional address broadcast live to the nation of 46 million people.
"It seems that the actions of the interim defence minister in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea... have displeased some," said Tenyukh.
"I have never clung on to my job, and I don't intend to do so now," he said. "I have honour."
Tenyukh also admitted that 14,500 of Ukraine's 18,800 soldiers in Crimea had informed their superiors they would prefer to remain on the peninsula as part of the Russian military -- a massive majority that underscores the demoralised state of Kiev's force.
Deputies then voted to appoint Lieutenant General Mykhailo Koval as the new acting defence minister after his name was submitted for approval by interim President Oleksandr Turchynov.
Koval had made the news earlier this month when he was briefly kidnapped by pro-Kremlin militias near his military base in the Crimean port of Yalta.
Tuesday's session gave politicians a chance to voice growing frustrations with how the Western-backed leaders have handled their jobs since coming to power on the back of three months of deadly protests whose ultimate aim was to eliminate the corruption and Kremlin dependence that have weighed over Ukraine throughout its post-Soviet history.
"We gave up Crimea to the Russians thanks to our unprofessionalism," independent politician Igor Palytsya fumed. "We gave up Crimea thanks to our indecision."
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14,500 of Ukraine's 18,800 soldiers in Crimea had informed their superiors they would prefer to remain on the peninsula as part of the Russian military
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Trailing wife. About clothing, it was the Germans not the Russians who freezed to death in 1941. Also could be that the Russian Army is not famous for feeding its soldiers but I assure you very few armies drinj them half as well.
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The loss of the navy was inexcusable. They should have put all the ships to sea, headed for Odessa. Aircraft up to the next airbase N of the Crimea. That alone would have 1) gotten the gear (especially ships & aircraft) out of russian hands, and b) gotten troops busy with something to do (inertia in the military works - get busy then stays busy)
[Al Ahram] Ukrainian elite police rubbed out a far-right nationalist leader in the western city of Rivne in a shootout that erupted during a raid to arrest him, the government said Tuesday.
Oleksandr Muzytchko, better known as "Sashko Bilyi", the head of Pravy Sektor (Right Sector) in western Ukraine, opened fire first, deputy interior minister Volodymyr Evdokimov said.
The shootout broke out at a cafe on Monday night when the "Sokol" special forces went in to arrest Muytchko, who had been wanted for organised crime, Evdokimov said.
Pravy Sektor played a crucial role in the frontlines of deadly protests that unseated pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych last month and has been branded a neo-Nazi organization by Russia.
After the uprising, pro-Kremlin forces seized control from Ukraine of ethnic Russian-dominated Crimea, as Moscow said it reserved the right to protect its compatriots from Death Eaters.
Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday, Evdokimov said the bullet that killed Muzytchko had come from his own gun.
The security forces shot him twice in the leg, and he suffered three other bullet wounds while on the ground in a struggle with them, the interior deputy minister said.
"One wonders if he did away with himself or if his adversaries shot at him," he said.
Three of Muzytchko's accomplices, who had been armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and a Makarov pistol, were locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! in the same operation and taken to Kiev pending an investigation.
Pravy Sektor on Saturday formed a political party, and Dmytro Yarosh was elected its leader and put forward as its candidate in Ukraine's presidential election on May 25.
Reacting to Muzytchko's death, Yarosh demanded the sacking of Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and the arrest of the commander of the "Sokol" forces behind the operation.
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[DAWN] Police took a teenage boy in protective custody on Monday after he fled a seminary with a heavy steel chain tied to his feet.
Fifteen-year-old Umair Ramzan told police that he had been in chains at the Madressah Faizul Koran in Waheed Park of Amar Sidhu village.
According to the first information report lodged by ASI Liaqat Ali, of Factory Area police, under section 342 (punishment for wrongful confinement) of the Pakistain Penal Code, he and his team were patrolling Ghazi Road, Shaukat Town, when a Rescue 15 call alerted them that a boy with a chain tied to his feet was present at a hair-dresser's shop near Bodhi graveyard.
The caller, Sajjad Ahmad, handed over the child to police who identified himself as Umair Ramzan, son of Muhammad Ramzan, of Amar Sidhu village.The boy told police that he had beat feet from the Faizul Koran Madressah where he had been in chains for the last six days.
Also the complainant in the case, the ASI stated the boy was kept in illegal detention by an unidentified person. Police seized the chain and a lock as evidence.
Umair, who has an unusual eye defect, told Dawn he had managed to escape from the seminary pretending that he was going to washroom. Once out of the seminary, he kept walking when two people approached him asking about the chain.
"I gave the men the phone number of my father," he told police. The men, however, alerted police and news hounds.
Umair, who visibly looked frightened, said his father Ramzan had asked his teacher Qari Muhammad Waseem Tabasum a few days ago to chain him so that he could not run away. They both kept him chained for six days despite his requests that he would never leave the madressah. He said his teacher had never beaten him and that his father had asked the teacher to keep him in captivity.
Umair dropped out of school after completing class IV and joined a seminary around three years ago. Soon, he quit this too as his fellow students would taunt him owing to his defected eye and partial baldness.
He said his father got him admitted to another seminary where he studied for more than one and a half years. He quit this place because his tutors, including Qari Nazir, would subject him to torture for skipping classes and not remembering Koran lessons. He said his father had agreed to change the seminary after seeing torture scars on his body.
He said finally he joined Faizul Koran Madressah a few months ago only to become a laughing stock for his fellows.
"I want to go to school; I want to live with my parents," said Umair who will be produced before a court on Tuesday (today). He said he was never tortured by his parents and siblings at home.
Umair's father Ramzan, who is a driver, said he had suggested the teacher to detain his son for he would often run away run from the madressah. He said he himself had bought the chain and lock and gave them to Qari Waseem. Ramzan said he did so for the welfare of his son.
Qari Waseem, of Muzaffargarh, who is disabled, said he had joined the seminary one month ago and never beat any pupil. He claimed he initially rejected Ramzan's idea of chaining Umair, but the madressah nazim ...small time big shot, the chief elected official of a local government in Pakistan, such as a district, tehsil, union council, or village council... told him to do so.
He said Umair was a good student who always memorised Koran lessons but he used to skip classes. A police investigator claimed nobody from the victim's family was interested in the registration of case which eventually pushed the police to act according to law.
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He claimed he initially rejected Ramzan's idea of chaining Umair, but the madressah Nazim told him to do so.
I think he got off easy.
Now if he were a Catholic, the Nuns would not have let him off so easy for skipping class.
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[DAWN] An bomb damaged the house of a trader in Mazharabad locality of Ratta Amral early Monday.
However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... nobody was injured in the low-intensity kaboom outside the residence of Muhibullah Khan, a native of Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central ...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth... "After returning from Fajr prayers, I was reciting the holy Koran when the kaboom rocked my house," Mr Khan told Dawn.
He said though none of the inmates was injured, the outer gate and windowpanes of the house were damaged.
He claimed that he had been receiving threats from unknown people who had also demanded money.
"I received an anonymous call on my mobile phone on March 19 and the caller demanded money. But he did not say where and how I should deliver him the amount."
He said he did not take the threat seriously.
Mr Khan added that he did not see the bomb while returning home nor notice any suspicious person outside.
When contacted, Raja Taifoor, the deputy superintendent of police (city), told Dawn that Mr Khan had been receiving threats after he started pursuing a triple murder case.
Three people, including two brothers, were killed and three others injured by gunnies in Bara Market at Raja Bazaar on December 13, 2013. The dear departed also belonged to Bajaur Agency. Being the general secretary of the market union, Mr Khan was pursuing the murder case, said the DSP.
"The motive behind the kaboom was only to terrorise the family. If their motive was to kill him, they would have shot him dead," the DSP said.
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In a significant step towards completing the nuclear triad available with a few nations, India has successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable ballistic missile launched from an underwater platform with a range of over 2,000 kms.
The missile, which can be launched from submarines, was test-fired yesterday in the Bay of Bengal and all parameters were met, Defence Ministry sources said.
This is the longest range missile in the underwater category to have been developed by India.
With this development, India has developed the capability of launching long-range nuclear-capable missile from surface, air and underwater.
Defence Minister AK Antony has congratulated the team of scientists involved in the tests.
Launch from a submarine and integration of the three types of capabilities will mean completion of the nuclear triad, which is available only with a few countries like the US, France, Russia and China.
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India test fires SLBM(W)
Good to see India has not lost it's love of fast vehicles ;=)
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Of course he did. He's The Smartest Man In The Room.
[AnNahar] U.S. President Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... on Tuesday hit out at Moscow's expansionism as a "sign of weakness" after Russia took control of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine, fueling fears of further intervention in the region.
"Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors, not out of strength but out of weakness," Obama told journalists after a nuclear security summit in The Hague.
Obama said that while the U.S. also has influence over its neighbors, "we generally don't need to invade them in order to have a strong cooperative relationship with them."
The Crimean crisis has sparked the most explosive East-West confrontation since the Cold War era and fanned fears in Kiev that Russian 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... now intends to push his troops into the heavily Russified regions of southeast Ukraine.
"The fact that Russia felt (the need) to go in militarily and lay bare these violations of international law indicates less influence, not more," Obama said, rejecting Putin's claim that Russian speakers had been threatened in Crimea and in Ukraine.
"There has been no evidence that Russian speakers have been in any way threatened," Obama said, the day after a Group of Seven summit suspended Russia from the grouping of rich nations.
"I think it is important for everybody to be clear and strip away some of the possible excuses for potential Russian action," he said, before heading for his first European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... -U.S. summit in Brussels.
Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday sacked the crisis-hit country's defense minister, after his forces undertook a humiliating withdrawal from Crimea without firing a shot against Russian forces who claimed the Black Sea peninsula.
Crimea's effective loss -- though recognized by no Western power -- has dealt a heavy psychological blow to many Ukrainians who have already spent the past years mired in corruption and economic malaise.
Ukraine's ground commanders in Crimea had complained bitterly of confusion among the top brass in Kiev since Putin's decision on March 1 to seek the right to use force against his neighbor in response to last month's fall in Kiev of a pro-Kremlin regime.
Some 228 deputies in the 450-seat Verkhovna Rada parliament supported Igor Tenyukh's dismissal after the acting defense minister tendered his resignation in an emotional address broadcast live to the nation of 46 million people.
"I have never clung on to my job, and I don't intend to do so now," Tenyukh said. "I have honor."
Tuesday's session gave politicians a chance to voice growing frustrations with how the new Western-backed leaders have handled their jobs since coming to power on the back of three months of deadly protests whose ultimate aim was to eliminate the corruption and Kremlin dependence that have weighed on Ukraine throughout its post-Soviet history.
"We gave up Crimea to the Russians thanks to our unprofessionalism," independent politician Igor Palytsya fumed. "We gave up Crimea thanks to our indecision."
Tensions between the two neighbors seemed ready to spike further when Russian television aired what it claimed was a tape of former Ukrainian premier Yulia Tymoshenko -- an opposition leader released from jail after the pro-Kremlin regime's fall -- urging the "wiping out" of Russians over the seizure of Crimea.
Tymoshenko admitted that her voice was on the tape but insisted that her comments had been manipulated.
Obama's G7 summit in The Hague sought to ward off the threat of further Russian expansion with a more forceful response after two rounds of only targeted sanctions that hit only specific officials but left Russia's broader economy untouched.
The G7 agreed on Monday to deepen Moscow's isolation and meet on its own -- without Russia -- in Brussels instead of gathering in Sochi in June.
Obama on Monday said the group was "united in imposing a cost on Russia for its actions", in reference to the travel bans and asset freezes imposed by the West on key members of Putin's inner circle.
Russia's loss of the right to host the G8 summit is a moral blow to Putin -- a leader whose 14 years in power have focused on resurrecting the Kremlin's post-Soviet pride.
But the Kremlin on Tuesday shrugged off the seven world leaders' decision as "counter-productive" but otherwise harmless.
"When it comes to contacts with the G8 countries, we are ready for them, we have an interest in them," Kremlin front man Dmitry Peskov told the ITAR-TASS news agency.
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"Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors, not out of strength but out of weakness."
The person who wrote, read and spoke this statement is living in an alternative reality, disconnected from the continuum of contemplative focused people.
Sign of weakness ?
Please look in a mirror at your next opportunity, weakness is who you will see... have you focused upon yourself yet ?
Here take a look
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Russia is imposing her will on others, using armed force.
Post 9/11 the US has not imposed her will on any adversary.
Huge concessions were made to the 9/11 attackers' associates and accomplices.
I.e. others imposed their will on the US, using armed force.
Making use of one's power by committing an act of explorative and opportunistic aggression may be immoral. Objectively it is a demonstration of actual capability, not weakness.
Wizard of Oz: Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.
- though today, the term accreditation more apply describes would academia does (ie paper mill). The 'centers of higher learning' they've long ago left for the pastures of self selection promotion and financial enrichment. Up till now, its been confined enough to the reservation to limit the damage they do.
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Obama said that while the U.S. also has influence over its neighbors, "we generally don't need to invade them in order to have a strong cooperative relationship with them."
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P2K, I call that the "Scarecrow Principle". You don't need an education any more, all you need is a diploma.
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Jerry Pournelle recently added: of course President Obama will reward China and Russia with increased control over the Internet by letting ICANN go to the UN which means fall under the control of Russia and China. ICANN aint broke but President Obama will fix it.See NPR
"'If EPA is not careful, this rule could effectively give the federal government control of nearly all of our state -- and prove to be a showstopper for both traditional access and new development,' [Murkowski] said."
That's the idea, honey. >:-(
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Can someone explain to me where the line is that once crossed demands a response of armed insurrection?
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So my driveway would be under EPA regulations since it sometimes has a puddle of water on it. The EPA needs to be utterly destroyed and the land where it's offices sits salted so nothing will ever grow there again.
Next: the EPA declares authority over all land which has air in, above, or below it under the Clean Air Act.
Mr. Putin has beaucoup information, courtesy of Mr. Snowden, that Mr. Obama does not want made public. Therefore, Mr. Obama reverts to a turbocharged version of shrinking violet in fear that Mr. Putin will drop a dime on him.
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As TV station Rossiya 1 graciously reminded us, Russia is the only power that can wipe out the U.S.
Sute they won't survive to see it but they CAN.
So much for regional power.
Is there ANY part of the world Obama hasn't messed up with his incompetence?
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Now that Europe realizes that they can no longer rely on the now leftist dominated United States of America, the EU will have to focus on developing a military that will be the next major force in the world.
"Just the boys working off some steam. Nothing to get fussed about."
[AnNahar] A personal dispute erupted into gunfire in the Shatila Paleostinian refugee camp near Beirut's Tariq al-Jedideh neighborhood on Tuesday, sparking panic in the area in the wake of the deadly festivities that broke out near the Sports City on Sunday.
"A dispute between members of the al-Shamma family erupted into gunfire in the Shatila camp," a military source told al-Jadeed television.
The TV network had earlier reported that "festivities renewed in the Western Neighborhood behind the Sports City amid heavy gunfire."
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!... a military source denied to MTV that fighting broke out anew in the Western Neighborhood, saying the gunshots were heard during a dispute in the Shatila camp.
On Sunday, at least one person was killed and 13 others maimed in fierce festivities between armed Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... and supporters of Arab Movement Party leader Shaker al-Berjawi near the Sports City in Beirut.
Later on Tuesday, MTV aired a live report from the Western Neighborhood, saying the district "did not witness festivities" although "supporters of Shaker al-Berjawi headed to the neighborhood and shot up several houses."
"Residents called the army and troops have deployed in the area," it said.
"We tried to contact Shaker al-Berjawi but he did not answer and the army quickly deployed in force after the shooting in this neighborhood," MTV's correspondent said.
He noted that "troops also deployed on rooftops and they are on high alert."
It was not immediately clear if the incidents in Shatila and the nearby Western Neighborhood were connected.
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
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[INFOWARS] Professor of Computer Science Dr. Kristian Hammond predicts that by 2030, 90 per cent of all news stories will be written not by human 
[Al Ahram] Egypt's prosecutor-general has referred a police officer working in South Sinai to a criminal court for the attempted rape of a Russian tourist in Sharm El-Sheikh. 
[AnNahar] Venezuela has 
[AnNahar] Forest fires on a mountain overlooking Caracas knocked out power to downtown areas of the city Tuesday and officials said they suspected the blazes were set deliberately.
[Al Ahram] Ukraine's parliament sacked the crisis-hit country's besieged defence minister Tuesday after his forces began a humiliating withdrawal from Crimea without firing a shot against Russian forces who claimed the Black Sea peninsula. 
...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...
[DAWN] Police took a teenage boy in protective custody on Monday after he fled a seminary with a heavy steel chain tied to his feet.
[DAWN] An 
...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth...
