[Weasel Zippers] Some very interesting comments. I see the police made a special effort to protect gov't buildings. Private business places, not so much. Actually, listening to the Missouri State Police scanner last night, firefighters were held back from buildings which were fully involved, or near which gunfire could be heard. Since government buildings have little to offer in the way of loot, once looters were done with a business, the looters lit them up.
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See what you started? If you just gave sh*t away, none of this ever would have happened.
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Or business owners could move out of Ferguson, and turn it into Cairo (Illinois).
The community and region are working to stop abandonment of the city, restore its architectural landmarks, and develop heritage tourism focusing on its history, to bring new opportunities to the community.
The city faces many significant socio-economic challenges for the remaining population, including poverty, crime, issues in education, unemployment and rebuilding its tax base. Wikipedia
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Lambert's in Sikeston, Mo. has been a stopping point for us many times over the years. Great fun.
Paducah, Ky isn't too far away, either. Nice town, good people, good restaurants (plus, my wife occasionally quilts - the 'National Quilt Museum' is there).
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I don't know what the fire codes, and enforcement of, are in Furgy, but I have seen many a safety video of commercial strips being death traps on a good day, with interconnected roof elements.
On a good day, once a building is involved and there is no longer any chance of patients, it is a surround and drown situation.
Also as a guideline, operations should start after the police have secured the area - usually a traffic and gawkers hazard. You want a firefighter to go into an active riot and put out fire, they need one of those Airport rigs, up-armored, with a 3" monitor capable of putting out 1/10 second bursts, and remote re-filling.
While I'm at it, a flash-bang system.
Now, you wanna talk about a Martin Mars mission, call it in.
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Any word yet from the Governor as to why he held the NG back the first night? Many on the ground there are speculating that Holder or Champ leaned on him so the black criminals could 'burn the bitch down.'
Would like to hear his Gov'norness refute that; so far only crickets.
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Many on the ground there are speculating that Holder or Champ leaned on him
The MO Lt. Governor made this charge publicly. (so much for message discipline!) The Gov, in a burst of fiery righteous anger, denied it was a political decision. However, he did not actually come out and say yes or no that BO & Co leaned on him.
I can understand wanting to minimize police presence to reduce tension. But you can judge the results of that idea for yourself. Given the presence of outside agitators as well as the level of feeling, a show of force might have kept the lid on. At the very least, you would have some manpower to contain the chaos.
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To be frank the store owner should have taken whatever insurance money he got after the first riots and moved the heck away from the area. I mean really, who didn't see this coming?
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Looking at random after action videos of Fergistan, the police presence around the burnt out buildings is impressive; where were they before the matches were lit?
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By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
American and Ukrainian military and US state department officials appear to be preparing requests for lethal aid for the Ukrainian military from the US, recently disclosed documents revealed.
Tuesday the pro Russian hacking group CyberBerkut disclosed a number of English and Ukrainian language government documents the group says are an indication of all out war against the Donbas rebels of southeastern Ukraina.
The documents are said to have been stolen from the "mobile device" of a member of the US delegation to Ukraina that visited the country last November 21st.
The United States has been providing non-lethal military aid to the Ukrainian Army and Navy since the start of the civil war last May, including such items as boots and food as well as military training. Donbas rebels following last summer's campaign near Ilovaisk frequently recovered wrappers for Meals Ready to Eat (MREs) from positions abandoned by Ukrainian military units.
Current US policy is for non-lethal aid only, but with the new American Congress to be seated in January, a much friendlier political climate has emerged which could give way to the beginning of lethal aid, primarily in the form of guns and small bore artillery.
The hacker group on its website laments "funding levels staggering in scope" shown in the documents, including travel expenses prepaid by the US government to Ukrainian army officers for travel from Kiev to Lvov and Zhitomir and back.
The expenses paid totaled UAH $548,000 (USD $36,557.43), and was for the travel expenses of 12 Ukrainian officers for travel during the exercise.
Lvov is a training area that the United States and NATO use to train foreign troops the Ukrainians will use in southeastern Ukraina. The document said the expenses were paid as part of US support for last September's battalion-level ground exercises dubbed "Rapid Trident-2014".
According to information supplied at the NATO website, the exercise ended September 26th.
Among the documents released are a Letter of Notification, a Presidential Drawdown letter, a Memorandum to the Secretary of State, and two letters of determination. The two letters of determination outline the statutes under which aid is provided and transferred from the US government to the Ukrainian government, and are both signed by John Kerry.
The letters also indicate that a total of USD $25 million is available in non-lethal aid to the Ukrainian government in its current war on the Donbas rebels.
The Memorandum to the Secretary of State is signed by President Barack Obama. Three documents are destined to be posted in the Federal Register. All four documents deal with the transfer of 12 mobile counterbattery radars, three of which have already been delivered the the Ukrainian military.
What has disturbed the Cyberberkut group, and by extension the Donbas rebel leaders is a list of weapons for the Ukrainian armed forces and a list of equipment for its naval forces, mainly in the form of combat swimmers' equipment.
The list of arms, which can only be part of a list of equipment the Ukrainian military will request when the new Congress is seated next January, includes:
30 7.62x51mm M110 Heckler & Koch sniper rifles
100 .338 Caliber Lapua sniper rifles
1,000 5.56x45mm SCAR-L Rifles
1,000 7.62x51 NATO SCAR-H rifles
150 12x99mm M-107 Barrett brand sniper rifles with scopes
200,000 Rounds 5.56x45mm ammunition
150,000 Rounds 7.62x51mm NATO ammunition
100,000 Rounds .338 Lapua ammunition
80,000 Rounds 12x99mm ammunition
40 M-224A1 60mm mortars
20,000 Shells for 60mm mortars
145 M252 81mm mortars
43,500 Shells for 81mm Mortars
40 M120 120mm mortars
16,000 Shells for 120mm mortars
720 MGL-140 grenade launchers (40mm)
72,000 Rounds 40mm grenades
80 TOW II antitank missiles/launchers
420 TOW II missiles
150 Stinger MANPAD SAMs
280 MRAP armored personnel carriers
1,312 HMMVs
The remainder of the list has to do with radio and communications gear for ground forces.
The other list, for naval equipment has the hacker group stumped, because it includes a number of items used specifically by combat swimmers. The group questions whether the Ukrainian naval forces have any combat swimmers.
Other documents released by the hacker group include a request for HMMWVs, a purchase or transfer proposal for radio and communications gear to be used in the civil war in the Donbas region, a request for US made counterbattery radars, ground surveillance radars, UAVs and accessories.
Other requests include thermal imaging devices and accessories, sleeping bags, generators, water bottles, refrigerators, fuel pumps, automotive equipment and accessories.
The total list for weapons is small relative to the size of the Ukrainian armed forces, so the most significant items appear to be the 1,312 HMMWVs, the thermal imaging devices and the drones. Rebels have charged that the Ukrainian armed forces are already using thermal imaging devices.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraina by clicking here.
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$1b a year may enable Ukraine to send enough Russians back in body bags for Putin to back off. That's the beauty of proxy wars, as we discovered fighting Russian money in Korea and Vietnam, and the Russians discovered fighting our money in Afghanistan.
[AnNahar] Chinese ships returned to territorial waters around islands at the centre of a dispute with Japan on Tuesday, the coastguard said, the first incursion since a Sino-Japanese summit aimed at reducing tensions.
Three Chinese coastguard vessels sailed into the 12-nautical-mile zone around the Japanese-controlled Senkaku islands, which China claims and calls the Diaoyus, shortly after 10:00 am (01:00 GMT), the Japanese coastguard said. They left two hours later.
The move has become a familiar one over the last two years as Asia's largest economies squabbled over the ownership of the uninhabited chain, but had not happened since a meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe raised hopes of a detente.
True to form, both sides were hailing the other to warn them to leave the area, the Japanese coastguard front man said.
Relations between Japan and China have been in deep freeze over the ownership of the islands and what Beijing views as Japan's rewriting of history -- especially concerning World War II.
After his meeting with Xi, Abe said "Japan and China, we need each other."
The get-together on November 10 was seen as a symbolic first step toward reconciliation, but one that was short on details.
Chinese ships last entered the islands' territorial waters on November 3, the Japanese coastguard said.
#1
When Blacks kill each other in large numbers most blacks don't care much. When a white cop ends up killing a black trying to stop that crime, suddenly they care. That is racism.
#3
and the perennial Banlieue Car-B-Ques are caused by?
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note: the Louvre is an actual "glass house"
Posted by: Frank G ||
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She's black. That explains a lot. I suspect French citoyens descended from the Gauls will desert the Socialist Party in droves come the next election.
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The European concept of "justice" reminds me of when my wife talks to be about how things "should" be. And, assuming no change in trajectory, it soon shall be ours.
[AnNahar] French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... on Tuesday delayed the controversial delivery of a high-tech warship to Russia "until further notice" over the Ukraine crisis.
"The President of the Republic considers that the current situation in eastern Ukraine still does not allow for the delivery of the first" warship, Hollande's office said in a statement.
"He therefore decided to delay until further notice" the decision on whether to grant the export licence needed to deliver the ship to Russia, the statement added.
Russia has reportedly warned Gay Paree of "serious" consequences unless La Belle France delivers the first of two Mistral-class helicopter carriers on order by the end of November.
The first of the two assault ships was supposed to be delivered earlier this month, according to the original deal signed in 2011.
But amid the Ukraine crisis and the rapid decline in the West's relations with Russia, La Belle France has come under intense pressure from its allies, particularly the United States, and in September postponed the delivery.
Earlier Tuesday, La Belle France's foreign minister said the conditions were not right to deliver the warship to Russia.
"We consider that the conditions for delivery are not met, for reasons that are obvious today," Laurent Fabius told La Belle France Inter radio.
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"Until further notice" likely being on the day after Christmas in the middle of the night at first high tide. While there's fireworks on the other side of town.
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Will they refund what Russians already paid them?
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Think I saw the reporters addresses linked on Gatewaypundit. Not sure where, but I know it was posted. Or rather, who that person which believed they had the correct addresses, posted. Really hope to see some video of these scumbags questioned outside their house.
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See them as an example of how even an unarmed assailant can beat you to a bloody pulp using only their fists.
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If weren't able to lie, he wouldn't be a tenured professor.
Except that there are all those video tapes, g(r)omgoru. I imagine they won't ask him what he thinks, but to explain why he said X, Y, and Z. One of the Carolinas, if I recall correctly, just released him from,his contract on account of it. Don't like to be thought among the stupids, I s'pose.
But didn't we all read about similar predictions, even from the massively-less-educated Rantburgers?
[with sincere apologies to those 'burgets as well-educated as Professor Gruber. And to those with more common sense. And those with above-room-temperature IQs. Did I miss anybody?]
Posted by: Bobby ||
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This is why I can't stand listening to Obama anymore. Last Friday when he gave his speech about immigration I skipped it. Might have watched Gilligan's Island or something. What's the point in listening to this man when you know he's a damn liar?
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[AnNahar] A teenage Pak girl has been rubbed out by her uncle following a row over loud music, police said Tuesday.
The incident happened Saturday in the Kallar Kahar valley in Punjab province's Chakwal district, around 120 kilometers (75 miles) from the capital Islamabad.
"The girl Rehana Bibi was alone at her home and was listening to music when her uncle Muhammad Gulistan... came to her house and asked to lower the volume," Sadat Ali, an official on duty at Kallar Kahar cop shoppe, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"On her refusal, they quarrelled and Gulistan shot her dead," said Ali, adding that Bibi was aged about 17.
Another police official, Ali Akbar, said they were attempting to arrest the killer.
Police said they were not aware of any family feud leading up to the attack.
In Pakistain's highly patriarchal and often violent society, women are frequently killed over minor issues or so-called matters of "honour".
The Aurat Foundation, a campaign group that works to improve women's lives in Pakistain, says more than 3,000 have been killed for "honour" since 2008.
[AnNahar] OPEC's biggest crude producer Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... will have its sights set on the upstart U.S. shale oil business at a crucial cartel meeting to debate possible output cuts on Thursday.
Analysts say the kingdom is content to see shale oil producers -- and even some members of the cartel -- suffer from low prices and will resist pressure to reduce output and shore up the cost of oil.
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British SAS have developed the idea....they are effectively tackling ISIS in Iraq using quad-bikes, which can be used for more than rounding up sheep.
She probably had no desire to face a grueling congressional confirmation process, or take a pay cut in order to accept a short-term job in a failed regime. BIO found here.
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no desire to face a grueling congressional confirmation process,
Not to mention the daily pain of having your job micro-managed by Rice and ValJar. After the Gates and Panetta tell-alls and Hagel publicly getting the boot, this is going to be a hard spot to fill with anyone possessing at least a shred of competence and integrity. Hey, maybe Jay Carney would be up to the task.
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She's also been on the board of a Democratic think tank, the Center for a New American Security, which trains young Democrats (well, train is such a relative word).
I'm just speculating here but I wonder if she sees life as a thinker at the CNAS to be preferable to the hassles of actually implementing her great thoughts as SecDef.
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Don't put anyone in the position and let Susan Rice and ValJar micromanage, because that is what they will do anywan. O can do indoor golfing. Nothing changes. No scapegoats, let O & Co live with the consequences of their actions.
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She stated she want to be SecDef, just in a Hillary Clinton administration.
[WashingtonTimes] The Veterans Affairs Department removed the head of its Phoenix hospital facility Monday, more than six months after whistleblowers said veterans were dying while on secret wait-lists there, though veterans groups said the department still has a long way to go to rebuild trust.
Sharon Helman, the director of the Phoenix VA health care system, was officially fired Monday, though she has been on administrative leave since May.
"Lack of oversight and misconduct by VA leaders runs counter to our mission of serving veterans, and VA will not tolerate it," said Secretary Bob McDonald in a statement. "We depend on VA employees and leaders to put the needs of veterans first and honor VA's core values."
Glenn Grippen, a former VA administrator, will continue to lead the Phoenix facility until a permanent director is named. The VA said in a statement that it hoped to name Ms. Helman's successor "as quickly as possible."
The Phoenix facility came under fire earlier this year when whistleblowers said at least 40 veterans died while waiting for care. Investigations later found systemic problems of long wait times and poor-quality care at facilities across the country, leading to former Secretary Eric Shinseki's resignation.
Lawmakers have been pushing the VA to hold those responsible for the scandal accountable and have complained that justice is coming too slow, despite a new law that gives Mr. McDonald more firing power for senior staff.
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.
Not been there in years, but Lambert's isn't too far south. If you left there hungry, it was your own fault. 
[AnNahar] A teenage Pak girl has been 
