[New Jersey Watchdog] A state police bodyguard to Chris Christie is facing criminal charges in Pennsylvania despite his attempt to use his ties with the New Jersey governor to avoid arrest. Yea, he's not from around here. He came in munching on a calzone, and look at that bulge in his coat. Better call Bill asap.
Trooper William A. Carvounis, 35, is accused of stealing $267 in gun supplies and other goods from a Cabelas store near Hamburg, Pa. His arraignment is scheduled for Feb. 10 in Berks County Court of Common Pleas. Officer who has free, legal access to ammo and supplies, steals Chinese made gun supplies.... strange, very strange.
Carvounis said he was on the governors security detail, Tilden Township Police Chief William J. McEllroy told New Jersey Watchdog. He said he makes $140,000 a year, and hes afraid of losing his job. Legitimate concern I'd say.
The trooper pleaded with local police and the retailer to drop the matter out of professional courtesy and tried to use his connection to Christie as leverage, sources added. Hey gumshoe, do you know who I work for ?
We dont give preferential treatment when someone breaks the law, McEllroy said. Hat tip to Chief McEllory.
[An Nahar] All that remains of Bor, a small market town that has changed hands four times in the latest South Sudan conflict, is an overwhelming smell of putrefying bodies and scattered trash that successive waves of looters ignored.
Warped sheets of rusting corrugated iron roofing, apparently the remains of market stalls, lie in tangled heaps.
Scattered across the street are the objects the looters did not want -- ragged bits of clothing, cardboard boxes, single plastic slippers.
The ruins of the town, in which hundreds of non-combatants were killed, in some cases shot in the back as they fled, are eerily silent.
"My son was killed when the enemies came attacking people. My brother ran with his family and my son was also trying to run but as he was running to hide he was shot in the back," recounted Majuer Garang, a tall, stoic man, under a tree on the outskirts of Bor where the dead remain where they fell, on narrow paths, or curled up under beds in their homes.
Towards the town center a barefoot woman scurries across the main street, a table on her head.
Residents have started trickling slowly back into town for a few hours just to see if they can salvage any belongings the looters left behind.
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Bodies Litter Looted South Sudan Town
This is what happens when there are no laws against littering. That's why we don't have this problem here.
That and the fact we don't routinely massacre our neighbors. Even if they did vote for Obama.
[Dhaka Tribune] The Rajshahi University authority yesterday at an emergency meeting decided to close the university sine die from today and asked its students to vacate the dormitories by 8am.
The decision came after at least 100 students were maimed in yesterday's clash between students, police and activists of Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ...
Of the injured, around 20 were bullet- and rubber bullet-hit.
The bullet-hit injured are Parag, Rabiul, Mousum, Ashiq, Abdur Rashid, Abdul Latif, Saju (marketing department third year), Ashiqur Rahman, (statistics second year), Zahir Raihan, (management second year), Sohel Rana (MBA), Abu Sufian, Rubel, Parvez, (mass communication MSS final year), Anwar (Botany third year), Touhid (political science third year), Ragib (mass communication second year), Nazrul (applied chemistry first year), Hamidul, Rana and Rakhi.
They were all admitted to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.
The Chhatra League activists opened fire on the agitating students while police tear shells and rubber bullets.
Moreover, at least 10 journalists, including our RU correspondent, were maimed when the newsmen were trying to cover the incident.
The incident took place around 12 noon while the agitating students were holding a sit-in in front of the university's administrative building.
From the early morning, the students marched on the campus from different halls and private messes and took position in front of all academic buildings, padlocking their gates to observe strike enforced for the third consecutive day.
Later, over 5,000 students joined the sit-in in front of the university's administrative building at 11am.
Around 12noon, Chhatra League activists drew a procession led by its RU unit President Mizanur Rahman Rana and General Secretary Touhid-al-Hossain Tuhin.
The party activists allegedly entered the students' demonstration and launched an attack on them.
During the attack, BCL activists allegedly fired bullet at random at the students. Police also started firing rubber bullets and tear shells to disperse the agitating students.
After dispersion, the general students took position at different points on the campus and kept chanting slogans.
The Chhatra League activists later chased after the students while allegedly opening fire at them at the same time to oust them from the campus.
Around 2pm, a large number of agitating students assembled in front of the university's central library.
The protesters declared that they would continue movement till their three-point demand were met.
They also added two more demand that includes exemplary punishment to the BCL attackers and bearing of all medical expenses of the injured by the university authorities.
The general students had been continuing their movement from January 16 this year under the banner of "Teachers-Students against increased fees and evening courses" to push for their three-point demand.
The three were withdrawal of the recently taken decision to introduce evening master's courses under the Social Science Faculty, putting a stop to the ongoing evening master's courses at the BBA and Law Faculty and decrease in the recently hiked fees.
The RU students also abstained from joining classes and examinations from Thursday. Asked about the police role, the deputy commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (East) said the lawmen fired rubber bullets and tear shells as the students went on the rampage.
Proctor Tarikul Hasan told the newsmen that the situation was under control.
Chhatra League President Mizanur Rahman Rana gave the version that they went into action as the students were trying to make the situation of the university unstable.
A five-member probe team has been formed to investigate the yesterday's incident on the campus.
Prof Khalequzzaman of Zoology Department heads the investigation team.
RU Vice-Chancellor Prof Mizanuddin on Saturday at a press briefing postponed the decision to hike fees following a continuous strike and demonstration by the students on the campus while two others demand of the students were yet to be settled.
The agitated students, however, declared that they would continue their campaign till all their demand were met.
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Headline scared me - thought it said Rantburg University was closed.
Russian and Kazakh defense ministries agreed to jointly operate anti-ballistic missile testing range Balkhash located in Kazakhstan and leased by Russia, Kazakhstan Today reported on Jan. 31. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told reporters about the agreement on Jan. 31 after talks with his Kazakh counterpart Adilbek Dzhaksybekov.
"We had a detailed and thorough discussion of key issues. The main issue was an agreement on all the aspects for the further work and use of the Balkhash complex, its development and joint work aimed at air defense security," the Russian defense minister said.
The parties also agreed on the programs on Balkhash development, the minister said.
"For this purpose, this year we must begin training specialists, ensure access and. Joint exercises are the main part of our cooperation. This year they will be larger," he said.
Putin sometimes is very quiet in the way he goes about business and re-integrating the former Soviet Union...
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As per RUSSIA TODAY, Moscow is threatening to pull put of START + INF Treaty due to US allegations of Russian violation.
[Sources and Methods] Turkeys ethnic populations are, in a word, surprising.
For example, one would expect that speakers of Azerbaijani residing in Turkey would speak Northern Azerbaijani from Azerbaijan. Yet, according to Ethnologue, the Azerbaijani spoken within Turkeys borders is Southern Azerbaijani from Iran. This begs the question: are the ethnic Azeris in Turkey from Azerbaijan or Iran? Or both? Of course, all Azeris are ethnically Iranian, and Northern and Southern Azerbaijani are mutually intelligible as far as languages go, but the fact remains that many many Azerbaijanis living in Turkey did not originate where the name suggests.
The same is the case for the Kyrgyz speakers in Turkey who did not immigrate from Kyrgyzstan but were resettled in Turkeys Kars province from the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan after migrating into Pakistan through the Hindu Kush in the early 1980s.
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Don't forget the 'Turks' were from central Asia. Conquering their way to the old Byzantine lands they occupy today. No one worried about 'right of return' back then for losers. Possession was a 100% of the law.
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Saved to my reading list, so I can ponder it. Good find, Besoeker -- not our usual news item, but useful background, I think. Do you have any thoughts on how this will/could impact the War on Terror?
[Telegraph] US Secretary of State has been labelled an 'anti Semite' for warning of a possible economic boycott if Israel fails to reach a peace accord with the Palestinians. Kerry, while admittedly easy to dislike, is not the 'anti-Semite.' He is only the messenger.
John Kerry, the US secretary of state, triggered an angry backlash from Israeli leaders on Sunday after warning Israel faces an economic boycott if it failed to reach a peace accord with the Palestinians. Netanyahu will no doubt keep in mind that Castro and Mandela are still in power, despite sanctions.
The uproar came as Mr Kerry held cordial talks with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif in Munich at which the pair vowed to intensify nuclear diplomacy. Zarif to Kerry: You must lift the sanctions and place them elsewhere. Let me give you a delightful candidate.
Ministers in Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet accused Mr Kerry of effectively endorsing "anti-Semitic" efforts to impose sanctions on Israel by issuing the warning. Endorsing, encouraging, cajoling, threatening... yes to all the above.
"The risks are very high for Israel," Mr Kerry told the conference. "People are talking about boycott. That will intensify in the case of failure. Note the conveniently unidentified third parties.
"Do they want a failure that then begs whatever may come in the form of a response from disappointed Palestinians and the Arab community?" Kerry presents both specified and implied threats. The implied threat would impact any unilateral action by Israel against the nuclear weapons construction effort in Iran. It is only a subtle reminder, Israel already knows they are on their own.
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.
