Guess How Many Were Arrested?
[The Blaze] A group of as many as five women were caught on camera in a clothing store slugfest on Friday in Philadelphia, WCAU-TV reported.
The fight occurred in a Zara clothing store in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square neighborhood, WCAU reported. At one point, a woman climbed onto a display and launched herself onto another, WWE-style, WCAU noted. Excuse me, are you being served ?
It's unclear what sparked the bitter altercation. Looks like it broke out in sweaters and blouses. The Daily Mail covered the blow-by-blow action.
End of season prices on cashmere? That's worth fighting for.
[Washington Post] "FBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all trials before 2000."
The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.
Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches
Fire the 26 effective immediately, with no pensions and no references. If any others discovered to have given flawed testimony during the period inquestion turn out to be already retired, halt their pensions permanently effective the next pay period.
in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Innocence Project, which are assisting the government with the country’s largest post-conviction review of questioned forensic evidence. It's OK though. They are very sorry.
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over more than a two-decade period before 2000
What? Before Bush was precident? Maybe the overstating began in Texas when he was the G.
No, I guess it was earlier than that.
[NBC News] Clowns brawled with animal rights protesters under a circus big top in San Bernardino Friday night, witnesses say.
Hundreds of spectators watched the fight break out when workers allegedly tried to stop the activists from forcing their way inside after the Ramos Bros. Circus show began. Ya ever been hit with a rubber chicken? Those things hurt.
Two protestors were arrested following the melee, while two circus employees were injured when the fight broke out at 8:08 p.m., according to a San Bernardino Police Department spokesman.
Ringmaster Oliver Ramos claimed his lip was split after he was hit on the face with his megaphone in trying to keep protestors outside. "All I had to fight back with was a squirting flower and a foam bat."
"All of a sudden when I turned around one of them jumped on top of my uncle - he's over 68-years-old - and they started beating on him and I reacted," Ramos said. "When I pulled them off they hit me with a megaphone in the face and all these ladies started scratching me on the face."
However protester Nicholas Shaw-McMinn claimed they were protesting non-violently, and that protesters were the ones attacked by the circus workers. The scary clowns started it. Haven't you seen "It"."
"Employees locked us on the property and wouldn't let us leave. They assaulted... multiple protestors, some with weapons," Shaw-McMinn said. "They threw buckets of confetti on us. They hit us with foam bats and squirted us with water from fake flowers."
He also claimed one of the workers placed him in a choke hold during the clash. "He also turned me into a newt."
The activists, who said they are members of the Direct Action Everywhere group, provided video which showed them protesting outside the big top before the melee.
The Ramos Bros. Circus website boasts that the show features "animals from all over the world," showing images of lamas, camels and horses. What, no elephants?
Ramos said he does not mind activists protesting on the street but wants them to stay off the property where the circus is performing. He also believes something has to be done to prevent further clashes occurring.
"These people are just crazy fanatics... it has to stop. These people are getting out of hand," Ramos said.
However it seems they will not be staying away, as more than 100 protesters are expected to show up for more demonstrations taking place Saturday.
The "Protest Ramos Bros. Circus" Facebook page says: "Traveling animal acts perpetuate animal cruelty, inhumane care, public safety hazards and distorted images of wildlife. And we are dingbats!
"As compassionate animal lovers we must stop animal entertainment and extend our love to all animals. Animals are not our (sic) to use, they are not our property; they are beings that desire the same freedoms as us."
It also claims circus animals are trained using methods such as whipping, hitting, poking, and shocking with electrical prods.
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SEND IN THE LIONS! Or at least the pit bulls...
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This needs to be met with armed resistance. At this point the state government has become completely tyrannical and I doubt its supreme court will stop this.
This is the very reason that the founding fathers wanted citizens to have weapons and a militia to defend themselves. The police facing a wall of armed citizens will send a very serious message of how far we are willing to go to protect our freedoms. Do these bullies and tyrants dare to cross it?
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the 'obeying orders' may not protect but the deference given to prosecutors is very great and even an egregious case like this is difficult to deal with; probably the guilty parties will get away with a reprimand and remain heroes and heroines to the left in WI
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If government keeps pushing such injustices and abuses of power, sooner or later they are going to put someone in a position where they believe they have nothing left to lose; that is the most dangerous kind of person there is. If he's trained and armed, the results could be catastrophic, both to the offending government and to our future as a lawful nation.
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.....sooner or later they are going to put someone in a position where they believe they have nothing left to lose; that is the most dangerous kind of person there is.
The time is rapidly coming where the government feels they have everything to lose if they don't stomp on those that feel they have nothing left to lose by standing up for themselves.
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Average people's lives were torn up and ruined by these 'investigations'.
Mr. French's NR article only scratches the very surface of what was (and still is in some cases) going on with this John Doe investigation. The 'defendants' are still under court orders not to divulge what what they're going through. Mr. O'Keefe is a brave soul to expose what has happened to him. He admits that others were pried into and disrupted a lot worse than he was.
As more and more information becomes publicly available, hopefully the prosecutor and his 'team' (including a large presence by D party and union operatives) will be made to face the music. The wheels in Wisconsin are turning slowly towards that, but could still get derailed by a Federal Judge, a court somewhere or perhaps a WH Attorney General.
Normally, this activity and the consequences would be covered up by major news sources. We'll see if they continue to do so.
I wish I was more optimistic, but I'm not.
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[Jen Kuzniki blog] "About ten o'clock, Dr. Warren sent in great haste for me, and begged that I would immediately set off for Lexington, where Messrs. Hancock and Adams were, and acquaint them of the movement, and that it was thought they were the objects.
When I got to Dr. Warren's house, I found he had sent an express by land to Lexington -- a Mr. William Dawes.
The Sunday before, by desire of Dr. Warren, I had been to Lexington, to Messrs. Hancock and Adams, who were at the Rev. Mr. Clark's.
I returned at night through Charlestown; there I agreed with a Colonel Conant and some other gentlemen, that if the British went out by water, we would show two lanthorns in the North Church steeple and if by land, one as a signal; for we were apprehensive it would be difficult to cross the Charles River, or get over Boston Neck.
I left Dr. Warren, called upon a friend, and desired him to make the signals. I then went home, took my boots and surtout, went to the north part of the town, where I kept a boat; two friends rowed me across Charles River a little to the eastward where the Somerset man-of-war lay. It was then young flood, the ship
was winding, and the moon rising.
They landed me on the Charlestown side. When I got into town, I met Colonel Conant and several others; they said they had seen our signals. I told them what was acting, and went to get me a horse; I got a horse of Deacon Larkin."
Well written, informative, and exciting. It covers the spy network then the raid of the Regulars. Two of the concepts he challenges in this book is The British are Coming - the colonials still considered themselves British, so The Regulars, meaning the Army, are coming. Second is that the colonial militia were a bunch of straw chewing hicks when many were veterans of the French-Indian war and knew a couple things about soldering. Also, that it wasn't just Paul Revere but a whole network who went out that night.
Staunton, April 19 -- Yury Dolinsky, a Russian analyst who specializes on the Baltic countries, says that most residents of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, however much they say they are worried about the Russian threat, believe that their membership in NATO will keep Moscow from invading or force Moscow to withdraw if it does invade to test the Western alliance.
But Jaan Murumets, a senior Estonian military analyst who now works at Tallinn's Center for Defense Studies, says that there is another reason why Russia will not invade: it lacks the available forces to seize and then hold the territory of the three countries and control their borders.
In remarks widely quoted in the Estonian and Russian media, Murumets said that a rapid Russian invasion and re-occupation of the Baltic countries "would be physically impossible." Moscow would need "a minimum" of two divisions for each of these tasks, something it does not currently have available.
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Again, Russia's most immediate threat is the domestic threat from the Soon-to-be-Nukulaar Hard Boyz, which IMO is why Darth Vlad took the Crimea back.
Hard Boyz + Global Nuclear Jihad as aided by Russia's struggling economy, + Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS Obama + any similar Anti-US US Globalist POTUS successor, + China's desire to regain Mongolia + Russian far East.
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The little green men of the weak jawed dwarf pedophile Vlad "Adolf Hitler" Putin are not too impressive in Donbass against the practically non-existent Ukrainian military...Vlad would be wiped out against any real military...
[International Business Times] The West must do everything possible to curb Russian aggression, including "sending in nuclear missiles," said Walesa. "It's important to show we have them, and that they are better than Russia's." Walesa, who started his political career as an anti-communist trade union activist in the 1970s, was fundamental in seeing Poland's transition from a communist state to the Republic of Poland during his five years as president from 1990 to 1995. He was persecuted by Poland's communist government during his early years in politics.
[AnNahar] Germany's vice chancellor on Sunday called for European action against human traffickers after a refugee boat shipwreck in the Mediterranean was feared to have claimed 700 lives.
"All European police and border authorities must make every possible effort to fight the criminal trafficking gangs who profit from human misery," said Sigmar Gabriel. "We need an international operation against people smugglers."
Gabriel spoke after the overnight capsize of a packed fishing boat that was attempting to smuggle hundreds of migrants from Libya to Italia.
"We must no longer accept that Europe on its outer borders too often means death, not humanity," he said.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said a Europol team was already looking at the trafficking gangs, because we must "not tolerate that these criminals sacrifice human lives en masse out of sheer greed."
Germany's integration commissioner Aydan Ozoguz said it had been an "illusion" to think that ending the "Mare Nostrum" sea rescue program would deter people from attempting the perilous sea journey.
She said warmer temperatures in coming weeks could mean more refugee ships and that "that's why we must relaunch the rescue program."
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said part of the answer would have to be "to try to bring more stability to Libya" to help the North African country crack down on traffickers.
Illegal immigration, mostly from Africa, has rapidly expanded with ruthless people smugglers based in chaotic Libya taking overcrowded, unseaworthy boats across the Mediterranean, mostly to Italia and Greece.
Southern EU countries have complained that they are bearing too much of the brunt of the rescue work and processing of migrants.
The latest shipwreck took place between Libya and Malta and, if the toll is confirmed, would be easily the biggest such disaster to date.
[AnNahar] A Moroccan man who was denied political asylum in Germany suffered severe burns when he doused himself in petrol and set himself on fire in front of shocked passers-by, police said Sunday.
The 36-year-old man had announced his suicide attempt in a phone call to police, ahead of his scheduled deportation Monday by German authorities.
When he set himself ablaze Saturday evening, people on the street tried to help douse the flames before police put them out with a fire extinguisher.
The man was taken with severe burns to a hospital in the town of Lingen, Lower Saxony state, and then moved by helicopter to a specialist burns unit in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Germany, Europe's most populous country, has become Europe's top destination for asylum seekers. Last year, asylum requests rose 60 percent to more than 200,000, and they are expect to increase further this year.
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Maybe they (France, Italy, Germany, UK) should follow Obama's lead with Cuba and reengage in imperialistic colonialism in Northern Africa to draw the hapless immigrants back.
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After ISIL maybe the open minded will reevaluate the crusades. Maybe after this continues, they might even reconsider 'colonialism' to get to the source of the problem.
[Dawn] Compared to the $46 billion China plans to invest in Pakistain, the $7.5 billion US package for Pakistain was too thinly scattered, according to a former Pentagon official.
David S. Sedney, who headed the Pakistain desk at the Pentagon, said the US package also failed to make a strategic impact on Pakistain.
Some Western diplomats told CBS News that China's increasing economic engagement with Pakistain should be seen in the context of Beijing's "efforts to counter the US efforts to deepen alliances around the Asia-Pacific region".
In an interview to The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , Mr Sedney noted that the 2009-2012 US aid package for Pakistain designated $7.5 billion for development projects over five years. He called the package a "dramatic failure" because the resources were "scattered too thinly, and had no practical or strategic impact.
The official noted that the Chinese seemed to have learned from the American programme, "including the notion that the American plan was designed to deliver a strategic result - deterring terrorism -- but failed to do so".
To do better than the United States, the Chinese have come up with "a much larger financial commitment -- and it is focused on a specific area, it has a signature infrastructure focus and it is a decades-long commitment," he said.
Other US media outlets pointed out that China would use this massive investment package to expand Pakistain's network of roads, rails and ports. The purpose of the initiative was to connect China to Europe through Central Asia and Russia, the reports said.
The reports noted that in November, China announced plans to build the Silk Road Economic Belt and Maritime Silk Road, which would connect Pakistain to China and Central Asia.
Pak officials told The New York Times China's $46 billion would be used for the construction of roads, rails and power plants. Chinese engineers will be dispatched over 15 years to work in Pakistain in projects that overshadow past US support.
The newspaper also spoke to senior Pak officials and politicians who pointed out that "the Chinese are stepping in, in a much, much bigger way than the United States ever contemplated.
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Love watching the Prowlers doing their T & G here @ NASWI. Growlers ain't quite as much fun, but still being downwind satisfies the need for JP in the morning/afternoon/evening......
And the Growlers' engine noise carries to my house much nicer than the 408's.
[The Right Scoop] A couple of years ago it was reported that Turkey was helping fund the building of a $100 million dollar mega mosque in Lanham, Maryland. In fact Erdogan visited the mosque when he was here in May of 2013, promising to come back for the opening.
Well that time has apparently arrived and now Erdogan and the Champ will be together at the mosque for the big opening ceremony:
ANADOLU AGENCY -- The presidents of Turkey and the U.S. will open the Turkish-American Culture and Civilization Center in Maryland, Turkey's foreign minister said Sunday.
Mevlut Cavusoglu, on a three-day visit to Washington, visited the center that also has a middle-sized mosque, and lunched with representatives from the American Muslim community.
"During a phone call, President (Recep Tayyip) Erdogan asked President (Barack) Obama to accompany him in opening the center together and President Obama accepted his offer'in principle,'" Cavusoglu told the representatives.
If Champ's schedule allows at the time of the opening, he will accompany Erdogan. The complex is built on a large area and consists of a coffee house, gift shops, cultural center, amphitheater and exhibition hall, computer lab, library, Turkish bath/hamam and guest house.
Cavusoglu said the center has been constructed as a place where all Muslims in the U.S. could come together and worship freely.
He said Muslims have faced increased challenges across the world, particularly due to rising Islamophobia.
"Our duty is to tell the true Islam which is a religion of peace. Islam does not tolerate terrorism. But unfortunately al-Qaeda and Daesh terror groups have tarnished the image of Islam," he said. Daesh, also known as Islamic State is neither Islamic nor is a state, he added Turkish Weekly article on the new Mosque.
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] "FBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all trials before 2000."
[NBC News] Clowns brawled with animal rights protesters under a circus big top in San Bernardino Friday night, witnesses say.
