[Washington Post] Police say a New Mexico man pretending to be police officer pulled over a real Albuquerque Police Department detective and is facing charges.
KOB-TV reports (http://bit.ly/qRna9O ) that Tyree Appleberry was given the citation Wednesday on charges of impersonating a police officer then locked away for an outstanding warrant.
According to police, the 42-year-old turned on his strobe lights on his white Chevy Tahoe in an attempt to stop a driver, who turned out to be an undercover officer.
But Appleberry said he was not impersonating an officer and was instead asking the driver why he was in the parking lot next to an auto auction yard where his friend works.
Authorities say Appleberry had a warrant out for his arrest for failing to appear in court for a reckless driving charge.
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[Washington Post] Police say a New Mexico man pretending to be police officer pulled over a real Albuquerque Police Department detective and is facing charges.
KOB-TV reports (http://bit.ly/qRna9O ) that Tyree Appleberry was given the citation Wednesday on charges of impersonating a police officer then locked away for an outstanding warrant.
According to police, the 42-year-old turned on his strobe lights on his white Chevy Tahoe in an attempt to stop a driver, who turned out to be an undercover officer.
But Appleberry said he was not impersonating an officer and was instead asking the driver why he was in the parking lot next to an auto auction yard where his friend works.
Authorities say Appleberry had a warrant out for his arrest for failing to appear in court for a reckless driving charge.
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I'm sorry, sir. Our weapons are useless against them.
All right, chief. Manolo, send in...the mimes.
Are you sure you want to do this sir?
Dammit! We have no choice!
CARACAS, Venezuela -- A part of Venezuela's capital is giving dangerous drivers the silent treatment, sending mimes into the streets to do what police alone have not: tame the lawless traffic. Try this in Boston and it would become the Dead Mime Capital of the world... One thing to remember when shooting mimes: Always use a silencer. Or, you could just use your index finger...
About 120 mimes dressed in clown-like outfits and white gloves took to the streets of the Sucre district this past week, wagging their fingers at traffic violators and at pedestrians who streaked across busy avenues rather than waiting at crosswalks. Okay, mimes! Hit the streets!
.....! "Eduardo! That mime just waggled his finger at me!"
"Hand me my gun! The one with the silencer, dammit!"
They found plenty to keep them busy in a city where motorcycle riders roar down sidewalks, buses drop passengers in the middle of busy streets and drivers treat red lights and speed limits as suggestions rather than orders. Seen it...done it.
"Most people are collaborating, but bad habits are usually hard to break and some drivers just don't change their ways," said Neidy Suarez, an 18-year-old mime wearing fluorescent yellow overalls and a bright red ribbon wrapped around her pigtails. Suarez frowned, thrust her hands forward in a "stop" motion and then pointed to a red light as a motorcyclist raced toward a crosswalk filled with pedestrians. What's mime is mime, what's yours we'll pantomime...
"Some people get angry when we reprimand them," Suarez said. Some drivers have shouted insults after a silent rebuke. Pretty soon...THUMP...This is car 12! Mime down! Mime down!
Take it easy, mime. Helps on the way.
...!...!...!.......!..........................................
It's too late, sarge. He's gone.
....!
Oh, you bastard! No wonder everybody hates you people! If a mime falls in the woods does anybody care?
"But most people react agreeably and some have offered compliments," Suarez said, raising her voice from time to time so she would be heard amid the honking horns, ambulance sirens, rumbling bus engines and music throbbing from car stereos. Raising her voice? Ha!
You're a disgrace to the profession, lady. Turn in your invisible box and striped shirt and get out of my sight! You'll never work in this town again!
Mayor Carlos Ocariz of Sucre, in the eastern part of Caracas, turned to the mimes to encourage civility among reckless drivers and careless pedestrians. "Si. We're over-populated with mimes. We gotta thin the herd!"
He is following the example of Antanas Mockus, a former mayor of Bogota, Colombia, who combined mimes and stricter police enforcement in a program that was widely seen as a success. Tonight on "Mimes and Cops"... "The Silent Landmines of Bogota"...
Caracas' streets, though, may be even more chaotic than those of Colombia's capital. Drivers who miss a highway exit often simply put their cars in reverse and return through oncoming traffic. Seen it...
Motorbike riders charge the wrong way up one-way streets and honk pedestrians aside as they roar onto sidewalks, sometimes with small children tucked precariously between an adult passenger and driver. Seen it...
Alex Ojeda, president of the Jose Angel Lamas Foundation, a cultural organization that employed professional actors to train the mimes, said he is confident the mimes will help, although he conceded that changing the behaviour of motorists will be a long-term task. Generations of attempts to enforce traffic laws have largely failed."Many times, the mimes can achieve what traffic police cannot achieve using warning and sanctions in their efforts to maintain control," he said. "Mimes, on the contrary, often achieve the same objective by employing artistic and peaceful actions." So let's embarrass the cops by showing the citizenry that even mimes are better at law enforcement than they are.
At a ceremony for newly trained mimes, Ocariz vowed to keep up the effort "until the streets of Sucre are full of creativity and education." ...or splattered, dead mimes.
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based on police reports that a group of Amish men was forcing its way into the homes of other members of the Amish community and, in some cases, forcibly cutting the hair and beards of women and men.
"Mixing bleach and ammonia is extremely dangerous, since toxic vapors will be produced. The primary toxic chemical formed by the reaction is chloramine vapor, with a potential for hydrazine formation."
[Dawn] Another seven people including five women died of dengue fever in different hospitals on Saturday, raising the corpse count to 205 in the city.
Dengue cases are on the rise and patients with high fever flocked to hospitals in the provincial metropolis.
Today, 60-year-old Mukhtaran Bibi of Baghbanpura, Mrs Iqbal (61) of Temple Road and Arooj of Dharampura lost their battle against dengue at Services Hospital while under treatment Rabia (24) of Kot Khawaja Saeed, Aliza (7) and Saeed of Bahawalpur died at Mayo Hospital.
The identity of the seventh patient who perished at a private hospital could not be ascertained.
Health department figures revealed that during the last 24 hours, 312 new dengue cases were reported in Punjab, raising the number to 14,978 while 498 new cases were reported in Lahore, raising the total to 13,457. Some 1,862 patients are under treatment in various hospitals in Punjab while over 600 have already been cured.
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These are the same people who would have been wearing gray flannel suits and horn-rimmed glasses in 1953: conformity is the highest form of... ummm... well, it's not originality, is it?
invaded Washington Square Park today, vowing to fan the flames of dissent and putting them toe-to-toe with cops ready to enforce a curfew.
The reporter is selling it awfully hard, considering he's working for one of those greedy corporations.
The estimated 3,000 people flooded the iconic park compared themselves to the "Arab Spring" demonstrations that have toppled totalitarian governments in the Middle East.
Does that make them the spontaneous gang of woman-molesters or the organized ranks of hard-eyed Islamists?
One speaker urged the crowd -- that hooted and waved hands instead of clapping -- to squat in empty or abandoned buildings and declared, "they have theird debts and we have our revolution."
Good luck with that, guys. Really.
An estimated 3,000 people packed Washington Square Park during an Occupy Wall Street protest this afternoon.
Cops kept a close eye on the protest but there were no reports of violence or arrests. Police fenced off grassy areas in the park, and erected 10-foot high chain link fences around public bathrooms before the march from Zuccotti Park to Washington Square began.
Group front man Patrick Bruner said there were no plans to force a confrontation with police that appear determined to enforce a curfew and prevent protesters from camping out there as they have done for weeks at Zuccotti Park.
But another organizer, Justine Tunney, 26, was more blunt. "We plan to stay in Washington Square Park and form a second permanent occupation," she said.
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You want a piece of the action on 'The Street' you little 6o's throw-back wingnuts, you'd better forget about hanging around in parks and streetcorners and get a job! LOSERS!
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Washington Square is about 3 miles north of Wall St. and part of NYU campus. It was always full of druggies, panhandlers and hustlers when I lived near there (1st job out of college).
This is a great place to ensure a crowd of unemployables and naive college kids.
Al
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P.S. NYU is a private university. When I lived near there, it was infamous for its very high tuition coupled with its low entrance requirements (i.e. rich, spoiled, lazy college students).
Al
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Back in the days of the filthy, stinking Hippies, who as a matter of principles refused to bathe, there was an old guy who proposed a novel invention: a "poo gun".
Basically, a waterproof, paper container that could hold several odoriferous "smokers", which could then be launched out an open car window at the targeted low life.
With her long hair flowing in the wind, a brunette beauty stares deeply into her blond lover's ice-blue eyes. They lock lips in a passionate, lingering kiss. It's a saccharine scene straight out of The Young and the Restless -- except it's actually from Gümüs (Noor in Arabic), a Turkish television melodrama.
The show, which originally aired in Turkey from 2005 to 2007, follows heroine Noor, a sultry, independent woman, and her romance with the hunky Mohannad.
The characters are Mohammedan, but hardly observant. They drink, party and have premarital sex.
Locally, the show received a lukewarm reception, but it became wildly popular in the Arab world -- and it's raising Turkey's profile in the Middle East.
MBC, a pan-Arab network, began broadcasting Noor in early 2008. The final episode in August 2008 attracted 85 million Arab viewers, according to Variety magazine.
The show remains popular today, most recently airing in the Balkans. It is also getting a second wind with reruns and online streaming.
To Canadians, Noor may be standard soap opera fare, but the comparatively decadent lifestyle it shows appeals to Middle Eastern viewers.
Diana Shuman started watching Noor and other Turkish soaps in 2008. The 27-year-old Paleostinian says her mother and aunts "love the shows."
"They bring to mind the ideals of what they would like to have in their lives, and (it) gives them something interesting and dramatic to look forward to each day," she said in an email.
Viewers are attracted to Noor's Turkey -- a modern, secular nation with an Islamic culture and history, says Murat Yasar, a specialist in Near and Middle Eastern history at the University of Toronto. "What they see is a Mohammedan population, Mohammedan people living a good life," he said. "They can associate themselves with that kind of life."
The show's appeal is not only attracting waves of Arab tourism to Turkey, it's also affecting social dynamics in more conservative Arab countries. Some Saudi holy mans have condemned Noor for its liberal views on sex and other taboos. "Arab women watching the show, they see men treating women with respect . . . and women just following their hearts and love affairs," Yasar said.
Cultural exports such as Noor will only increase Turkey's clout on the world stage, says Daryl Copeland, a former Canadian diplomat and international relations expert. More than entertainment, he adds, they are a source of "soft power" that will help Turkey spread its influence. "They might be brought over to your side by virtue of the appeal of your cultural products," he said.
With her long hair flowing in the wind, a brunette beauty stares deeply into her blond lovers ice-blue eyes. They lock lips in a passionate, lingering kiss. Its a saccharine scene straight out of The Young and the Restless except its actually from Gümüs (Noor in Arabic), a Turkish television melodrama.
The show, which originally aired in Turkey from 2005 to 2007, follows heroine Noor, a sultry, independent woman, and her romance with the hunky Mohannad.
The characters are Muslim, but hardly observant. They drink, party and have premarital sex.
Locally, the show received a lukewarm reception, but it became wildly popular in the Arab world and its raising Turkeys profile in the Middle East.
MBC, a pan-Arab network, began broadcasting Noor in early 2008. The final episode in August 2008 attracted 85 million Arab viewers, according to Variety magazine.
The show remains popular today, most recently airing in the Balkans. It is also getting a second wind with reruns and online streaming.
To Canadians, Noor may be standard soap opera fare, but the comparatively decadent lifestyle it shows appeals to Middle Eastern viewers.
Diana Shuman started watching Noor and other Turkish soaps in 2008. The 27-year-old Palestinian says her mother and aunts love the shows.
They bring to mind the ideals of what they would like to have in their lives, and (it) gives them something interesting and dramatic to look forward to each day, she said in an email.
Viewers are attracted to Noors Turkey a modern, secular nation with an Islamic culture and history, says Murat Yasar, a specialist in Near and Middle Eastern history at the University of Toronto. What they see is a Muslim population, Muslim people living a good life, he said. They can associate themselves with that kind of life.
The shows appeal is not only attracting waves of Arab tourism to Turkey, its also affecting social dynamics in more conservative Arab countries. Some Saudi clerics have condemned Noor for its liberal views on sex and other taboos. Arab women watching the show, they see men treating women with respect . . . and women just following their hearts and love affairs, Yasar said.
Cultural exports such as Noor will only increase Turkeys clout on the world stage, says Daryl Copeland, a former Canadian diplomat and international relations expert. More than entertainment, he adds, they are a source of soft power that will help Turkey spread its influence. They might be brought over to your side by virtue of the appeal of your cultural products, he said.
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Gümüs -- a zionist plot against Moslem Morality
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"Moslem Morality"
DoesnotcomputeDoesnotcomputeDoesnotcompute
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Stuff like this really matters, especially in inhibited, male-centric countries. Once women, especially, realize what they *could* have, they are far less willing to live the life of abused farm animals.
The National Air and Space Museum was shut down on Saturday afternoon after protesters tried to enter the building and clashed with guards, said a museum spokeswoman. One person was arrested during the disturbance at the Smithsonian museum involving between 150 and 200 protesters and six guards, the spokeswoman said.
"There was a lot of shoving going on," she added, saying one of the guards was surrounded and used pepper spray before the demonstrators were moved outside.
The altercation broke out in a vestibule between two glass doors at the museum entrance when guards told the protesters they could not enter with signs.
Protest organizers said the attempt to enter the museum on the National Mall was part of the Occupy D.C. antiwar demonstrations that began on Thursday on the 10th anniversary of the start of the Afghanistan war.
"Along with the Occupy Wall Street movement, it represents an upswell of people taking to the street around the country to demand social and economic justice as well as an end to the immoral wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is outrageous that the security guard of a major museum in America pepper sprayed Americans as they entered the museum. The drones housed in this museum and the pepper spraying of Americans at the door are clear evidence of repression in America," organizers said in an e-mail.
The museum was shut down at 3:15 p.m. The spokeswoman said it would reopen on Sunday.
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well they could protest the guy who orders the drones to be used
or
protest the museum that shows what a drone is.
and they went for the museum (probably in the worlds most popular 50 museums)
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The Air and Space Museum is basically a shrine to American inspiration and perspiration, like this. Maybe the protesters should just walk around it and see if some of either rubs off on them.
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Typical -- surround and threaten a guard, then complain when he defends himself.
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I've had it with the left. Let's get the Un-Civil war started.
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Mmm, lawfare again, it's so unfair for the bad turbans to be targeted without due process. Me, I don´t really give a flying automated pheuck, whether they are US, British, German or whatever living abroad, they need killing. Maybe a couple loitering over Manchester, Luton, Birmingham would be good too.
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Ditto SEAPOWER + LANDPOWER, + espec also the TEAMSTERS + RAIL + LONGSHOREMEN + MARINER, ETC. UNIONS.
AFAIK the typical UAW, etal. contracts cover DRONE RE-TRAINING + ASTRONOMY/SPACE SYS COURSES at the local Tech, Community Colleges.
FYI even the ANTI-US-NATO-IGA IRAQI RESISTANCE + AFPAK TALIBAN are repor trying to dev their own.
That sound you're NOT hearing is Jimbo Hoffa, Jr. NOT demanding to know what new Markets + Union access the Bammer + GWOT + OWG-NWO + "Globalism", etc. hath broughteth.
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] Police say a New Mexico man pretending to be police officer pulled over a real Albuquerque Police Department detective and is facing charges.
Another seven people including five women died of dengue fever in different hospitals on Saturday, raising the 
Thousands of anti-greed protesters
The National Air and Space Museum was shut down on Saturday afternoon after protesters tried to enter the building and clashed with guards, said a museum spokeswoman. One person was arrested during the disturbance at the Smithsonian museum involving between 150 and 200 protesters and six guards, the spokeswoman said.
