LOS ANGELES -- A 31-year-old man accused of robbing a hotel clerk at gunpoint was captured by two martial arts experts visiting from Oregon.
It happened Wednesday at a hotel in the 300 block of N. Vermont Avenue.
Surveillance video shows the suspect, identified as Luis Rosales, wandering around the hotel lobby. mHe then walks up to the front desk and pulls out a gun, demanding money. "All right, gimme the dough!"
The clerk, fearing he was going to be shot, opened the register and gave the suspect money, according to police.
During the robbery, an elevator door opened, and two hotel guests who happened to be martial arts experts in town for a martial arts tournament heard the clerk's cry for help and immediately took action. "Dough THIS!"
The pair grabbed the suspect who was holding a gun in his right hand.
During the tussle with the suspect, the Good Samaritans repeatedly asked him to drop the gun and stop struggling, police say. "Give it up, beauzeau! You're already for the jug." *WHAP*
The pair was finally able to wrestle the gun from the suspect What did that take, three seconds?
and took him to the ground with a leg sweep That was another one second, plus the fall itself...
and then held him on the ground until officers arrived. "Owwww! My kidney! You got your knee in my kidney!"
"If you don't move it doesn't hurt as bad. So don't move!"
"Owwwwww!"
Rosales, a resident of Los Angeles, was taken into custody without further incident. "It's a fair cop; you got me." "Make him remove his knee from my kidney!"
A loaded 9mm handgun and the money taken from the cash register were found inside Rosales' backpack, police say.
Rosales was booked for armed robbery with a firearm. He is being held on $101,250 bail.
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I heard the story of two top expert martial artists walking and talking about business, when one of the more unlucky idiots tried to mug them.
Very quickly, he was disarmed and face down on the street, held in such a way that he *could not* move, and then the two decided to "fun" him. Their talk to each other was so terrifying to him that when they let him up, he immediately tore off all of his own clothes then took off running. The conditions they gave for his escape.
No idea what they said to each other that was so motivational.
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There is a video of a pimp beating his biach in the street in front of a martial arts studio. The instructor gets itchy and gives him a Y-block, thus ending the encounter altogether. His friend helps him across the street, the pimp talking sh*t all the while and continually passing out. Film magic.
[Bangla Daily Star] An asteroid bigger than an aircraft carrier will dart between the Earth and moon on Tuesday -- the closest encounter by such a huge rock in 35 years.
But scientists say not to worry. It won't hit.
"We're extremely confident, 100 percent confident, that this is not a threat," said the manager of Nasa's Near Earth Object Program, Don Yeomans. "But it is an opportunity."
The asteroid named 2005 YU55 is being watched by ground antennas as it approaches from the direction of the sun. The last time it came within so-called shouting distance was 200 years ago.
Closest approach will occur at 6:28pm EST Tuesday when the asteroid passes within 202,000 miles of Earth. That's closer than the roughly 240,000 miles between the Earth and the moon.
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"We're extremely confident, 100 percent confident, that this is not a threat," said the manager of Nasa's Near Earth Object Program.
They're idiots. They couldn't even track the falling footprint of a giant satellite that's been tracked for the last decade. It landed in Canada, or Asia, or the Pacific or maybe it missed urth...
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VIDEO INTERVIEW > Richard C. Hoagland on Revolut Radio claims YU55 may come as close as 50-55,000 miles to Eart, + could potentially impact the Moon on 11/9th.
Hopefully, nothing will happen - I would, however, like to observe compare the event agz my own personal decades-old dream/vision where LARGE OR MASSIVE MOON EXPLOSIONS ARE VISUALLY SEEN ON GUAM/EARTH [2030 = Comet APOPHIS, OWG-NWO + Space Defense FUBAR?].
Our OWG-NWO = Pre/proto-SPACE GOVT, ORDER that no American = Amerikan has yet formally voted for as of 11/2011 has 19-25 years [2029 - 2036]to prevent the above.
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PLATOON'S "SGT ELIAS" [paraph] = THE ENEMY IS COMING ... SET YOURSELVES UP HERE, HERE, + HERE ALONG THIS LINE - IFF ANY OF THEM GET THROUGH, YOU'RE ALL TRULY F ****** ED!
The US-Soviet Blocs had their Cold War games of Managed/Escalatory Response - so does GOD.
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Mecca, Chicago, Brussel, there's all sort of spots this thing could hit and make the world a better place. The problem, FrankG, is the collateral lives lost. Given the "unluckiest place on earth" list though I'd go with this asteroid hitting Haiti if anywhere. Japan has Godzilla to defend against asteroids so it wouldn't go there.
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WAFF > US ARMY ALASKA MILITARY POLICE OFFICER PUT IN POLICE CUSTODY AFTER WARNING MOTHER OF IMMINENT THREAT NOVEMBER/2011.
ARTIC =
> US NSA engaged in "espionage" agz USDOD, looking for alleged "whistleblowers"???
> MP Servicemember told mom to prepare for the "end of the world".
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IIRC WORLD NEWS > COULD ASTEROID 2005 YU55 DESTROY THE MOON?
ARTIC > PERT = argued that for Earth to be showered by dangerous moon chunks, any impactor would have to be near or equal to the size of the Moon itself.
OTOH ME > 1990's NET = would had liked for the Space Perts to analyze + evaluate any risk to Earth stemming from the breakup + impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 agz the surface of Planet Jupiter, i.e. iff SL-9's "Earth-Sized" impacts could had forced large or massive chunks of Jupiter's surface into the planet's high orbit + ultimately out into deep space, espec towards Earth???
OR DOES THE FED + NASA NEED THE RUSSIAN SPACE BOYZ TO DO IT [again]???
versus
* SAME > ACTIVE SUNSPOTS COULD MEAN MORE AURORA BOREALIS SHOWS TO COME.
Wavy-gravy Days, Nights of the Sun.
IMO Artic also read, Madonna Fan from Guam to see more Ghosts = Taotamonas talking, walking, or flying, etc. around Agana + Island.
[1990's US GOVT-WARNED "YELLOW-RED" ORGANIZATION here].
* IIRC SAME > IFF 2012 DOESN'T DESTROY THE WORLD, THERE'S 2023 + 2026.
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They could start with the Arch-Druid - he hasn't been Christian in decades (if he ever was).
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Then Prince Charles (I don't remember his Islamic name... perhapse Al-Dunce..). Isn't he in line to become the 'defender of the faith' or something?
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Thought they were skipping the Puppet-prince for one of his sons. God Forbid the idiot becomes King and tries to change things by edict of some sort. May end up being the end of the Kings of England.
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I thought the title had been reworked to "defender of the faiths". Not quite sure how that works...
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That will get him some death threats from the religion of peace
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The final round of elections for president of Guatemala takes place today as polls open nationwide today, according to Guatemalan news reports.
The previous election in September ended with General Otto Perez Molina gaining 36 percent of the vote, while his closest rival, populist industrialist Manuel Baldizon gathered 23.4 percent of the vote.
Today's run off election is not expected to be close as General Perez Molina is expected to win handily.
Today's election also ends the reign of the center-left coalition Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza (UNE) represented by outgoing president Alvaro Collom.
The UNE was not able to present a candidate in the election because of the public antics of Collom's wife, Sandra Torres, who made a concious decision to run for president inasmuch as it is illegal for her to do so. She subsequently had attempted to get a divorce to sidestep the rule, but had been rebuffed by the Guatemalan supreme court.
General Perez Molina is considered to be a conservative and a hardliner in Guatemala's war on drugs, who has promised a mano dura or firm hand in dealing with the violence associated with drug trafficking.
Perez Molina is a former military intelligence operative who headed the Guatemalan Army intelligence agency during the turbulent years of the 1980s.
Los Zetas has made Guatemala their territory for transshipment of drug into Mexican and on to the US. The violence associated with the activities was so bad earlier this year, the now outgoing president Colom was forced to ask the Guatemalan legislature to declare a 30 day state of emergency in one department.
The only leftist candidate to run was an independent and literary fraud Rigoberta Menchu, who received less then three percent of the vote.
According to Siglo XXI news daily website, more than 16,000 polling stations opened at 0600 hrs nationwide. Today's vote is expected to be without much violence.
In Chinique, Quiche, more example, than 100 Policia Nacional Civil (PNC) operatives were deployed to the general area including the Zacualpa and Sacapulas neighborhoods.
The area boasted a 75 percent participation rate. Some 6,650 individuals are registered to vote.
A day of prayer for calm and serenity has been called by missionaries in the MarĂa Inmaculada and Santa Catalina de la Siena missions.
Amnesty International Americas division released a statement from its director, Susan Lee which criticized the sentencing of two Mexican military officers in the shooting of a family in 2007, according to Mexican press sources.
In a statement transcribed by APRO, the news agency for the leftist weekly Proceso, Lee said the Sinaloa case was the sole exception. She also said, falsely, that "the military justice system has consistently failed to provide justice to victims of abuse and to hold accountable those responsible."
The charge is false because last year the Secretaria de Defensa Nacional (SEDENA), the agency for the Mexican Army, convicted and sentenced a Mexican Army officer and three riflemen for murder in the shooting deaths of two civilians in a highway encounter in Nuevo Leon state. Read the Rantburg report on the Nuevo Leon shooting here
That case had been disposed of quickly when it was found in the military investigation that Captain Nunez lied to investigators about the circumstances of the shooting.
As other cases go, SEDENA claims the less than two percent of human rights cases -- totalling 89 cases since 2006, when human rights offices within SEDENA were established -- were found to be prosecutable because the rest, as many as 6,000 cases, were found to be based on false claims. SEDENA also said that the Comision Nacional de Derechas Humanos (CNDH), or National Human Rights Commision had endorsed the cases SEDENA found to be prosecutable
The report goes on to characterize the Mexican military justice system as opaque, which is another false charge in that the Mexican Army has recently opened up military trials to the public. The army does maintain a human rights office which does investigate human right abuses independently of the units in the field.
Lee also stated that, "It is time that the Mexican authorities comply with the decisions of the Court and the Supreme Court of Justice (the Nation) by moving investigations and prosecutions of human rights abuses committed by the armed forces to civilian authorities."
In fact this has already taken place. Last August, the Procuraduria General de Justicia Militar (PGJM) the office which monitors military prosecutions, declared its lack of competence in prosecuting two high profile rapes, enabling the cases' transfer to federal courts for further investigation. The move has been seen as the first of several to take place since last July 12th Mexican Supreme Court decision requiring human rights criminal cases putatively involving the military be prosecuted in civil courts. To read the Rantburg report on the PGJM decision and circumstances concerning the decision, click here
It is worth noting that those two rape cases are probably insoluble due to civilian courts' sheer incompetence.
Mexican military officials following weeks of publicly and fiercely criticizing the Supreme Court decision, have shown every sign of cooperating with the new regimen.
Indeed Secretaria de Marina (SEMAR) Admiral Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza, himself the bane of international as well as Mexican human rights and other leftist groups has stated publicly and on more than one occasion that his agency will abide by the court's decision.
Admiral Saynez Mendoza also said that Mexican Navy will not "tolerate violations of human rights (within the ranks) either by error or lack of professionalism."
Admiral Saynez Mendoza has also said that local human rights groups have long been in the thrall of organized crime, a charge which human rights groups have denied, but have also failed to disprove.
There is little doubt Admiral Saynez Mendoza's remarks mirrors the sentiment of the other armed services senior officials as well as Mexican President Felipe Calderon Hinjosa. Both President Calderon and Secretaria de Defensa Nactional (SEDENA) General Guillermo Galvan Galvan were present at the graduation ceremony at the Meixcan Heroica Escuela Naval Miltar Naval Academy in Veracruz last August when he made them.
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I am actually in favor of the idea itself. Banking in America has stopped having a "principled purpose" for the public, and is just a default financial institution. Were there another way for "direct deposit" and "automatic bill payment", banks would lose a huge chunk of their revenue.
However, despite the S&L crisis, S&Ls have maintained a "principled purpose" for their depositors. So efforts to improve their standing at the expense of banks should be lauded.
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In actuality Bank Of America with their debit card fee started it.
That is certainly going to be The Narrative (tm). But the upstream cause was a new law capping merchant fees on debt card transactions. Can you say "Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act"?
It may be a surprising economic principle to some, but stuff has to be paid for, one way or another.
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The Free Lunch party is a multipartisan affair. Some OWS'ers & Democrats belong, but not all. Also Republicans, but not all. Also several here on the 'Burg.
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To heck with the $5 debit card fee. I thought cashing out of BofA would be a damned good idea when I heard about this.
BofA owns Merrill Lynch, which will not be on the winning side of the bet in all $75T worth of derivatives exposure. Big T, Trillion, as in 5x the national debt. Small losses will still be huge.
Last month, BofA moved $53T of those bets from Merrill Lynch (which is not insured by the FDIC), over to BofA proper (the consumer banking side, which is insured by the FDIC). The FDIC, like the Federal Reserve, is an independent agency of the federal government. I.e., ultimately propped up by us, the taxpayers.
So IIUC, closing accounts with BofA is, in fact, the public-spirited thing to do, since the bill taxpayers get stuck will be that much less when (when, not if) BofA derivatives go bust.
Greece's prime minister George Papandreou will resign today, Pasok party sources have told Sky News. A possible replacement for Mr Papandreou is currently being discussed, the sources have also indicated.
The development comes after the country's opposition leader insisted the PM must go to save the economy.
Antonis Samaras said he was willing to help in the formation of a coalition government - but not until Mr Papandreou had stepped down.
Despite winning a confidence vote in parliament, Mr Papandreou has struggled to form a temporary coalition government to back the controversial EU bailout package. The prime minister had gone into talks with president Karolos Papoulias on how to construct an administration to negotiate the deal to write down Greek debt and release billions in emergency aid.
But sources within Pasok - the socialist party that Mr Papandreou heads - have told Sky News there are only two possible scenarios. The first involves Mr Papandreou stepping down and being replaced by a compromise candidate who is acceptable to both the left and right of the political spectrum.
The second scenario would see Mr Papandreou stepping down and being replaced by someone within Pasok itself - potentially Evangelos Venizelos, the current finance minister, who has been part of the bailout negotiations.
An emergency cabinet meeting will be held this afternoon, when these issues will be discussed.
The country is under pressure from the eurozone's power brokers to implement the bailout package agreed in Brussels on October 27. If the bailout stalls in the Greek parliament, that would hamper the release of money Greece needs to pay salaries, pensions and international creditors.
After the prime minister won a confidence vote in the early hours of Saturday morning, European finance ministers, who meet next week, will want to see progress in Athens.
However the opposition New Democracy party is angry Mr Papandreou decided to tough out his tenure, rather than call snap elections. Its leader, Mr Samaras, said the prime minister was "dangerous" for Greece.
But he and other opposition leaders have already said they would work to implement the bailout deal, so the pressure to join a consensus government is immense.
Greece's shadow finance minister Notis Mitatarakis told Sky News he believes the leader of the country's new interim government did not have to be a politician.
"We need elections because we need a stable government to be able to negotiate the new loan agreement," he said. "However, we realise the need for an interim government in order to conclude the loan agreement [and] the restructuring of the Greek debt.
"That would need a person that is mutually accepted, not necessarily a politician - rather, not a politician - to run an interim government and then go to elections."
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Yeah, that'll fix all their problems.
Especially their spending-money-they-ain't-got problem.
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I expect yet another puppet of central banks to take his place.
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It'd never occur to the Greeks to put a businessperson in charge, would it...
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"It'd never occur to the Greeks to put a businessperson in charge, would it..."
Apparently we can't either, Steve. :-(
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Papademos was a Fed economist, Governor of the Central Bank of Greece, and Vice President of the European Central Bank from 2002 to 2010.
The positions he held and when he held them mean he probably helped Greece weasel its way into the Euro. It will be interesting to see if he now helps Greece weasel out, or screws his countrymen in favor of his central banker friends. It is also possible to do both. What is not possible is to do much good for anyone.
Like being promoted to captain of the Titanic 15 minutes after hitting the iceberg. Poor bastard.
[Dawn] Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou survived a vote of confidence in parliament on Saturday, avoiding snap elections that would have torpedoed Greece's debt bailout deal and inflamed the euro zone's economic crisis.
But the nation remained mired in political, economic and social turmoil and Papandreou signalled he would stand down, calling for a new coalition to ram the 130-billion-euro bailout deal through parliament and avoid the nation going bankrupt.
Papandreou's socialist government won with 153 votes in the 300 member parliament, and a rebellion by some dissidents in his PASOK party failed to materialise after he indicated that his term as prime minister was close to an end.
"The last thing I care about is my post. I don't care even if I am not re-elected. The time has come to make a new effort...I never thought of politics as a profession," he told parliament before the vote.
Papandreou said a coalition government should secure the approval of the EU/IMF bailout deal, the nation's last financial lifeline, which is also the euro zone's central plank to prevent economic crisis devastating the bloc's bigger economies.
The leaders of La Belle France and Germany told Papandreou this week that Greece would not get a cent more of aid if Greece failed to approve the bailout, meaning that the state would run out of money in December.
Papandreou told parliament that he would go to the Greek president on Saturday to discuss formation of a broader-based government that would secure the bailout, adding that he was willing to discuss who would head a new administration.
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[Dawn] Tens of thousands of opposition activists have demonstrated in central Rome for Premier Silvio Berlusconi's ...current Italian prime minister, known for his plain (for a European politician) speaking and his liking for hookers a third his age or less... ouster.
Democratic Party leader Pierluigi Bersani told the crowd that his party was prepared to work with other opposition groups to lead a new government.
Berlusconi's grip on power has been weakened by the ongoing sovereign debt crisis and infighting in his coalition that has prevented clear measures.
Italia's borrowing costs to service its enormous public debt at 120 per cent of GDP have been rising since the summer.
The protesters, who arrived on buses and trains from throughout Italia, were joined by center-left politicians from La Belle France and Germany, as well as a group of topless female demonstrators from Ukraine known as Femen.
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[Commentary] Oakland Mayor Jean Quan is quickly solidifying her reputation as one of the most spineless public officials in the country. After throwing her support behind the Occupy Oakland's plan to "shut down the city" this week, Quan now seems surprised that the protest quickly spiraled into a violent riot that left eight people injured, dozens of businesses vandalized, and untold financial damage in cleanup cost and police overtime pay.
Unfortunately for the besieged people of Oakland, the destruction hasn't convinced Quan to kick the Occupiers out of the city parks. In fact, she's now defending the movement, and blaming the havoc on a band of rogue provocateurs that had been "hiding out" among the peaceful OWS activists...
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Don't worry America. The Presidet, the Vice President and Pelosi of the House supports the lawlessness. But be assured that if the real terrorists per Janet Napolitano of Homeland Security, those on the right, tries anything, the Government will unleash hell on those on the right. Surely however, Rantburgers will simply sit back and "pass the popcorn" as America continues to morally rot away from within and then simply dies.
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That's a bland presumption, and don't call me Shirly.
There was a report at Jawa where the investigation into mr. ihateprojectilesoffmyhead and police conduct. As per Oldspook's guess/deduction, the officers named by the cattlepie'rs were filmed and reviewed and at the moment do not have any proof the police conduct was at fault, which points towards goofy getting hit by a fellow protester.
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Those idiots shut down a PORT yesterday. And who is that Port going to sue? The state of California and the City of Oakland for lost revenue due to man-made obstruction.
The police spend so much on overtime, and violent crimes and shootings are up in the cities because of the OWS protests - they cannot man their proper posts
It's public endangerment.
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Yes, another case soon of Mexicans doing the jobs Bay Longshoremen don't want to do. In a couple years, close Oakland and see the business go elsewhere.
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.
An asteroid bigger than an aircraft carrier will dart between the Earth and moon on Tuesday -- the closest encounter by such a huge rock in 35 years.
Greece's prime minister George Papandreou will resign today, Pasok party sources have told Sky News. A possible replacement for Mr Papandreou is currently being discussed, the sources have also indicated.
[Dawn] Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou survived a vote of confidence in parliament on Saturday, avoiding snap elections that would have torpedoed Greece's debt bailout deal and inflamed the euro zone's economic crisis.
[Dawn] Tens of thousands of opposition activists have demonstrated in central Rome for Premier 
