Here comes the screams for gun control -- AK-47 seems to have been in presence
PITTSBURGH -- A man opened fire on officers during a domestic disturbance call Saturday morning, killing three of them, a police official said. Friends said he feared the Obama administration was poised to ban guns.
Three officers were killed, said a police official at the scene who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. Police spokeswoman Diane Richard would only say that at least five officers were wounded, but wouldn't give any other details.
The man who fired at the officers was arrested after a several-hour standoff. One witness reported hearing hundreds of shots.
The shootings occurred just two weeks after four police officers March 21 in Oakland, Calif., in the deadliest day for U.S. law enforcement since Sept. 11, 2001.
Police did not immediately release the gunman's identity, but his friends at the scene described him as a young man who thought the Obama administration would ban guns.
One friend, Edward Perkovic, said the gunman feared "the Obama gun ban that's on the way" and "didn't like our rights being infringed upon." Another longtime friend, Aaron Vire, said he feared that President Obama was going to take away his rights, though he said he "wasn't violently against Obama."
Perkovic, a 22-year-old who said he was the gunman's best friend, said he got a call at work from him in which he said, "Eddie, I am going to die today. ... Tell your family I love them and I love you."
Perkovic said: "I heard gunshots and he hung up. ... He sounded like he was in pain, like he got shot."
Vire, 23, said the gunman once had an Internet talk show but that it wasn't successful. Vire said his friend had an AK-47 rifle and several powerful handguns, including a .357 Magnum.
The officers were called to the home in the Stanton Heights neighborhood at about 7 a.m., Richard said.
Tom Moffitt, 51, a city firefighter who lives two blocks away, said he heard about the shooting on his scanner and came to the scene, where he heard "hundreds, just hundreds of shots. And not just once -- several times."
Rob Gift, 45, who lives a block away, said he heard rapid gunfire as he was letting his dog out. He said the neighborhood of well-kept single-family houses and manicured lawns is home to many police officers, firefighters, paramedics and other city workers. "It's just a very quiet neighborhood," Gift said.
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guy was a loser: Friends described a Richard Poplawski far different from the 22-year-old man accused of gunning down three police officers today -- a partier sometimes, a guy in search of an understanding of politics, even a walking comedian.
He was also convinced that the government wanted to take away his guns and his freedom.
"I've known this kid my entire life and he was a good kid. He never had bad intentions. He never spoke about harming anybody," said Edward Perkovic, a lifelong friend who had known Mr. Poplawski since the two paired up at a daycare.
Mr. Poplawski attended Immaculate Conception elementary school and moved on to North Catholic High School. A spokesman for the high school today said that he was expelled, but declined to state a reason.
Mr. Perkovic said his friend stopped attending classes so he could take get his general equivalency diploma then join the Marine Corps.
Records indicate that Mr. Poplawski was dishonorably discharged from the corps during basic training. Friends said he wanted out so he could rejoin his girlfriend.
apparently the PD had had several calls to the residence as well...expect the MSM to focus on somebody's assertion that he was worried about Obama's gungrabbing, though. Perhaps he also fed guns to the Messican Cartels?
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. court on Friday blocked the deportation of accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk, two days before he was to have been sent to Germany to face charges in the deaths of 29,000 Jews.
"It appears there will be no deportation Sunday. The immigration judge granted our motion for stay of deportation," John Demjanjuk Jr. said in an e-mail.
The order from Wayne Iskra, an immigration judge in Arlington, Virginia, said the stay would remain in effect until the question of whether his case should be reopened is decided.
Which will drag this out another year or two.
Lawyers for the 89-year-old retired automobile industry worker, who lives near Cleveland, had asked for an emergency stay, saying Demjanjuk's health was so poor he could not make the trip. They said he had spinal problems, kidney failure, anemia, was very weak and needed help to stand up or move about.
He can be executed in the sitting position. Or prone ...
The Ukraine native has denied any role in the Holocaust. He said he was drafted into the Russian army in 1941, became a German prisoner of war a year later and served at German prison camps until 1944.
He was sentenced to death in Israel in 1988 for being a sadistic guard "Ivan the Terrible" at Treblinka where 870,000 died. That country's highest court later ruled he was not "Ivan" and he returned to the United States. But U.S. officials in 2002 stripped him of his citizenship, saying that he had worked at three other camps and hid that information at his U.S. entry in 1951.
Which is enough for deportation, or at least should be.
He was ordered deported in December 2006, but remained in the country through legal challenges and because there were no demands from other countries that he be sent to them.
Last year, Germany's chief Nazi war crimes investigator, Kurt Schrimm, asked prosecutors in Munich, where Demjanjuk lived before he emigrated to the United States, to charge him with involvement in the murder of 29,000 Jews. Schrimm said his office had evidence Demjanjuk had been a guard at Sobibor and personally led Jews to the gas chambers.
Last month, Munich prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for Demjanjuk and asked the United States to deport him so he could stand trial.
His son said earlier this week: "Given the amount of suffering and death that was meted out by Nazi Germany, it seems inconceivable that the Germans, who nearly killed my father in combat and again later in POW camps, now want to take him - so elderly and weak he is unable to care for himself."
Your dad was a murderer, son, you'd better get used to the idea.
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Don't worry. The Germans wouldn't execute Hitler if he were alive today. Or Stalin for that matter.
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Life sentence, death sentence. pshaw. His soul has an eternal sentence. That's a long time.
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...I lived in Cleveland while this was going on the first time and there was an interesting point that I've not seen mentioned this go-round: the possibility that this guy isn't Ivan the Terrible. He was almost certainly a KZ guard or a Kapo, but the evidence that he was Ivan was sketchy and there is a possibility that the Russians may have cooked the evidence they supplied.
Don't misunderstand me - this guy contributed to the Holocaust and as such has a very special seat waiting for him in the lowest circle of Hell. But he may not be Ivan...
Mike
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I've read that too, Mike, so I won't shoot him for being Ivan. I'll shoot him for being a kapo ...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer has won the 11th annual Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Journalism.
Krauthammer -- a regular panelist on FOX News' "Special Report" whose weekly column in The Washington Post is syndicated in more than 200 newspapers worldwide -- won the $20,000 award for depicting "love of country and its democratic institutions," the Eric Breindel Foundation announced Thursday.
"I was surprised and extremely gratified," Krauthammer told FOXNews.com. "I was very happy when I got the call. It means a lot because I knew Eric, he was a friend of mine and he was a courageous journalist. To win an award in honor of him is extremely gratifying."
Krauthammer, 59, is also a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and The New Republic.
Perhaps best-known for coining and developing "The Reagan Doctrine" in 1985, Krauthammer won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for commentary. The Financial Times named him America's most influential commentator in 2006. He also coined BDS "Bush Derangement Syndrome."
"So many awards in journalism and other fields are so heavily dominated by what is politically correct," Krauthammer said. "That's why it's particularly important that there be awards like the Breindel Award, which defends American values unashamedly."
Krauthammer began his journalism career in 1978 when he began contributing articles to The New Republic. He later served as a speechwriter for Vice President Walter Mondale during the 1980 presidential campaign.
Born in New York, Krauthammer was raised in Montreal, where he attended McGill University and majored in political science and economics. He later attended Oxford University and Harvard Medical School, and worked as a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1975 to 1978.
Krauthammer, who lives in suburban Maryland with his wife Robyn, said the award comes with a "twinge of sadness," because of Breindel's absence.
"Eric died tragically young," Krauthammer said. "And when you get the Breindel Award, you carry on the work of someone who you're reminded should've been here."
Breindel, a former editorial page editor of the New York Post and senior vice president of the News Corporation, died of liver complications in 1998. Past winners of the award created in his honor include Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal and Max Boot, now a senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations.
"If we look at the past winners, it's for years now honored people who are swimming upstream rather than taking the easy way down, politically and ideologically speaking," Krauthammer said. "It's a special award."
[Al Arabiya Latest] American pop star Madonna will not be allowed adopt a second child in Malawi, the southern African countryŽs High Court ruled on Friday. Rights groups have accused Malawian authorities of giving her special treatment.
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Not that there are plenty of other available candidates around the world, let alone her home of residence. If it's all about appearance darling, you clearly show privileged whites buying Africans again. Betcha she didn't vote for Bush [implying that those who spent their time and energy denouncing the man are primarily people who practice - one set of rules for me and another set of rules for thee.]
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Besoeker,
do you like actual candy or her 2007 album hard candy? i think the lyrics go something like come on in to my shop, ive got suckers and so much more!! eeewW!
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She should just fund an orphanage and be done with it but THAT'S NOT HER GODDAMN FUCKING INTENTION TO ACTUALY HELP AFRICAN CHILDRENso yes Procopius2k got it spot on
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or it could be presumed she she's little David like a pet animal, get another of the same to keep it company and happy - fuck I hate this bitch
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Why don't you tell us how you really feel, Boss?
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Mind the blood pressure Boss old boy. You'd hardly be the first fellow to keel over at the keyboard.
[Al Arabiya Latest] In the latest outburst of religious tensions in Egypt, dozens of villagers set fire to Bahai homes after hearing on television that the village was "full of Bahais," reports said Thursday.
Angry villagers rampaged through Sharoniyah, in southern Egypt, on Monday and Tuesday, setting fire to and damaging four Bahai homes, a security official told AFP, asking not to be named.
The fires spread to two Muslim homes which were also damaged, the official said. The villagers also threatened the village's roughly 30 Bahais with death, the official said, after which all of them fled.
Police have detained six people in relation to the attacks and are questioning them as additional police were deployed in the area.
Earlier this month Egypt's ruling party agreed to allow Bahais to refrain from filling in the religion section on their identity cards and the government announced it was mulling the possibility of removing the religion section for all Egyptians.
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Because they heard the Persian's story about an agent of the TSAR convincing a low IQ mullah student of a new truth that when the guy was killed over it the agent of the Tsar became his chief believer and teacher to better destabilize Persia and Iran in the Great Game?
Or was it some Jewish variant?
Its always some conspiracy in that part of the world.. Never cause and effect.
[Maghrebia] At least seven people, including National Assembly speaker Messoud Ould Boulkheir and other deputies and union leaders, were injured on Thursday (April 2nd) when anti-riot police in Nouakchott dispersed an unauthorised opposition demonstration against the presidential bid of junta leader General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, local and international press reported. The protest was organised by the National Front for the Defence of Democracy (FNDD).
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[Al Arabiya Latest] An official decree by Saudi Arabia has banned all forms of entertainment at women's charity events, according to press reports Thursday.
The Ministry of Social Affairs issued an urgent decree banning music, dancing, singing, and fashion shows at events held by women's charitable organizations, which make up 16 percent of the kingdom's 500 organizations, the London-based Asharq al-Awsat reported.
The decree came on the heels of the first fashion show, part of a designer contest for women, held in the kingdom last week.
Besides entertainment, the decree stipulates that all activities that contradict customs and traditions are banned. Fashion shows are only allowed if the clothes are displayed on mannequins, but no human models.
The ministry assigned its officials in each of the kingdom's 13 provinces the task of reviewing and authorizing all events organized by charitable associations and making sure the program does not include any banned activities.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League have received a few crore taka brokering illegal admission of freshmen to government colleges in the capital. They obtained the money mainly from students on the waiting lists and the ones who failed to qualify in the freshmen admission tests.
The admission tests for the first-year honours programmes of colleges started early last month and will end within a few days.
According to Chhatra League leaders directly involved in this, known as "political admission", at different government colleges, they are taking Tk 20,000 to Tk 1 lakh for each admission as carrots depending on the faculty and the college's reputation. Dhaka College and Eden College top the list of institutions where political admissions are going on.
Chhatra League leaders carry out such illegal admission business with the connivance of a section of teachers, officials and employees of the colleges, sources in the institutions say. If any college official refuses to comply with Chhatra League leaders' instructions, they are threatened with transfers, according to college sources.
They said Chhatra League leaders, student wing of the ruling Awami League (AL), of Dhaka College unit persuaded the college authorities to take at least 400 "poorly qualified" freshmen in. The same thing is going on in many government colleges in the capital as well as in different districts of the country.
Eden College, Govt Kabi Nazrul College, Govt Bangla College in Mirpur, Govt Titumir College, Badrunnesa College, Teachers' Training College and Govt Shaheed Suhrawardy College are all in the grip of Chhatra League leaders, sources said.
During the last BNP-Jamaat alliance rule, leaders of their student wing--Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal and Islami Chhatra Shibir--were also involved in similar practices.
In Dhaka College, Chhatra League leaders halted the admission process a few weeks ago as the college authorities started admission independent of the Chhatra League leaders' so-called business. The college authorities had to negotiate with the student leaders and reach a consensus to restart admission process, sources said.
A couple of weeks ago, Eden College unit Chhatra League leaders had kept their principal confined to the college office for about three hours to force the authorities take in 50 students on the waiting list under "political admission".
Sources said students who failed to qualify in the freshmen admission test or are way down the waiting list can easily get enrolled in colleges paying the Chhatra League leaders. Moreover, students who qualified for a department but want to move to a better one can also pay the leaders and move up the list.
Talking to The Daily Star a number of Chhatra League leaders said they are engaged in this to oblige senior leaders and influential persons, including members of parliament, with their requests. "We are political workers and we have to carry out their requests," said a Dhaka College unit Chhatra League leader preferring not to be named. He, however, did not answer when asked if the senior leaders asked them to take money from the admission seekers.
In Dhaka, Kabi Nazrul and Eden colleges, the top two Chhatra League posts holders are doing this "business of political admission" while a general secretary and a president of Chhatra League units of Shaheed Suhrawardi College and Badrunnesa College are also doing.
Lawmaker Fazle Noor Tapash told The Daily Star, "I'll take stern actions against them [Chhatra League leaders] if proof is found of their involvement in such practices."
Chhatra League General Secretary Mahfuzul Haider Chowdhury Roton told The Daily Star that they have not received any allegation from any quarters regarding this. "If we receive such information, we will launch an investigation and take action accordingly," he added.
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[Bangla Daily Star] At least 15 activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) were injured in a violent intra-party clash over establishing supremacy at a dormitory at Jahangirnagar University (JU) early Friday.
Witnesses said the clash erupted as a faction of BCL led by Jihan-Palash entered the Meer Mosharraf Hossain (MMH) Hall along with 40 to 50 outsiders at 4:00 am and vandalised at least 25 rooms of the dorm. Masked and equipped with sharp weapons and firearms, the attackers made their entry through the dining room and swooped on sleeping students, said sources.
Earlier another faction led by Pritam-Sabbir drove loyalists of Jihan-Polash out of the dorm on March 10 when a bloody clash halted all academic activities on the campus for several days. The dormitory, since then, had been under the control of Pritom- Sabbir faction.
The Jihan-Palash group looted at least 70 to 80 cell phones, 2 LCD monitors and cash from the hall during the rampage. The attackers, however, fled after being chased by their rival faction. Police picked up five BCL men after the clash.
During the clash, Belal, a fourth year student of anthropology department, was stabbed. The other injured students include Tanmoy, a 3rd year student of Bangla, Roni, a 2nd year student of economics, Shubroto, a 3rd year student of economics, Joy, a post-graduate student of economics, Liton, a 2nd year student of economics, Mamun, a post-graduate student of economics, and his guest Sayem.
Belal was referred to the Central Hospital after his condition worsened while others were referred to the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital and Enam Medical College and Hospital.
General secretary of recently dissolved BCL JU unit Mahmud Naser Joni said the attackers were not BCL men.
Police raided Meer Mosharraf Hossain Hall at 6:45am and arrested Sajib, Tofa, Saer, Shawan and one unidentified person. The law enforcers also recovered three sharp weapons from the dormitory. Additional police forces have been deployed on the campus to avert further trouble.
Proctor of JU Arju Miah told the Daily Star they would form a committee to look into the matter and gave assurance that authorities would take stern actions against those responsible for the attack and looting.
No case had been filed till filing of the report at 5:00 pm yesterday, Officer-in-charge of Savar Police Station Shafiqul Islam said.
The BCL university committee was dissolved on February 17 following a series of clashes over establishing supremacy at residential halls.
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The Frunze Higher Naval College in St. Petersburg, one of Russia's top military academies, is on fire, a regional emergencies ministry official said on Saturday.
"Preliminary reports say the roof of the building is on fire, with heavy smoke observed," the official said, adding that the alarm was sounded at around 10:20 a.m. Moscow time.
The college was founded by Peter the Great in 1701 and is one of the oldest naval officer schools in the world. It is still centered in the original building.
The New York Times Co. has threatened to shut the Boston Globe unless the newspaper's unions swiftly agree to $20 million in concessions, union leaders said.
I thought progressives liked unions ...
Executives from the Times Co. and Globe made the demands Thursday morning in an approximately 90-minute meeting with leaders of the newspaper's 13 unions, union officials said. The possible concessions include pay cuts, the end of pension contributions by the company and the elimination of lifetime job guarantees now enjoyed by some veteran employees, said Daniel Totten, president of the Boston Newspaper Guild, the Globe's biggest union, which represents more than 700 editorial, advertising and business office employees.
The concessions will be negotiated individually with each of the unions, said Totten and Ralph Giallanella, secretary-treasurer of the Teamsters Local 259, which represents about 200 drivers who deliver the newspaper.
Pinchy is threatening the Teamsters? That isn't going to end well.
"We all know the newspaper industry is going through great transition and loss," said Giallanella. "The ad revenues have fallen off the cliff. Just based on everything that's going on around the country, they're serious."
Catherine Mathis, a Times Co. spokeswoman, declined to comment. Globe publisher P. Steven Ainsley also declined to comment.
The newspaper industry, which had already been struggling as readers and advertisers moved to the Internet, has been hard hit by the recession, and the Globe is no exception. The newspaper's advertising revenues have declined sharply in recent years; once robustly profitable, it is now losing money.
Earlier this week, the Globe newsroom completed cutting the equivalent of 50 full-time jobs. But the deteoriating economy has made the paper's financial outlook much worse. Management told union leaders Thursday that the Globe will lose $85 million in 2009, unless serious cutbacks are made, according to a Globe employee briefed on the discussions. Last year the paper lost an estimated $50 million, the employee said.
The Times Co. is seeking concessions from the union because the New York company, which is also suffering from the recession, can no longer subsidize the Globe's losses, said the Globe employee who requested anonymity because the person is not authorized to speak publicly. The Times Co. posted a net loss of $57.8 million in 2008.
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I love the way newspapers refuse to comment on their own issues. What about the people's right to know?
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There is no right to know anything more than they want you to know - its about power. That's why in the end, this media will continue to kill them with each new generation accessing it.
[Al Arabiya Latest] World leaders were set to impose new financial rules on Thursday to jumpstart the sputtering global economy and triple the war chest of the International Monetary Fund to fight the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, sources at the G20 summit said, as tens of thousands of protesters from around the world gathered to demonstrate for economic justice and environmental accountability.
After sharp differences over how to restore confidence, representatives of U.S. President Barack Obama and other Group of 20 leaders agreed to submit large hedge funds to supervision for the first time and enhance regulation through a new agency and a beefed-up IMF.
Monetary and developing country sources said the latest draft summit communiqué provided for a $500 billion boost to the IMF's resources, raising to $750 billion the funds it can make available to countries worst hit by the global crisis.
"There's a lot of progress today on making sure the international institutions we have, like the IMF, have got the money they need...to be able to intervene more decisively and more urgently than in the past," British Finance Minister Alistair Darling told Sky TV.
The G20 were also close to agreeing a trade finance package worth $250 billion to support trade flows, a source at the summit in London told Reuters. Brown had been targeting at least $100 billion to help reverse the decline in trade following the credit crunch.
"This is a positive step to jump-start global trade flows. It is a significant contribution towards solving the problem," said Eoin O'Malley, senior adviser on international trade at BusinessEurope, Europe's top business group.
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[Mail and Globe] Chairman Philip Hampton warned on Friday as he called for an end to "public flogging" of the state-rescued bank over its past mistakes.
Hampton rounded on the legacy of former chief executive Fred Goodwin, saying in a speech due to be delivered to shareholder meetings later on Friday that his takeover of Dutch rival ABN Amro had been the wrong deal at the wrong price.
Addressing widespread public anger over the pension of £703 000 pounds a year awarded to Goodwin, Hampton also said the bank was taking legal advice over the payout and that the contract of the new chief executive, Stephen Hester, ensured no more rewards for failure.
"Some of the practices that were accepted at the height of a boom when the bank was recording £10-billion profits, cannot be acceptable now if indeed they ever really were," Hampton said, pointing to sponsorship of Formula 1 motor racing and an order for a corporate jet that has now been cancelled.
Small shareholders in RBS will later on Friday get an opportunity to publicly vent anger over the lender's near collapse last year and are expected to make the largely symbolic gesture of rejecting the bank's report on 2008 executive pay.
The British government, which became majority shareholder in RBS last October after resuscitating the bank with a £20-billion injection of taxpayer's money, has already said it will vote against RBS's 2008 remuneration report.
"I do understand that many shareholders will wish to vote against or abstain on the advisory vote on the Remuneration Report to register their strong disapproval of the pension arrangements of our former chief executive," Hampton said.
Goodwin and RBS have been at the centre of public anger over the near collapse of Britain's banking system and protesters targeted one of the bank's branches during the meeting of G20 heads of government in London this week.
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The death of the eurozone has been grossly exaggerated despite growing strains in the bond markets, where governments plan to raise the trillions needed to pay for their economic recovery plans, a top EU official insisted on Monday.
The spread between interest rates on debt issued by high-deficit eurozone countries compared to low-risk German government bonds widened last week to the highest levels since the eurozone was formed in 1999.
The eurozone's detractors have long argued that the bloc would not be able to hold together if the divergence between the interest euro governments pay on their debt grows too large.
EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Joaquin Almunia on Monday insisted that the move in the markets was not an ominous sign that the shared-currency bloc would break apart.
"I am not worried at all by those who have announced for 10 years in a row that the euro area will split. Honestly, I don't think that this is a real hypothesis," he told reporters in Brussels.
"It is normal that the market assess the risks. So the existence of a spread in euro area government bonds is logical because not all members of the euro area have the same fiscal position over the medium- to long-term," he said.
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I can't understand why the rank and file citizens put up with that. Why aren't the citizens hitting these idiots over the head with bats when they come to destroy their property? Is the insurance payoff THAT good that they don't care?
An otherwise boring sports story, one of those internet flash in the pan things. Newspaper copies & pastes from a blogger and has a national hit story. Blogger complains and gets this response: [my bold]
Dave,
We had a copy of the email from another parent, but apparently copied the version from your site without credit. That was a mistake and we apologize for that. We should have used our own copy. If it's any consolation, this kind of thing happens to us often. We don't like it, which is another reason we should have been more careful.
AP picked up the story from us, which is we you're seeing the credit on other sites. The LA Times and other sites credited the Herald. So, according to the editor himself, the practice is widespread. Wonderful. And these are the newspapers that everyone is supposed to band together and support during our hour of need?
CHENNAI: A special team of the Crime Branch CID police late on Friday night arrested S. Naganna (75), the doctor who allegedly castrated a minor boy from Tamil Nadu at Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh last year.
The surgeon performed the operation in his hospital at the behest of some transgenders, who had abducted the boy from Kovalam in Kancheepuram district in July 2006. He was produced in a city court and remanded to judicial custody.
According to Superintendent of Police (CBCID) S. Mallikha, the doctor confessed to having performed many sex change operations in recent years. Dr. Naganna used to perform at least two such surgeries every year and charge about Rs.5,000 as fee for each operation. In this case, he castrated a minor without the consent of family members. He is a gold medallist from the Kurnool Medical College and Hospital, she told The Hindu on Saturday.
Besides criminal conspiracy, the doctor has also been booked under Section 326 (Voluntarily causing grievous hurt) of the IPC.
He is a postgraduate in surgery and worked as a Surgical Specialist at Kurnool General Hospital, said Ms. Mallikha.
Deputy Inspector General of Police (CBCID) S.N. Seshasai said the boy, who escaped from a flesh trade centre in Pune and reached home a couple of weeks ago, was referred to a hospital for a series of medical examinations.
It is more than a year since his private parts were forcibly removed. Preliminary tests have shown that he is suffering from some urinary complications.
A police team is in Pune to arrest other accused, mostly transgenders. We are trying to check if there are more victims in vulnerable areas. Of the 500 plus transgenders in a red light area on the outskirts of Pune, 40 belong to Tamil Nadu.
Some have migrated to other areas. Efforts are on to locate victims like this boy and rescue them, Mr. Seshasai said.
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At least 62 people suffocated to death in the back of a truck packed with illegal migrants, and dozens were rescued unconscious after Pakistani police acting on a tip opened the vehicle Saturday near the Afghan border.
Rasool Bakhsh, a senior police official in the city of Quetta, said the shipping container the truck was carrying entered Pakistan from Afghanistan and was headed for Iran. He said most of the victims were Afghans.
More than 100 people were packed inside the 40-foot-long (12-meter-long) metal container, Bakhsh said. He said survivors were rushed to the hospital, many of them unconscious. Khalid Masood, another senior officer, said a total of 62 were pronounced dead.
Television footage shot shortly after the white container was opened showed dozens of bodies, many of them stripped to the waist, lined up on the road next to the truck.
The stench from the container suggested some might have been dead for days, Bakhsh said. Officials said they were holding the truck's driver as part of their investigation.
Southwestern Pakistan lies on a well-trodden route for traffickers smuggling young men from poverty-afflicted countries including Afghanistan and Pakistan hoping to find work and prosperity in Europe and elsewhere.
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Dostum making a delivery?
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Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Sayed Zahid Hussain on Friday took suo motu notice of an incident in which a man chopped off the nose of his former wife for contracting second marriage. The CJ initiated proceedings on a report forwarded to him by LHC Registrar Syed Nasir Ali Shah. The CJ sought a comprehensive report by April 10 about what action had been taken against the accused and what treatment was being given to the victim. The action had been taken on a news report, appearing in a section of the press, that one Muhammad Hussain of Pakpattan chopped off the nose of his former wife Fatima. The woman claimed Hussain was an old man and was forcing her to live a sinful life. She got divorce through a family court and tied the knot with Hussain's relative, Mustafa. She said that Hussain entered her house accompanied by armed men and chopped off her nose. She claimed the police refused to take action against the accused and did not register the first information report. The registrar wrote that the incident was outrageous and created sensation and insecurity in the minds of the general public.
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WASHINGTON - US Congress supporters of Myanmars democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi pleaded Friday to keep sanctions on the military regime as a key senator said efforts to isolate the junta had failed. President Barack Obamas administration is reviewing strategy on Myanmar, also known as Burma, whose ruling junta has crushed dissent and kept Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest for 19 years.
In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, 17 members of Congress said they were greatly concerned by indications that the United States was considering lifting sanctions on Myanmar. The lawmakers, led by longtime Aung San Suu Kyi champion Joseph Crowley, said that Myanmars leader Than Shwe had shown no desire to engage with the worlds only detained Nobel laureate. Than Shwes regime continues to perpetuate crimes against humanity and war crimes so severe that Burma has been called Southeast Asias Darfur, they wrote.
C'mon guys, we're already sucking up to dictators and thugs all over the world. What's one more bunch?
They noted that Congress approved a law last year subjecting the Myanmar junta to sanctions until it releases all political prisoners and starts dialogue on bringing in democracy. We urge you to join us in standing firmly alongside Aung San Suu Kyi and Burmas democracy movement, they said.
But Jim Webb, who heads the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on Asia, said the United States needed a more constructive policy on Myanmar.
Jim Webb, as you'll see, is a 'realist' ...
Certainly the way that we approach it now I dont believe has had the results that people want it to have, Webb, a member of Obamas Democratic Party, told a luncheon at the Council on Foreign Relations. What I think we should be doing in Burma is trying to open up diplomatic avenues where you can have confidence builders... and through that process work toward some way where you can remove sanctions, he said.
So, standing on our moral principles hasn't worked, so let's suck up to the thugs instead in the name of 'progress' ...
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[Bangla Daily Star] Najib Razak was sworn in as MalaysiaŽs prime minister yesterday, assuming charge of reuniting a fractured ruling party and shoring up an economy in crisis.
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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
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[Al Arabiya Latest] American pop star Madonna will not be allowed adopt a second child in Malawi, the southern African countryŽs High Court ruled on Friday. Rights groups have accused Malawian authorities of giving her special treatment.
[Al Arabiya Latest] In the latest outburst of religious tensions in Egypt, dozens of villagers set fire to Bahai homes after hearing on television that the village was "full of Bahais," reports said Thursday. 
[Al Arabiya Latest] An official decree by Saudi Arabia has banned all forms of entertainment at women's charity events, according to press reports Thursday.
[Bangla Daily Star] At least 15 activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) were injured in a violent intra-party clash over establishing supremacy at a dormitory at Jahangirnagar University (JU) early Friday.
[Al Arabiya Latest] World leaders were set to impose new financial rules on Thursday to jumpstart the sputtering global economy and triple the war chest of the International Monetary Fund to fight the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, sources at the G20 summit said, as tens of thousands of protesters from around the world gathered to demonstrate for economic justice and environmental accountability.
[Mail and Globe] Chairman Philip Hampton warned on Friday as he called for an end to "public flogging" of the state-rescued bank over its past mistakes. 
WASHINGTON - US Congress supporters of Myanmars democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi pleaded Friday to keep sanctions on the military regime as a key senator said efforts to isolate the junta had failed. President Barack Obamas administration is reviewing strategy on Myanmar, also known as Burma, whose ruling junta has crushed dissent and kept Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest for 19 years.
