[Iran Press TV] A shooting in a house in the US state of Nebraska has left three people dead and five others injured, according to police.
Cops responded to a shooting in the northwest part of Omaha, Nebraska's biggest city, in the early hours of Saturday and found several people injured by gunshot wounds along with two young women killed, the Omaha Police Department said in a statement.
Police said 19-year-old JaKela Foster and 24-year-old Latecia Fox died at the scene, while 26-year-old Cameron Harris died several hours later at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
All of the 5 maimed victims were at the hospital and in stable, pH balanced condition as of late Saturday afternoon, said Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmadere.
Kristina Young, whose daughter Ja'Kela Foster was killed in the shooting, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that there was a party going on at the house when the shooting happened on Friday night.
Ja'Kela left a one-year-old son behind, her mother said.
"To the person who pulled the trigger, I want to say it's just senseless. It just needs to stop. I now have a 1-year-old grandson that has no mother," Young said.
Omaha police did not say if it had any suspects in jug related to the incident.
During the party, as many as 50 people were in and around the vacated small home in Omaha, according to media reports.
They were partying in an abandoned house? Not upstanding citizens, one assumes.
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Is this more of that Black on Black killing to ignore?
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Gangs of youts - Snitches get stitches "Gunfire erupted during a crowded party in a vacant house in Omaha early Saturday, leaving three people dead and five wounded, and most witnesses refusing to help investigators, according to police."
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"To the person who pulled the trigger, I want to say it's just senseless. It just needs to stop. I now have a 1-year-old grandson that has no mother," Young said
Can't the boy's father take care of him? Oh, right.
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THE last British soldier injured in the final minutes of the Falklands War was laid to rest in Oxfordshire yesterday.
Cowley Mini plant security worker and father-of-three Ian Morton, who died on New Yearâs Eve, was described as an âunsung heroâ as dozens of comrades gathered to pay tribute to him at Banbury Crematorium.
The 52-year-old was found dead in his home in Upper Heyford, near Bicester, on January 1, a day after he suffered a heart attack.
On the morning of June 14, 1982, he was hit by a grenade and shrapnel in ferocious fighting during the Battle of Mount Tumbledown.
Comrades said Mr Morton, a sniper in the Scots Guards, had been in an advanced and exposed position attacking Argentine forces when he was hit and suffered back injuries. It was half an hour before the Argentinians surrendered.
His ex-wife Karen, daughter Candice, 30, and sons Robert, 26, and Ross, 21, travelled from Scotland to be at his funeral. Current wife Rebecca and stepdaughter Sasha were also in attendance.
Mr Morton was born and raised in Newarthill, near Motherwell, Scotland. Candice said: âI will remember his sense of humour and his stories. The last time I saw him was last year, just a few weeks after the birth of my son Daniel.
âHe was so excited to be a grandfather and we had a precious week together. He was supposed to come up and stay at New Year and he did not arrive and I called the police.
âHe had been packing his bags to come when he had a heart attack and he just never made it.â
Mr Morton had lived in Oxfordshire since 2005 and moved to the Upper Heyford six months ago.
He previously lived in Tusmore, near Bicester, after he moved to Oxfordshire from his native Scotland. For the last six months he had worked for security firm Wilson James at the Mini plant in Cowley.
He was medically discharged from the army with the rank of Sergeant in 1993 as a result of injuries sustained at Mount Tumbledown.
After he returned from the Falklands Mr Morton trained Scots Guards recruits.
His funeral cortege was led by motorbike riders from the All Arms Veterans Motorcycle Club and his coffin was draped in a union flag.
His platoon commander during the Falklands War, Capt Robert Lawrence, delivered a eulogy at the funeral.
Cpt Lawrence was shot in the head during the Battle of Mount Tumbledown.
He said: âI will remember him as a human being, not as a soldier, a man who I loved.â
Kevin Gorman was one of the young soldiers Mr Morton trained and he travelled from London for the funeral.
He: âI call him an unsung hero of the Falklands War. He was extremely brave.â
Prime Minister David Cameron said he was saddened to hear of the death. He added: âOur forcesâ contribution to the security and future of the islanders will never be forgotten and my thoughts go out to Mr Mortonâs friends and family at what I know will be a very difficult time for them all.â
They went with songs to the battle, they were young. Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again; They sit no more at familiar tables of home; They have no lot in our labour of the day-time; They sleep beyond England's foam.
~ Binyon
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Falklands and Grenada were small wars that don't get much attention, which is a real shame. They were both as significant as any single battle during WWII.
[c/net] As pontiffs go, Pope Francis isn't much of a pontificator. Instead, he's shown himself to be a mostly kind, thoughtful and straightforward human being.
He chose Christmas, for example, to excoriate the hypocrisy of his own church's cardinals, as they bathe in a "pathology of power." That gold jewelry just doesn't send the right message.
Today, for World Communications Day, the pope offered the thought that perhaps our gadgets are making us less, well, human. Spot on! IMA awaiting my USAA 'good Catholic/Baptist/Methodist/Amish driver' insurance discount ?
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Where is a Bizarro World Icon of Zimbabwe when we need it?
The white farmers are the only thing keeping that freaking train wreck afloat.
ZimBob has to blame it on someone to deflect attention from him.
Zimbabwe is the next Somalia, when Mgabe and his cronies lose the reins.
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Doesn't Chinese loans and trade for minerals help buoy them a bit too? Of course they're starting to blame the Chinese for troubles now too...
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I remember reading somewhere the population of Chinese is about 200 thousand in Zimbabwe. They located there to acquire many different things.No child limits also. They marry off sons for blood connection so they aren't so easily kicked out. They go where they have fewer fellow Chinese to compete with also. Zimbabwe had been the bread basket of Africa. Now they import their foods.
[Iran Press TV] The upper house of the parliament, Senate, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... has scrapped a proposed change to a controversial election law that would allow President Joseph Kabila to extend his stay in power.
The senators on Friday agreed to modify the proposed law, which had already been passed by the lower house -- the National Assembly -- in its original form.
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President Joseph Kabila to extend his stay in power.
[Washington Post] Zambia's acting chief justice has announced that Edgar Lungu of the Patriotic Front has won the presidential election.
Acting Chief Justice Lombe Chibesakunda said Saturday that Lungu had received 48.3 percent of the vote after all 150 constituencies in the southern African nation were counted.
Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development came in second with 46.7 percent of the vote.
Zambians voted on Jan. 20, and the polls were extended by an extra day, due to heavy rain in certain areas.
The election was held to replace President Michael Sata, who died in October after a long illness. Lungu will serve out Sata's term until elections next year.
Lungu, who heads Zambia's justice and defense ministries, said he wants to complete economic development projects initiated by Sata.
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[FOXNEWS] The rocket attacks on Saturday on public places in the Ukraine city of Mariupol that killed 30 people drew rebuke from Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... and other world leaders who says the strikes were executed by Russian-backed separatists.
"I join my European counterparts in condemning in the strongest terms today's horrific assault by Russia-backed separatists on civilian neighborhoods," Kerry said.
He also suggests more international economic sanctions on Russian if Moscow continues to arm and finance the separatist, or anti-government forces, in Ukraine, in violation of a peace deal between the countries reached last year.
"We call on Russia to end its support for separatists immediately, close the international border with Ukraine and withdraw all weapons, fighters and financial backing," Kerry also said in a statement. "Otherwise, U.S. and international pressure on Russia and its proxies will only increase."
On Saturday, rocket fire slammed into a market, two schools and homes in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, about 25 kilometers outside of the ceasefire line.
Ukraine's top rebel leader said an offensive had begun on the strategically important port.
Ukraine's president called an emergency meeting of his military officials and cut short a trip to 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... to rush back to coordinate the government's response.
The rocket attacks came a day after the rebels rejected a peace deal and announced they were going on a multi-prong offensive against the government in Kiev to vastly increase their territory. The rebel stance has upended European attempts to mediate an end to the fighting in eastern Ukraine, which the U.N. says has killed nearly 5,100 people since April.
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[BBC] Eastern Ukraine's main rebel leader says he has launched an offensive against the government-held port city of Mariupol.
His comments came after a series of rocket attacks which Ukrainian media said had left 27 people dead and many others injured in the city.
Grad rockets ...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km.... hit a market in a residential eastern area of Mariupol, the city's police chief said.
Since April, more than 5,000 people have died in fighting in the east.
The rebels have seized a large swathe of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. More than a million people have been displaced.
Rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko said on Friday that he did not want truce talks with Kiev.
A ceasefire was agreed in Minsk in September but never fully took hold. Many hoped that the lower level of hostilities it introduced would last, but the BBC's David Stern says that the fighting is beginning to approach what was seen last summer.
Mariupol has a population of 500,000 and is in a highly strategic position, sitting between rebel-held eastern areas and Crimea, which was annexed by Russia last March. The city saw heavy fighting in August.
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About 3.1 million wage and salary earners in Germany had an income below the poverty threshold, according to Saturday's edition of the SaarbrĂźcker Zeitung newspaper.
The paper cited an overview from Germany's Federal Statistical Office showing the most recent available data, which covered the year 2013. It also showed the numbers of workers struggling to make ends meet jumped from about 2.5 million in 2008 - an increase of 25 percent in five years.
Data, based on household surveys, showed that those living on low wages were cutting back on food and heating, among other things, to save money. According to a special analysis by the statisticians, in 2013 some 538,000 low-wage workers were eating a full meal only every second day in an effort to save money on food. About 417,000 were going without adequate heating and almost 380,000 people could not afford to pay their rent on time.
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Germans don't traditionally riot for More Free Stuff(tm) and most realize that if you burn down the shops and stores in your own neighborhood that usually that means no more easy access to goods and services.
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Dear Germans: those immigrants you're told you have to accept in ever larger numbers, who are turning your cities into little Beiruts, are living off the money that could be creating real, productive jobs.
PS -- don't go overboard this time. Just send them back where they came from.
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A Syriza government ''will not comply with the agreements signed by its predecessors'', party leader Alexis Tsipras told a press conference on Friday. He said that ''our party will abide by the obligations deriving from Greece's participation in European institutions, but austerity is not part of the EU's founding treaties.''
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will represent the United States at the 70th anniversary ceremony for the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on Tuesday, rather than President Barack Obama or Vice President Joe Biden, while other countries are slated to send their heads of state.
Tuesday's ceremony will likely be the last major anniversary where a significant number of survivors of the Nazi camp are present. About 300 are expected to attend, and most of them are in their 90s or older than 100. Nazi authorities killed 1.1 million people at the camp, mostly Jews, which was liberated by the Soviet army in January, 1945.
The New York Times reported:
A preliminary list of those attending includes President François Hollande of France, President Joachim Gauck of Germany and President Heinz Fischer of Austria, as well as King Philippe of Belgium, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark. The United States delegation will be led by Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said he would not attend because his schedule was too crowded and because he had not received an invitation. Museum officials said no head of state had received one. Mr. Putin had attended the 60th anniversary ceremony in 2005 -- it was Soviet troops, after all, who liberated the camp in 1945 -- but relations between Russia and Poland have soured over the conflict in Ukraine.
British Prime Minister David Cameron visited the camp last month and toured it with the state museum director.
Bernadette Meehan, National Security Council spokeswoman, said in an email that, “President Obama will be in India, on a long-scheduled trip.”
He's jetting to Saoodi-controlled Arabia to bow to pay his respects to the new King Salman, so it's not like the schedule is set in stone...
The Obama administration faced a barrage of criticism earlier this month when it declined to send Obama or Secretary of State John Kerry to a march in Paris expressing solidarity with the victims of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack. The heads of Great Britain, Germany, and Israel all attended.
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Did anyone really expect this asshole to show any class whatsoever?
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Sending Jack Lew is pretty much flipping them the bird...
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He's not campaigning again, remember? He won both his elections, no additional funding required. He's got more flexibility now. He can go 'Jeremiah Wright' on the Jew with total impunity.
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Can't because it would give him too much of an urge to do exactly that to all those counter revolutionary reactionaries conservatives in his own country. Can't have the man laughing and joking while feeling that. Bad place and time.
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Rahm Emanuel, Axelrod, Wasserman Schultz and others have distanced themselves from the Champ. There is a most definite schism. My assessment is they've discovered the reality of power within the regime.
Turkey has no interest in the issue of accession to the European Union, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
Perhaps he's found a stronger horse...
He said currently, Ankara is testing the EU to find out whether this organization is really a democratic system, or a Christian club, TRT Haber TV channel reported on Jan.24.
If any state in EU thinks that Turkey will beg for accession to this structure, then it is mistaken, said Erdogan.
The official negotiations on Turkey's accession to the EU were resumed in 2005.
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc earlier said that if previously 75 percent of Turkey’s population supported the country’s accession to the EU, currently, this figure has dropped to 20 percent.
Turkey has fulfilled 65 percent of its commitments to the EU for accession to this organization.
Earlier, the country’s Minister for EU Affairs Volkan Bozkir said the negotiations between Turkey and EU can’t continue in the format required by the organization. He said at the time that democracy in Turkey is at a higher level than in some European countries.
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Heavily subsidized by the provably failed "Green" policies of the leadership in Washington, DC.
An ambitious and controversial push to erect America's first offshore wind farm has been dealt what some call a potentially "fatal" blow after two utility companies pulled out of commitments to buy energy from the lagging operation.
The $2.6 billion Cape Wind project, a private operation benefiting from millions in federal subsidies,
"How many millions in federal subsidies?"
"About 2600 of 'em..."
is attempting to pioneer offshore wind energy in pursuit of an eco-friendly, sustainable energy supply. Wind turbines would be installed off the coast of Massachusetts' Cape Cod in Nantucket Sound.
But Cape Wind is now in limbo after utility companies terminated huge purchase agreements. They pulled out after the project failed to meet two requirements by Dec. 31: to secure financing and begin construction.
The wind farm was relying on NSTAR and National Grid to purchase a combined 77.5 percent of its offshore wind power.
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There's a few companies in and around the Cape (Plymouth, mostly) who were are in the business of refurbing old windmills turbines from Europe; looks like they'll be titzup in a few months now.
In addition to chronic infrastructure problems, the energy sector is also trapped into a vicious "circular debt" brought on by the dual effect of the government setting low electricity prices and customers failing to pay for it. Wanna' bet there is some government prohibition against cutting people off for non-payment?
State utilities therefore lose money, and cannot pay private power generating companies, which in turn cannot pay the oil and gas suppliers, who cut off the supply. Comes The Answer(TM): Nationalization of the power-generating companies in 3..2..1.....
Centralized Control -> greater systemic risks.Distributed power generation with hacker-proof handshaking/electron-sharing, although less leveraged at the management and resource inputs levels, carries less risk.
[Pak Daily Times] Pakistain suddenly plunged into darkness late Saturday night following a major power breakdown, as most of the cities including Islamabad, Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , Lahore, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. and Quetta witnessed a large blackout. According to TV channels, 17 districts in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... suffered a sudden power breakdown. According to Quetta Electric Supply Company (QESCO) officials, the transmission lines from Guddu to Quetta were tripped. Also, more than 70 percent of Karachi was in darkness after a sudden power failure struck the country's industrial capital. There were reports of some grid stations in 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.... being affected where three grid stations of NTDC tripped affecting Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... , Multan and Gujranwala.
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All that potential energy...who needs conventional explosives...same reason even small meteors make big holes..wonder if they can fit a guidance avionics package to steer it?
As to the cost...never really about the cost, expensive weaponry is just an excuse used by REMFs to justify not having the cajones to deploy.
Sri Lanka’s new government said on Saturday it is scrapping compulsory military training for school teachers and undergraduates. The three-week army training, mandatory under ousted leader Mahinda Rajapakse’s administration, had resulted in at least three deaths in recent years and was deeply unpopular among student and teacher unions.
The new government that came to power following the January 8 presidential election, won by Maithripala Sirisena, has vowed to reduce the role of the military in Sri Lankan society. Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said the government had “concluded that military training is not necessary for school teachers”.
The government has decided to remove the military ranks given to school principals, the minister told reporters.
Sri Lanka’s security forces wielded huge influence in civil society after they crushed Tamil rebels in May 2009 and declared an end to decades of ethnic conflict that had claimed 100,000 lives between 1972 and 2009. After the war ended, the military was deployed to run even the country’s main performing arts centre, while army officers replaced civil servants at key institutions.
The previous government also used the military in retail trade, including the sale of vegetables and fish and in the operation of hotels, travel companies and even barber saloons.
Former president Rajapakse and his immediate family members, including his retired colonel brother Gotabhaya Rajapakse who was the then defence secretary, face allegations of abuse of power and huge corruption. Gotabhaya Rajapakse has been accused of killing dissidents, including a prominent editor of a publication that was highly critical of the then ruling family.
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For many years I have noted a pronounced pain relieving effect from drinking strong coffee when I've overexerted my muscles or have been suffering from an upper respiratory infection. At least as strong as Tylenol or Aleve for many things. Maybe now the FDA can ban it altogether.
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.
[Washington Post] Zambia's acting chief justice has announced that Edgar Lungu of the Patriotic Front has won the presidential election.
[Pak Daily Times] Pakistain suddenly plunged into darkness late Saturday night following a major power breakdown, as most of the cities including Islamabad, 
