[Iran Press TV] Five people have been shot and injured during a shooting incident in the US state of Louisiana, according to American police officials.
I thought all the hoods moved to Houston...
The incident took place in New Orleans on Friday afternoon. New Orleans police front man Tyler Gamble announced that four male victims were maimed on Governor Nicholls Street and another male was shot six blocks away.
Two gunnies are on the lam and more than a dozen detectives and uniformed officers are investigating the incident. I blame Bush and Lingering Katrina Trauma (LKT). Recommend large monetary awards, SSA disability pensioning, and new FEMA trailers.
The incident happened two days after three people were killed and another one injured following a shooting in New York City.
William Madrey, Stephanie Almadina Rivera, and Ciara Smith, were fatally shot by a gunman and pronounced dead at the scene. Another woman who was standing next to the car at the time of the shooting was also hit, but she was expected to survive after receiving medical care at a nearby hospital.
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I thought all the hoods moved to Houston...
It appears that in regressive (vs progressive) Texas, they still have that stupid primitive death penalty thingy and they use it cause the native troglodytes keep putting those 'R' thingies in office. (do I need to put that /sarc thingy there too?)
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Po' boys, say on Governor Nicholls,
Who beef, can get roasted like Rickles,
So heed your Mitch mayor
And don't be a player --
Barack has your lettuce and pickles!
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So how do you maintain the borders
Once da hoods get a look at da Quarters?
Why stay stuck on Marais?
Sashay in from Treme
And exchange all your nasty disorders.
[Iran Press TV] White House press secretary Josh Earnest says the United State will impose economic sanctions on those who hacked the data of four million of current and former babus government employees. 'Red line', possible UN condemnation, or stronger messages to follow.
"In April, the president, using his executive authority, signed an executive order giving the Treasury Department additional authority to use economic sanctions to punish or hold accountable those who are either responsible for a cyber intrusion or are benefiting from one," he said.
American officials said Thursday hackers had broke into the computer system of the Office of Personnel Management.
Hackers gained access to the data of some 2.7 million current government workers and about 2 million retired workers.
Unnamed American officials claimed China was behind the massive hack.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry, however, announced that the accusations were irresponsible.
"Not to carry out a deep investigation and keep using words such as 'possible' is irresponsible and unscientific," Chinese Foreign Ministry front man Hong Lei said.
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Gosh, you mean he might pull his pacific rim trade bull bill?
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The government has turned a blind eye on this problem for years, IRS hack (was a test), OPM hack (a larger test)... what's next ?
Sanctions ? Right.
The horse has left the barn (no its not American Pharaoh) no getting the information back.
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Remember last week the idiot who said do away with all paper money and force people to do all transactions electronically. Single point of failure to shut down such an economy apply demonstrated by the Chinese day after day. Think what would happen if the switch is pulled on electronic transfers even today.
[NATION.PK] Prominent scientist Ameenah Gurib-Fakim was Thursday approved by the parliament of Mauritius as the Indian Ocean island nation's new president, making her the first woman to hold the ceremonial position.
Parliament speaker Maya Hanoomanjee, who is also the first woman to hold that post, said the overwhelming approval of Gurib-Fakim's designation was an historic day for the country. The opposition also supported her appointment, making the vote a mere formality. 'I have always believed in the equality of men and women,' Prime Minister Sir Anerood Jugnauth told news hounds.
Her inauguration ceremony will take place on Friday, officials said. Gurib-Fakim, 56, becomes the first female president of the island, which gained independence from Britannia in 1968 and replaced Britannia's Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state in 1992. Former president Kailash Purryag stepped down as the island's figurehead last week.
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[Breitbart] Breitbart Texas has learned that a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter was shot down or forced to initiate an emergency landing in Laredo, Texas due to receiving gunfire from the Mexican side of the border. The helicopter was interdicting a narcotics load and working alongside agents from the U.S. Border Patrol, who operate under the umbrella of the CBP. The helicopter was operating in the Laredo Sector of Texas, immediately across the border from the Los Zetas cartel headquarters of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Stock photo, not identified as the aircraft from the incident.
The helicopter was in U.S. airspace and participating in the interdiction of a narcotics load coming from Mexico into the United States.
A federal agent who spoke with Breitbart Texas on the condition of anonymity said, "U.S. Border Patrol agents were attempting to intercept a drug load. A law enforcement chopper was assisting Border Patrol agents. The chopper received gunfire from the Mexican side of the border. The chopper had to do an emergency landing due to the gunfire."
Border Patrol agent and National Border Patrol Council Local 2455 President Hector Garza confirmed that he received unofficial reports on this matter that indicate the information provided to Breitbart Texas by the unnamed federal agent is accurate.
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Border Patrol agent and National Border Patrol Council Local 2455 President Hector Garza confirmed
....and the American public receives a confirmation of the incident from a Union Steward. We are just so buggered.
Obviously the borders need to be closed due to the illegal traffic, both drugs and people. I doubt any action will be taken however. Drugs have become a staple of urban commerce. Illegal immigrants are replacement democratic voters. Look for more, not less.
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I wouldn't mind a squadron of Apache Helicopters roaming the Rio Grande.
It is a target rich environment and think of the useful training it would give our Army Aviation guys before they go to the main events in the middle east.
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One of two possibilities: A) This is the government's opening bid to get the Violence Against Women Act renewed this winter, or B) It is an enabling act that allows the federal government to aid statehouse allies in such states as New York and Connecticut, two states which are experiencing massive civil disobedience to registration of firearms.
Legal matters in Texas over the police ambush in Waco are still pending. An awful lot of misinformation is being served up by the web, including the charge that Waco cops fired "thousands" of rounds of ammunition at the bikers. other rumors are that four police shooters fired all the shots. I suspect people making these claims don't do the math with regard to how an AR style semiautomatic or automatic works.
It is privilege granted by your state's security services, something you paid for with an intrusive background check and a payment of a fee to the government. Someone ask this guy how much of his "right" will exist if the Georgia statehouse becomes overrun with leftists.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol ammunition were mostly higher while rifle ammunition prices were mixed.
Prices for used pistols were mixed, while prices for used rifles were lower across the board.
Note: Once again the nationwide average price for the AR-10 pattern 7.62 NATO semiautomatic rifle has dropped, this time by $8 to a new low of $920 from a high of $1,359 only eight weeks ago. The weekly average drop is almost $55 per week.
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Quality Made Cartridges, Store Brand, FMJ, reloads, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 300 rounds: Homeland Munitions, Store Brand, FMJ, Reloads, .27 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each)
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: SOWW Armory, Summit, FMJ, Reloads, .26 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, American Quality, FMJ, reloads, .24 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: SG Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Homeland Munitions, Store brand, FMJ, Reloads, .17 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .29 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 500 Rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store Brand, New, FMJ, .33 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Today's Ammo, Wolf Polyformance, steel cased, FMJ, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: South Georgia Outdoors, Wolf Polyformance, steel cased, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire USA, Tulammo, steel cased, .43 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Tulammo, steel cased, .40 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (6 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf WPA, steel case, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf WPA, steel case, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q 2015))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds (10 Box Limit): AmmoMen, Remington Thunderbolt, RNL, .09 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Munire USA, Raptor, RNL, .09 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each)
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
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The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms is preparing new regulations that news reports say make firearms ownership, not just firearms transfers a province of the government.
As someone said, the 2nd Amendment is my gun permit."
[Iran Press TV] The former vice president of Panama, Felipe Virzi, has been tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on charges of money laundering in an ongoing investigation.
Virzi allegedly reaped millions of dollars for illegally assisting a company to win a government contract. Hopefully he destroyed his personal computer server.
He was the vice president of Panama from 1994 to 1999, spending a total of five years in public office in the Central American country.
Virzi was the business partner of ex-president Ricardo Martinelli, who himself in being investigated by authorities on similar charges.
Anti-corruption prosecutors, who were investigating the case, ordered Virzi's arrest on Wednesday.
Investigators claim that Virzi received a USD 10-million payment from an Ecuadoran company for helping it win an irrigation system contract. He was reportedly no longer vice president at the time of the alleged payment.
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Lugansk interior ministry troops disarmed a Cossack military unit they say refused to join the Lugansk military and logistical system, according to Russian language news reports.
According to a news article on regnum.ru, on Friday interior ministry troops and agents with the Lugansk Prosecutor General office detained an undisclosed number of Cossack fighters, military equipment and ammunition, and detained the leader of a local territorial defense battalion.
The commander of the Cossack 9th Territorial Defense Battalion, identified as Ataman Aleksandr Konkin was placed under arrest along with "dozens" of fighters near the Lugansk locality of Rovenki, where the unit was based.
According to the news report, the commanders of the unit has refused to become part of the unitary command system of Lugansk, and were looting and robbing citizens of Rovenki for resources.
Among materiel seized were 200 cars, seven machine guns, grenade launchers with ammunition, six ammunition trucks, two BMP infantry fighting vehicles and two armored cars.
Konkin had gained the attention of Lugansk civilian authorities after he gave interviews on local television stations introducing himself as the commander for the 9th Territorial Battalion, part of the Lugansk Army.
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Public disputes over casualty figures for the battle of Marinka from last Wednesday have arisen as the president of Donetsk claims Ukrainian dead to be as high as 400, according to Russian language news accounts.
Officially, the battle for Marinka was concluded Wednesday, but indications from Russian military bloggers and analysts, as well as from rebel media, are that the fighting for Marinka continues.
Friday Donetsk president Aleksandr Zakharchenko claimed that battle losses for Ukrainians in the eight hour fight amounted to 400 dead and more than 1,000 wounded, numbers which are comparable to the losses by the Germans and the Russian Red Army in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, casualty numbers which are considered exaggerated, even by Russian military journalists.
Russian military analyst Boris Rozhin said Ukrainian losses were in the range of 200 killed in action (KIA).
Previous reports in Ukrainian news sources had claimed that Marinka was still held by Ukrainian forces, and that rebel forces which has taken the town had withdrawn following a rebel armored counterattack.
Zakharchenko said in remarks on Friday that rebel forces had in fact taken Marinka, the center of the villages and control a key crossroads at Krasnogorovka, and had destroyed 60 pieces of Ukrainian military equipment, including four artillery batteries.
However, Ukrainian president Piotr Poroshenko was quoted Friday as saying Marinka was still in Ukrainian hands.
Prisoners taken by rebel forces from the Ukrainian 28th Mechanized Brigade, the main Ukrainian units deployed to Marinka, have said in rebel sponsored press conferences that the losses by the Ukrainian were massive. Other Russian language reports say that hospitals which serve the Ukrainian effort against the Donbas rebels are said to be overflowing with wounded evacuated since Wednesday.
Thursday, rebel media said that Ukrainian artillery was fired on several regions in western Donetsk including in residential areas.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraina by clicking here.
[Al Ahram] The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... called Friday on all sides in Ukraine to fully uphold a European-brokered ceasefire after an upsurge of fighting raised fears of a return to all-out conflict.
"The ceasefire must be fully respected and the protection of civilians a priority," UN political chief Jeffrey Feltman told an emergency Security Council meeting.
"We are either looking at a return to a deepening intractable conflict or a momentary upsurge in parts of the conflict zone," he told the 15-member council.
"We cannot afford either scenario."
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Greece delayed repayment of an IMF loan on Friday and a deputy minister said Athens might call snap elections to break an impasse with lenders that threatens to push the country into bankruptcy and out of the euro.
European stocks fell and Greek bond yields shot higher as investors worried that months of bitter negotiations between Greece and its international creditors might yet end in failure.
Raising the stakes in the talks, Greece decided to postpone payment of the 300 million euro ($338 million) loan - a highly unusual step, but one that does not yet signal a formal default.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Oil group OPEC agreed to stick by its policy of unconstrained output for another six months on Friday, setting aside warnings of a second lurch lower in prices as some members such as Iran look to ramp up exports.
Concluding a meeting with no apparent dissent, 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...
n Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries had rolled over its current output ceiling, renewing support for the shock market treatment it doled out late last year when 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... , the world's top supplier, said it would no longer cut output to keep prices high.
The group will meet again on Dec. 4, Naimi said.
With oil prices having rebounded by more than a third after hitting a six-year low of $45 a barrel in January, officials meeting in Vienna saw little reason to tinker with a strategy that seems to have resurrected moribund growth in world oil consumption and put a damper on the U.S. shale boom.
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Because they don't know what else to do I expect.
Their revenue burn rate is approaching their gain rate.
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) -- Coming into close contact with cats can spread a parasite called Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) -- also dubbed the "cat poop parasite" -- which are linked to schizophrenia and other mental disorders that affect humans.
The cat-carried parasite is the most common in developed countries and can infect any warm-blooded species, according to the Schizophrenia Bulletin. Although most humans don't suffer any symptoms from the widespread parasite, it can cause the illness T. gondii, which is linked to weeks of flu-like symptoms, blindness and even death, CBS News reports.
Two new studies have now linked the T. gondii parasite to increased rates of mental illness in cat owners who may have had increased exposure to parasitic infection.
"Cat ownership in childhood has now been reported in three studies to be significantly more common in families in which the child is later diagnosed with schizophrenia or another serious mental illness," write study authors E. Fuller Torrey of the Stanley Medical Research Institute and Dr. Robert H. Yolken of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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.
[Iran Press TV] The former vice president of Panama, Felipe Virzi, has been 
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Greece delayed repayment of an IMF loan on Friday and a deputy minister said Athens might call snap elections to break an impasse with lenders that threatens to push the country into bankruptcy and out of the euro.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Oil group OPEC agreed to stick by its policy of unconstrained output for another six months on Friday, setting aside warnings of a second lurch lower in prices as some members such as Iran look to ramp up exports.
