[Al Jazeera] A mass shooting at a video game tournament has led to "multiple fatalities" in the US state of Florida, according to police.
The shooting took place on Sunday at a waterfront dining, entertainment and shopping site in downtown Jacksonville, according to local media. Citing police sources, reports said four people were killed and at least 10 maimed.
"We have deceased victims at the scene. We also have injured people at the hospital. We will release counts later on," said Sheriff Mike Williams at a brief presser, describing the dead suspect as a white male who had yet to be identified.
"We have no outstanding suspects at this time, the scene is secure, and we will follow up in a couple of hours."
The attack took place during the Madden 19 online game tournament at the GLHF Game Bar, according to the venue's website.
The video game tournament was being streamed online from the restaurant. Players can be seen reacting to the gunfire and cries can be heard before the footage cuts off.
"SWAT is doing a methodical search inside... We will get to you. Please don't come running out," the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office earlier said on Twitter.
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Natasha can't do two-dimensional:
"Don't fence me in, dude! Too conventional."
The dumbstruck conformance
That greets her performance,
"Un-painting with doo-doo?" Intentional!
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The police forces in Kabul have jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! a man and confiscated at least four hundred fake National Identity Cards (Tazkiras) which were being smuggled to the capital with the intent to use during the upcoming elections.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a statement the suspect was arrested during a search operation from the vicinity of Pul Charkhi of Kabul.
The statement further added that the suspect was looking to smuggle the fake National Identity Cards from Kapisa to Kabul.
No further details have been given in this regard but the Ministry of Interior added that an investigation is underway from the detained suspect.
This comes as the officials in the Attorney General’s Office had earlier said at least 85 people have been arrested from various parts of the country for forging National Identity Cards.
The officials, political parties, and candidates have also expressed concerns regarding the use of fake National Identity Cards during the upcoming parliamentary and district council elections.
However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... the Independent Election Commission had earlier said that stickers have pasted to the original national identity cards of the voters to prevent fraud during the elections.
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Under apple pie hat or burnoose,
Blank identity cards! His excuse?
In a sibilant hiss
He was heard to insist,
"These is just for my personal use!"
[Infogalactic] The Battle of Ambos Nogales (The Battle of Both Nogales), or as it is known in Mexico La batalla del 27 de agosto (The Battle of 27 August), was an engagement fought on 27 August 1918 between Mexican forces and elements of US Army troops of the 35th Infantry Regiment, who were reinforced by the Buffalo Soldiers of the 10th Cavalry Regiment, and commanded by Lt. Col. Frederick J. Herman. The American soldiers and militia forces were stationed in Nogales, Arizona, and the Mexican soldiers and armed Mexican militia were in Nogales, Sonora.[2] This battle was notable for being a significant confrontation between US and Mexican forces during the Border War which took place in the context of the Mexican Revolution and the First World War.
This occurred after the Zimmermann telegram during World War I, when the international border between the two Nogaleses was a wide-open boulevard named International Street. Imperial German may or may not have been involved, but in any case, border problems with Mexico are nothing new.
[The Hill] President Trump said Monday the U.S. has reached an agreement with Mexico amid contentious talks on revamping the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Trump declared the name "NAFTA" would be scrapped for an updated North American agreement, saying it has "bad connotations."
"It’s a big day for trade. It’s a big day for our country," the president told reporters in the Oval Office, who were summoned to watch Trump speak by phone with outgoing Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
Trump cast doubt on whether Canada would be party to a new trade agreement, saying, "We’ll see if Canada can be part of deal."
He said the two nations would begin talking "relatively soon."
The president said he plans to "terminate" the existing NAFTA agreement and move forward with the new emerging deal with Mexico.
If Canada is excluded, it would mark a major shift in U.S. trade policy, which has been guided by NAFTA for the past quarter century.
Trump would need Congress to approve the break-up of the three-nation agreement, a move that most on Capitol Hill would likely oppose.
A senior White House official said the administration plans to notify lawmakers of the U.S.-Mexico agreement, even if Canada is not yet on board.
"Ideally we'll have the Canadians involved," said the official. "If not, we will notify that we have a bilateral agreement and that Canada is welcome to join. We think that satisfies the requirements of the statute."
Trump said he wants to call the new deal the "United States-Mexico Trade Agreement," saying "I think's it's an elegant name."
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Obama didn't need Congress for his deL with Iran, and they have been at war with us for 40 years. And given the number of Mexican nationals in the US, is this really a foreign treaty?
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[SWI] Retirement provision is the leading concern for young people in Switzerland ahead of issues like foreigners and refugees, according to the 2018 Credit Suisse Youth Barometer.
A total of 53% of Swiss youth surveyed claimed they are worried about their pensions, compared to 41% last year. Immigration, which preoccupied almost half those surveyed last year, only registered as a concern among 29% surveyed this year.
Swiss youngsters are more optimistic when it came to the job market. Only 34% felt that their job would disappear due to the threat posed by digitisation compared to almost three out of four young people in US, Brazil and Singapore. The Swiss youth are also the exception when it comes the kind of jobs they preferred. While information technology is the most popular labour sector by far in other countries (US:75%, Brazil:72%, Singapore 75%) young people in Switzerland would rather work in education (56%), the media (53%), tourism (50%) or administration (47%). Only 43% of Swiss surveyed would choose an IT job.
Swiss youth are also the most prudent in money matters. They constituted the smallest share that felt their financial obligations were a burden and opted for the biggest savings amount.
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The crash of the Turkish lira last week after two years of steady decline spooked global markets ‐ but anyone looking at Istanbul’s skyline would have been far from surprised. Everywhere you look in the city, evidence of a debt-fuelled construction boom abounds: new skyscrapers frame the horizon, huge shopping malls dot the streets and among several megaprojects is a new airport, set to be the world's largest. Turkey is also heavily reliant on imports for construction materials: it is the world's ninth largest importer of steel, paying $8bn in 2016, a figure that rose to $9bn in 2017 as the lira began to fall.
That makes the Turkish economy's dependence on the construction sector for growth particularly dangerous. In the third quarter of 2017, construction made up 18.7% of the economy. This over-reliance on an industry that is so sensitive to global downturns has long been criticized by Turkish economists. I personally had, in 2009, expected the Turkish economy to crash by 2014 but I didn't have the insight that Turkey's businesses could fool so many western banks into lending them money.
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Spot on, Lord Garth - borrow shitloads of $ to build skyscrapers and malls - brilliant!
[DAWN] After failing to get any result during the previous government, tobacco control advocates are hopeful that the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan will not only take steps to increase revenue collection from the tobacco industry but will also protect the citizens against hazards of smoking.
At present, the country is facing an annual loss of around Rs30 billion due to low taxes on the tobacco industry while health of the youth is at a stake.
“Imran Khan and Finance Minister Asad Umar had on a number of occasions assured us that they would support our efforts to save the health of the youth because Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) speaks more about the youth. The previous government announced to enhance the size of the pictorial health warning from 40pc to 85pc of the cigarette packet in 2014 but the promise was never fulfilled.
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[DAWN] Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani on Saturday appointed PML-N's Raja Zafarul Haq leader of the opposition in the Upper House, according to a notification issued by the Senate Secretariat.
Haq replaced PPP Senator Sherry Rehman with effect from Aug 24, according to the notification. Haq, who previously served as leader of the house, was replaced by Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... Senator Shibli Faraz on Aug 24.
Haq had been a contender for the election of Senate chairman against Sadiq Sanjrani earlier this year but lost by 11 votes. Old Raja's come a long way from his days doing porno on eight millimeter wearing nothing but a mask and garters on his socks.
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[Al Jazeera] A senior Vatican official called on Pope Francis to resign, accusing the pontiff of failing to act sooner on sexual abuse allegations against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
In an 11-page statement, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano said sanctions imposed on McCarrick by Pope Benedict XVI over sexual misconduct were lifted under Francis, despite reports about his "gravely immoral behaviour with seminarians and priests".
Vigano said he informed Francis in person in 2013 of the sanctions and how McCarrick, ex-archbishop of Washington, DC, "corrupted generations of seminarians and priests".
Pope Francis "continued to cover" for McCarrick despite the sanctions and even made him "his trusted counsellor", Vigano alleged.
"In this extremely dramatic moment for the universal church, he must acknowledge his mistakes and, in keeping with the proclaimed principle of zero tolerance, Pope Francis must be the first to set a good example for cardinals and bishops who covered up McCarrick's abuses and resign along with all of them," he said.
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Good idea.
At least I get a new Pope out of it, preferably a no leftist.
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Similar appearance to Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook. With all the silly con valley talk about what AI is going to do to improve the world why can't it detect creeps like this jacked into the net day and night?
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The Jacksonville shooter rants against Trump on reddit. He won $400,000 the prior year playing Madden football at other venues. This shooter has proven to be the perfect Democrat in the Hillary sense as he is a mean sore loser. Many victims said he was trying to shoot the game playing thumbs off of players before killing them.
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$400k, didn't realize how lucrative the gaming business had become.
Know a person who gave up video games, especially the shooters, and will log onto one of the gaming sites and just watch the pros play. Also, video game hockey was on TV post-Stanley cup games. So there is the advertising and endorsement money out there too.
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.
[DAWN] After failing to get any result during the previous government, tobacco control advocates are hopeful that the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan will not only take steps to increase revenue collection from the tobacco industry but will also protect the citizens against hazards of smoking.
[DAWN] Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani on Saturday appointed PML-N's Raja Zafarul Haq leader of the opposition in the Upper House, according to a notification issued by the Senate Secretariat.
[Al Jazeera] A senior Vatican official called on Pope Francis to resign, accusing the pontiff of failing to act sooner on sexual abuse allegations against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
