Movie giant AMC Theatres says it won't be allowing people to wear costumes or face-covering masks into its theaters after a shooting in Colorado that killed at least 12 people and injured dozens more.
The Kansas City, Mo.-based company says in a statement on its website Friday that it is "terribly saddened by the random act of violence in Aurora."
The shooting happened during a a midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" in the Denver suburb. A suspect was arrested outside the theater.
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Does that include headscarves and veils?
Official uniforms, such as military?
Particular footwear, such as combat boots or those silly flat shoes all the OWS vandals had on?
Call me crass and outback, or at least too-soon, from a macro point of view, to see the entire movie industry brought to its knees and submitted by a random thoughtless event makes me cringe. Its not like the guy walked through the front door with firearms and a gas mask and the ticket-taker was like, oh nice gig-up, want to party with that dude. Ya got cameras and its proven we are a pack not a herd, no headgear in-line and through the gate. Want to dress like Adam West while waiting for popcorn, no problem, got your picture already.
I mean shit, back in the dorm days people got in through the fire escapes all the time, and they had buzzers and floor runners for the intercept. The system is there. How about a shitty ass glaring light when the emergency exit is open so everytime someone sneaks out for a smoke or toke or to let someone in, the entire theatre is annoyed, or in this case alerted.
(CBS/AP) AURORA, Colo. - Investigators are preparing to detonate shooting suspect James Holmes' apartment building, perhaps as early as today, if they can't safely gain access, reports CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor.
Holmes is being held in what is now the biggest mass shooting in U.S. history. I sure as hell hope they have thought this completely through. Think of dimethyl mercury...
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Absolutely rediculous! As P2k indicates, an Army EOD unit could handle that task quietly and with ease. [robots and cams, etc] Of course if you're looking at a Wako style media event and large kaboom....well, toss in a pound or two of C4.
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...next blackmarket apartments! [see VDH on such in CA that somehow spring up in garages but never get inspected by the building code people because it would be RACIST to do so]
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Detonation? Seems extreme. Is there not another way that would preserve evidence? See what might be battery activated and what might be activated by the apartment current? Shut down the power? Holmes might be smart but it is unlikely he is an explosives expert with extensive training. It is a surprise that he didn't detonate himself with some of the explosives he might have fabricated from available information.
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Holmes might be smart but it is unlikely he is an explosives expert with extensive training.
Send Holmes back into his apartment to disarm the devices. If he freezes up once he's in there, fire a Carl Gustav 84mm through the window. Both problems solved.
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The news coverage on that apartment EOD effort has become an anarchists primer. I hope and pray Holmes didn't concoct some homemade chemical or neurological agents that can be aerosolized.
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Robot disabled first trip wire that was set to empty two liquids together --- set to start a fire... removing the fire potential.
Once that was done, found the second trip wire.... used a cherry picker for some reason, soaked floor with water, and disengaged the second trip wire, seems with a robot.... folks can now enter the apartment.
Just me, but that SWAT team in the cherry picker.... well, you couldn't see their FBI T-shirts (cameras not allowed at that angle).... maybe from "down the road" as PK2 suggested.
Estimated 3.4 billion cubic meter find near Ras El-Bar announced Saturday by Ministry of Energy
A British company operating off the coast of Egypt discovered a large natural gas reservoir, the Egyptian Ministry of Energy announced on Saturday. The discovery by British Gas near Ras El-Bar reportedly contains 3.4 billion cubic meters of gas, according to Israel Radio.
So it's looking like the entire eastern basin of the Med has natural gas. Egypt, Israel, Turkey and Cyprus could be energy independent. That would change the politics in a hurry.
In April, Egypt unilaterally cancelled its agreement to supply Israel with natural gas in what appeared to be a new indication of the steadily deteriorating relations between the countries since the overthrow of president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... in 2011.
Some leading Israeli politicians characterized the cancelation as a major breach of the 1979 peace agreement, but the Israeli Prime Minister's Office and Egypt's ruling military leadership both described the move as "commercial" rather than "political" and said it was rooted in a dispute over interrupted supplies and payments.
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Egypt unilaterally cancelled its agreement to supply Israel with natural gas
I read that as: Egypt, which will soon need every bit of cash it can get its hands on to buy food, decided to screw the Juice and themselves. We would call it a Lose-Lose strategy, but it seems to be the prefered option in ME relations. No wonder the place is messed up.
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So it's looking like the entire eastern basin of the Med has natural gas. Egypt, Israel, Turkey and Cyprus could be energy independent. That would change the politics in a hurry.
It would depend on successfully executing the gas wells, Dr. Steve. As I've been pondering the situation, though, Egypt's ability to do that, even by contracting it out, concerns me. Especially as they're likely to be going through food riots at the same time, unless someone will loan them the necessary against a cut of future revenues. It seems to me that the repeated blowing up of the Israel/Jordan pipeline is more indicative of the future than the management of the Suez Canal.
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I took a 10 percent haircut on my salary 3 years ago, as an Estonian public servant, but I don't think you can argue with the results. We're growing at about a 6 percent clip right now, while most of Europe goes backwards.
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Interesting. One thing I noticed was the exceptionally high murder rate in Estonia compared to the rest of Europe and even compared to the USA. What is that all about? Is this just a naturally more violent culture?
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Estonia first came to my view when I was doing research on firearms related fatalities. Estonia was much higher than the US (we were 12th) and I thought that was odd for a European country. I eventually wrote it off to their high consumption of alcohol.
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The protesters have a point, although they are wrong on several others.
Spain isn't Greece. Public pensions and graft aren't the primary source of the debt crisis there. Over the last decade+, Spain invested in a lot of major prestige public works and banks invested in real estate projects aimed at selling holiday flats to Brits etc. These have been expensive, often incompleted boodoggles and in many cases are underwritten by the public debt that is now overhanging the Spanish economy as a whole.
Austerity measures will cut deeply into lower middle and middle class workers in Spain, while the EU bailouts will protect at least part of the assets of the real estate developers and banks.
[Dawn] A man allegedly murdered his sister in the name of honour in capital's rural area.
According to police, the accused was upset over his sister's secret marriage.
The incident took place at Satti Town located in Kirpa where the brother in a fit of rage allegedly shot Motia Bibi 19, dead when she disclosed her secret marriage in response to the family's pressure to accept another man against her will.
Police said the family had been pressurising the victim to marry a man of their choice but she refused repeatedly.
On Thursday, when she refused once again, her brother asked the reason behind it and took her to a separate room, where she confessed to have married secretly.
Minutes later, gunfire was heard and the family members rushed to the room only to find the girl lying on the earth in a pool of blood with a bullet injury in her head. The victim died at the spot.
The alleged killer beat feet from the house along with the pistol used in the attack.
Later, the police reached the spot and shifted the body to a hospital for an appointment with Dr. Quincy.
Police also registered a murder case against the brother in response to their father's complaint.
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[Dawn] Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. on Friday submitted nomination papers for his re-election on the Senator's seat, DawnNews reported.
Earlier on July 10, Malik had resigned from his Senate membership.
Malik submitted his nomination papers from Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... . Chief Minister Sindh Qaim Ali Shah and Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) leaders Raza Haroon and Dr Sagheer Ahmed were also present at the occasion.
The interior adviser said that he had resigned due to accusatory remarks from Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... and also because some people attached the proposed amendment in the dual nationality law with him.
After resigning from the Senate seat, Malik had said that he gave up his senatorship to openly campaign for the bill for the sake of 1.2 million overseas Paks.
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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
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
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Estimated 3.4 billion cubic meter find near Ras El-Bar announced Saturday by Ministry of Energy
A man allegedly murdered his sister in the name of honour in capital's rural area.
Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior 
Nawaz Sharif
