[SACRAMENTO.CBSLOCAL] An Auburn man brought a chain saw to a bar fight after an argument over inappropriately touching another man's chest, Nevada County Sheriff's Deputies said.
Stinky Mulligan's Bar was turned into a real-life haunted house when deputies said Weston Cecil Burton, 31, touched another man's chest.
When the victim slapped Burton in the face and pushed him down, Burton allegedly went and grabbed his chain saw from his truck, started it up, and brought it into the bar.
"This place is so wackadoodle, that only in a small town could you get something like this," said Brian Lowenthal, who runs the shopping center.
Even a man in a skull mask is spooked by what happened.
"I thought I was funny when I read it in the newspaper, but when I thought about it, I don't like that bar anymore," he said.
Not surprisingly, nobody in the bar was eager to step up to stop the suspect wielding his weapon.
But before Burton could do any damage to his victim, witnesses say his chain saw stalled, and cut out.
That's when patrons jumped in and grabbed the chain saw. Burton took off, but he left his credit card at the bar. OK, boys. It look's like drinks are on...Weston Cecil Burton.
He was later tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on charges of assault with a deadly weapon. He posted bond and was released from the Nevada County Jail.
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cheez whattya do there, fort up at the billiard ball return and use the bridge as a pike, aim for knuckles and nose, make a stone face and sling the 8?
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"He posted bond and was released from the Nevada County Jail.".... and returned to the Sierra Saw Power Equipment Company in Auburn, where he began shopping for his replacement chain saw and later he rented a copy of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre knowing he needed to brush-up on his techniques...
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inappropriately touching another man's chest
in CA?
Good news coming out of everywhere except California. 99,999,999 firearms were not used in the shooting in Los Angeles. The shooter, who is now in police custody was identified as 23 year old Anthony Ciancia from New Jersey. Our glorious state run press can't seem to get a handle on why the shooting took place. Guess they haven't read down or checked the "F*cker was crazy" box, so far. Also maddeningly, we get no report of the type of weapon used by the crazy bastard. These things matter.
More good news for gun owners: If you are white, and have never uttered a racial epithet in your life, no matter where in the political spectrum you are, if you own a gun, you are a racist. Two psychologists from somewhere in the Commonwealth concluded that very salient "fact" this week. Amusingly, the authors concluded that because so many blacks were being shot, it must be whites doing the shooting, inasmuch as data shows blacks prefer shooting blacks by almost a 10 to 1 margin.
If you think I am pessimistic, I can only reply damn right. I wrote in 2003 that, ... When my children are my age, they will not be free in any recognizably traditional American meaning of the word. I'd tell them to emigrate, but there's nowhere left to go. I am left with nauseating near-conviction that I am a member of the last generation in the history of the world that is minimally truly free.
But even then I did not imagine that it would happen so fast. America: Fork. Stick. Done.
Our Lady told us at Fatima that this would happen. Even the Church has been co-opted into the Global Luciferian Revolution. Now Christ alone stands between us and oblivion.
That's enough for me.
My goal -- my one and only aim -- is to keep my family alive, together, and Catholic for another twenty years. My children will be grown and on their own by then -- and that's when the gloves come off. I will be 69 years old that year, and I will have nothing, nothing left to lose.
And, as Kris Kristofferson once told us, "freedom's just another word for 'nothing left to lose'." I will, at last, be free.
And, as RAH pointed out, you can't enslave a free man. You can only kill him.
I once had a very, very realistic dream, a dream, I took as an actual vision of the future. It was a vision of my death. I die alone, covered in blood, smiling, in a field of tall grass. It is bitterly cold, but I am happy, because I am dying in battle, after defeating the Forces of Evil in a one-on-one final fight to the death. I have killed my final enemy; now, I go Purgatory; thence to Valhalla, or whatever the Christian equivalent is.
I can't imagine a better way to go.
Take heart, folks. Even the USSR -- the greatest, most evil tyranny that ever existed -- only lasted 70 years. Neither Fidel, nor the Communo-capitalist regime in China, nor the Kim family enterprise in Korea, will beat that record by much.
And neither will we.
Sooner or later, the tumbril will call for me. I have no illusions about anonymity, and the stuff I post on the Internet, while completely legal, is just too disrespectful of Authoritah. Until then, however, I plan on giving the big fat East Dallas Flying Finger to every plan, scheme, institution, agency, actor, establishment, dogma, doctrine, axiom, sacred cow, and icon of the Global Revolutionary State.
I advise you all to do the same. Because if it's one thing these smug, sincere, self-worshiping little Stalins can't bear, it's having the Kulaks laughing at their mustaches. Go to the Gulag with a smirk on your face and YOU WIN.
And when the devil hath seen that they have set so little by him, after certain essays, made in such times as he thought most fitting, he hath given that temptation quite over. And this he doth not only because the proud spirit cannot endure to be mocked, but also lest, with much tempting the man to the sin to which he could not in conclusion bring him, he should much increase his merit. -- Saint Thomas More, Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation (1553),Book Two, Section XVI.
Until then, remember: all Winston Smith had to do in order to defeat Big Brother was scream MORE RATS.
Be seeing you
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Rifle ammunition prices were steady or lower with .308 ammunition continuing to post a modest price increase, while pistol ammunition was unchanged to lower.
Prices for used weapons of all categories for private sale were mixed.
Pistol Ammo
.45 caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Tulammo, .34 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: BluCore Shooting Center, P&G Performance, reloaded, .35 per round (+.01 each from last week)
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Selway Armory, Ultramax, reloaded, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, store brand, reloaded, .28 per round (-.04 each from last week)
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain, From Last Week: -.03 each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Selway Armory, BVAC, Reloaded, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Battle Bag Ammo, Reloaded, .24 per round (Unchanged)
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each ( +.12 each over previous four weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Goose Island Sales, Armscor, .42 per round
Cheapest Bulk: No Listing
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: -.02 each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire USA, Monarch, steel cased, .30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Tulammo, steel cased, .23 per round (Last Week: -.09 each )
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: +.11 each (after -.21 over five weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Goose Island Sales, No Label, steel cased, .61 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000 rounds: Ammo Supply Warehouse, Prvi Partizan, .60 per round (+.04 from Last Week)
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each ( After unchanged previous Five Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo Supply Warehouse, Wolf Polyformance, steel core and case, .26 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000 rounds: Ammo Supply Warehouse, Wolf Polyformance, steel core and case, .25 per round (Unchanged from Last Week)
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (Five Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Fast, Eley Target, .10 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo Fast, Aguila, .12 per round (+.04 from last week after -.06 each over previous two weeks)
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $823 Last Week Avg: $670
California: American tactical Imports AR-15: $720
Texas: DPMS: $1,000
New York: CMMG M-4: $900
Virgina: Palmetto State Armory: $800
Florida: Stag Arms: $695
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,228 Last Week Avg: $1,264
California: Sig Sauer M716 Patrol: $1,240
Texas: Armalite AR-10 $1,100
New York: Sig Sauer M716 Patrol: $1,600
Virginia: Smith & Wesson MP-10: $1,500 (Prolly Same gun, lower price)
Florida: DPMS Sportical: $799
7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $750 Last Week Avg: $665
California: Draco: $950
Texas: WASR: $750
New York: Saiga: $750 (Same Gun)
Virginia: Polish AKS: $650
Florida: WASR: $650
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Had some work done this week at the local gunsmith. He's now required (by the ATF), to keep a written log in an ATF folder, of all firearms coming into the shop for repair or servicing. Info such as dates, and type of firearm, SN, owner's name and phone number are required. When he asked the local femme-Nazi ATF agent why this was necessary she replied, "it is necessary in order to ensure the shop owner is able to return the correct firearm to the owner".
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Teapot Party logic..."The best way to protect us from gun violence is...MORE GUNS!!" Too bad guns aren't syphilis...
Actually, a gun owning citizenry is the last line of defense against tyrants and their friends, such as you, who want only to help tyrants succeed in the absence of armed citizens.
You liberals keep focusing on crime as a reason to take guns away from citizens using such words as "law abiding", as if obeying unjust laws was the highest thing a person could be.
But there is something higher and better than than that, something you can never be; a free man.
[An Nahar] A young Moroccan tore down the Algerian flag from the roof of that country's consulate in Casablanca during a protest Friday over Western Sahara, sparking an angry protest from Algiers.
A video widely circulated on Internet sites in Morocco shows the man climbing the walls of the building to reach the flag.
A police official told Agence La Belle France Presse the man, a member of a group called "Royalist Youth", was tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... and would appear before a judge.
Dozens of people had gathered outside the consulate in Morocco's economic capital to protest over comments by Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term, who will probably die in office of old age... on disputed Western Sahara.
In a speech read out in Bouteflika's name at a meeting in Abuja, he said an international mechanism to monitor human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... in Western Sahara was needed "more than ever."
Bouteflika referred to "massive and systematic human rights violations that take place inside the occupied territories to suppress the peaceful struggle" of the Sahrawi people.
Rabat in protest recalled its ambassador to Algiers.
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[An Nahar] Forty-eight Egyptian undocumented Democrats who went missing in the desert of eastern Libya at the start of the week were found by the Libyan air force on Friday, a security official said.
Dozens of Egyptians entered Libya but were abandoned on Monday by smugglers on the desert road between Tobruk and Ajdabiya.
One of the group managed to reach a town and alert the Libyan authorities, who launched a search.
"The Libyan air force on Friday morning sighted 48 of the Egyptians lost in the Libyan desert," Colonel Abdallah al-Zaidi, security forces front man for the eastern region of Benghazi, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"Vehicles are being sent out to rescue them," he said.
On Tuesday, the Egyptian foreign ministry announced that two members of the group had died and dozens gone missing after crossing Libya's long and mostly non-existent border.
According to the private channel Libya al-Ahrar, the group totals around 60 and also include Sudanese nationals.
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[An Nahar]Gunmen opened fire on a five-star hotel in Cairo near the famed Giza pyramids on Friday, an Egyptian police general said, in what appeared to be a labor dispute.
Interior ministry front man General Hany Abdel Latif said the attack was carried out by laid off hotel workers, and that there were no casualties.
The attackers fired birdshot or pistol rounds at the Amarante Pyramids Hotel, he told Agence La Belle France Presse.
A hotel employee who requested anonymity said the attack happened early in the morning, and that police were investigating.
The official MENA news agency reported police were searching for the laid off workers suspected of being behind the shooting.
The attackers were angered after they were refused entry to the hotel, the agency reported.
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[An Nahar] A top U.N. official warned Friday that anarchy in Central African Republic risks becoming "genocide" as armed Christian and Mohammedan groups battle each other.
The giant but impoverished nation has slid into lawlessness since rebels overthrew President Francois Bozize in March. La Belle France has called for a U.N. peacekeeping force to be deployed and is increasing its own military presence there.
Adama Dieng, a special advisor to U.N. leader the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... on the prevention of genocide, backed the call for U.N. peacekeepers to take over from a small African force and for the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... to investigate.
"We are seeing gangs killing people under the guise of their religion and my feeling is that this will end with Christian communities, Mohammedan communities killing each other," Dieng told news hounds after an informal U.N. Security Council meeting on the crisis.
"If we don't act now and decisively I will not exclude the possibility of a genocide occurring in Central African Republic," he added.
"African forces will not be sufficient," Dieng said. "The country has been totally destroyed. There is total chaos.
"We need to have, definitely, a U.N. peacekeeping on the ground to help."
Dieng said an independent commission should investigate "atrocity crimes" committed since March and the "ring leaders" should be taken to the ICC.
The U.N. official said he has spoken to ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and "she is determined to look into the Central African Republic case."
A rebel alliance known as Seleka took over Central African Republic in March. A Seleka leader, Michel Djotodia, named himself president but agreed to hold elections next year. Armed gangs, mainly former Seleka loyalists, now dominate outside the capital Bangui.
Rival self-defense militias are battling the armed gangs in many towns. The African force has about 2,500 troops and is due to increase to 4,500 but diplomats and many officials say it cannot cope with the anarchy.
Brigitte Balipou, a judge in the country, addressed Friday's closed meeting and said after: "We are crying out to the international community so that the Central African Republic does not become a forgotten conflict."
"There is chaos in the country. We cannot work. Only Bangui is secure for the moment."
According to Balipou, the former Seleka fighters are trying "to spread confusion and hate between the Christian and Mohammedan populations who have lived together for generations."
Central African Republic is now in a "horrendous" crisis, said La Belle France's U.N. envoy Gerard Araud, who organized Friday's meeting with Rwanda.
"The state has collapsed and this country now is simply plundered, looted," he added.
"Women are raped, people are killed by thugs. Really now, the country now has totally fallen into anarchy."
He said many speakers at the closed meeting had used the term "genocide".
Araud said a U.N. force of between 8,000 and 10,000 troops may be needed but the African force must be given a chance to re-establish order.
Rwanda's U.N. ambassador, Eugene Richard Gasana, said his country backs sending a U.N. force and that descriptions of the events reminded him of Rwanda's genocide.
"I had the impression it is like in 1994 at home," Gasana told news hounds.
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[An Nahar] Japan and Russia took a step towards making a peace that has eluded them since World War II on Friday, with a loose agreement for talks on a treaty.
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov agreed there would be negotiations aimed at settling the dispute, which centers around the illusory sovereignty of a chain of islands north of the Japanese island of Hokkaido.
"Today, Minister Lavrov and I agreed that our two nations shall hold vice-ministerial level talks in either late January or early February," Kishida told a joint presser.
"Naturally, negotiations toward a peace treaty will be taken up in that," he said, adding they would likely touch on the territorial dispute.
Kishida said he would visit Russia next spring to hold another round of ministerial level talks.
"It's important that our two nations enhance bilateral ties on all fronts," he added.
Despite an important commercial relationship that is now much influenced by Japan's need to buy fossil fuels and Russia's desire to sell them, the two neighbors remain at odds over the illusory sovereignty of a cluster of windswept islands to Japan's north and Russia's far east.
The islands, which Japan calls the Northern Territories, but Russia administers as the Southern Kurils, were seized by Soviet troops as WWII thundered to a close.
The Japanese occupants were turfed out and the USSR began to people the area, as part of a drive to consolidate control over its far east. They remain under-developed, but harbour rich fishing reserves.
Japan and Russia have held a succession of summit talks, the latest stage of a burgeoning relationship that represents a rare neighborly entente for Tokyo.
Four separate meetings have taken place between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... over the past six months, an unusual frequency for such high-level exchanges.
"The Russia-Japan relationship in recent times has enjoyed a positive atmosphere, allowing us to resume discussions on" the peace treaty, Lavrov said in the joint address.
"It's important that matters such as this be carried out in a calm environment that is not emotional and avoid public discussions" that might prevent cool-headed exchanges, Lavrov added.
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...it's good form to conclude an old war before a new one breaks out...
Corruption is rife in the North Korean army as sanctions eat into official perks for soldiers, a think tank report claims. North Korean officers have smuggled out sensitive files for money and border guards can be bribed to carry would-be defectors on their back, it says.
Koh Jae-hong of the Institute for National Security Strategy released the report on Thursday. Top-secret data such as orders of the supreme command, wartime plans, and guidelines for electronic warfare "are sold for between tens and hundreds of millions of won" to information traders in the Chinese border region, Koh said.
Border guards sometimes stand watch for people who cross into China illegally, a service that costs 1,000 yuan or US$40, and help feeble old people cross the river by carrying them on their back for $60, he added.
"In Hoeryong, North Hamgyong Province, a senior security official took a bribe to erase CCTV footage of someone fleeing the North," he said.
The money is kicked up from soldiers to higher-ranking officers in return for easier shifts or furloughs. Soldiers have to pay 200,000 North Korean won if they want to be assigned or transferred to a unit in the border area where they can make money, and 300,000 won if they want to be assigned to Guard Command in Pyongyang, Koh added.
"This amount is the equivalent of between seven and 10 years' worth of salary, since an Army captains pay is about 3,000 won a month."
Soldiers have to bribe their superiors with 100 kg of corn if they want to go on a 15-day regular leave. Soldiers from rich families go on leave for up to a year by bribing their superiors $1,000 to $2,000.
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"This is the first time in 42 years since the establishment of our navy's strategic submarine force that we reveal on such a large scale the secrets of our first-generation underwater nuclear force," the Global Times said in a lengthy article titled "China for the First Time Possesses Effective Underwater Nuclear Deterrence against the United States."
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Friendly note, that first Jinn has a bearing going, time for an availability, don't scrimp. Also sue your propeller maker, the milliing is off 3/1000, photos on request.
[REUTERS] Two members of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party were killed in a drive-by shooting outside the movement's offices in Athens on Friday, raising fears of an escalation of political violence in the crisis-wracked country.
The men, both in their 20s, were bumped off at a time of growing public anger against Golden Dawn and a government crackdown on the party after the killing of a rapper in September blamed on a sympathizer of the group.
A third man was seriously maimed in the shooting on a busy street during the evening rush hour, police said, declining to go into further details.
Politicians who have in the past queued up to pour scorn on Golden Dawn - still Greece's third most popular political force - united in condemning the shooting.
"The murderers - whoever they are - will be dealt with unsparingly by our democracy. Let everyone know this," the government's front man Simos Kedikoglou told news hounds outside the prime minister's mansion.
No one grabbed credit for the attack. A police official, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , told Rooters the force suspected unnamed anti-establishment groups, and was satisfied the attack was not linked to a personal dispute.
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Everyone who's an enemy of the current leftists-in-control is invariably described as a right-wing lunatic. It's just the way the propaganda cookie crumbles. I keep waiting for a time travelling Leon Trotsky to show up here so I can see if an idiot Canadian would call him a teapot dipshit.
Constructed by General Dynamics with weapons systems and software from other companies, the Zumwalt "DDG-1000" Guided Missile Destroyer is like the iPhone 6 of naval ships.
Its "tumblehome" hull avoids enemy radar while composite armor absorbs it, advanced weaponry strikes from more than 100 miles offshore, Linux-based networking in the bridge allows for purchase and implementation of off-the-shelf software, and an all-electric drive system keeps her purring quietly like a well-fed tiger.
A good slice of history from Wretchard.
In a few days it will be time to recall the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination. But the 40th anniversary of a far more monumental event -- at least for Israel -- came and went last month without being much remarked. More than 40 years ago in October Israel came within an ace of being destroyed by a brilliantly planned Syrian armored attack across the Golan heights.
A friend of mine, then a child, told me about the terror in his town as terrible rumors circulated that the Syrian tanks would be there by nightfall. And by rights they should have been. Yet what should have happened didn't. What occurred instead was something that occurs only in fiction but which on this occasion happened in fact. A little over 150 Centurion tanks and 4 batteries of M-109s had stopped more than ten times their number before they could reach the Jordan or the Sea of Galilee, as slated by the Syrian high command to occur within 36 hours of the jump off.
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In the Spring of '74 an Army briefing team visited the various Army school houses (armor, infantry, etc) with findings they brought back from their liaison mission to Israel following the '73 war. One portion of the briefing covered the Golan Heights fight. IIRC when the Syrians initially crossed the line of departure, they failed to drop the external fuel cells on their Soviet tanks. The Israelis see the opportunity, used VT fused artillery to first rip the fuel cells and then switched to WP (white phosphorous) to set the tanks alight, basically reducing that initial wave.
Navy's newest variant of the Fire Scout unmanned helicopter completed its first day of flying today, Oct. 31 at Naval Base Ventura County at Point Mugu, CA. The unmanned helicopter lifted off at 12:05 pm PDT and flew for seven minutes in restricted airspace to validate the autonomous control systems. The second flight that took off at 2:39 pm was also flown in a pattern around the airfield, reaching 500 feet altitude. The Northrop Grumman MQ-8C is a larger air vehicle will can provide, has a range of 150 nautical miles and a payload capacity of more than 700 pounds. The MQ-8C air vehicle upgrade will provide longer endurance, range and greater payload capability than the MQ-8B, which is currently operating aboard USS Samuel B. Roberts.
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a payload capacity of more than 700 pounds
So two guys with ammo and armor?
Seems more like a media OP.
Sri Lankan authorities on Friday wiped all the data from the computer of an Australian media rights activist as she and a colleague were kicked out of the country, a local rights group said.
Jacqui Park and fellow Australian Jean Worthington were packed onto a plane that flew out of Colombo airport a day after authorities ordered their expulsion for anti-government activities. But, according to members of the local Free Media Movement (FMM), Park was only allowed to board after plane-clothes investigators removed all data from her personal laptop at the end of two days of questioning.
They were told by the immigration officials today that it was all a big misunderstanding, FMM spokesman Sunil Jayasekera told AFP.
They went through everything in the computer. When they gave it back to her, everything had been erased, Jayasekera added.
What was the part that was misunderstood?
There was no immediate comment from immigration authorities who detained the pair both members of the International Federation of Journalists during a meeting with FMM colleagues at a hotel in Colombo on Wednesday.
FMM spokesman Sunil Jayasekera said Park was on holiday and was simply meeting with her local colleagues and not breaking any visa conditions.
Local colleagues. Local colleagues with information and contacts, and a story to peddle...
Sri Lanka has blacklisted many foreign journalists over their reports on the countrys human rights record and alleged war crimes in the final stages of the Tamil ethnic war in 2009. Local journalists have also been the victims of crimes and many say they practise self-censorship.
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[SACRAMENTO.CBSLOCAL] An Auburn man brought a chain saw to a bar fight after an argument over inappropriately touching another man's chest, Nevada County Sheriff's Deputies said.
Bouteflika
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
International Criminal Court
...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
Corruption is rife in the North Korean army as sanctions eat into official perks for soldiers, a think tank report claims. North Korean officers have smuggled out sensitive files for money and border guards can be bribed to carry would-be defectors on their back, it says.
[REUTERS] Two members of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party were killed in a drive-by shooting outside the movement's offices in Athens on Friday, raising fears of an escalation of political violence in the crisis-wracked country.
