Take him to west Arizona, that's a good place, he can Bake in peace.
If there's no prison, stake him out on a chain, visit once a week with water and food, toilet facilities optimum, provide a shovel,and chain him to a ten ton Block of concrete, that should hold him.
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[NEWS.YAHOO] No smoking, no perfume, no mobile phone use -- the list of rules at a newly opened apartment building on the outskirts of Zurich is long. If anybody's got any money, I'll bet we could make a fortune building a "micro-aggression free" apartment complex within hollering distance of most any modern university.
For a reason: the structure has been purpose built for people who say exposure to everyday products like perfume, hand lotion or wireless devices make them so sick they cannot function.
"I have been suffering since I was a child. This will really move my life in another direction," said Christian Schifferle, the 59-year-old head of the Healthy Life and Living Foundation (www.stiftung-glw.com), the prime driver behind the project.
Schifferle and the other residents suffer from Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), a chronic condition not broadly recognised by the medical community. Those afflicted, however, believe it is sparked by low-level exposure to chemicals in things such as cigarette smoke, pesticides, scented products and paint fumes.
Twelve of the 15 apartments in the earth-coloured building in a remote part of Leimbach, on the outskirts of Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... 's largest city, have already been rented since it opened in December.
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sparked by low-level exposure to chemicals in things such as cigarette smoke, pesticides, scented products and paint fumes.
I recommend avoiding vegetables. Those things are just chock full of all sorts of alkaloids and toxins.
[Rooters] - The navies of Iran and Pakistan plan to hold joint military exercises in the eastern part of the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, Iran's state news agency said on Sunday.
Several Pakistani naval vessels, including a warship and a submarine, docked at the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas on Saturday, the IRNA news agency said, citing an Iranian Navy statement.
"The most important activity of the Pakistani fleet during its stay in Bandar Abbas is to launch joint maneuvers with selected units of Iran's Navy in eastern waters of the Hormuz Strait," Iranian Rear Admiral Shahram Irani told IRNA.
Iran's state news agency said the joint naval exercises were aimed at promoting military cooperation between Tehran and Islamabad but gave no details of the plans.
More than a third of the world's sea borne oil exports pass through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow corridor between Iran and Oman. Western navies, led by the United States, patrol the region to ensure their safe passage. Practicing their Donuzlav Lake shipping lane blocking tactics no doubt.
[Dawn] 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... 's supreme court has upheld a death sentence handed down against a teacher convicted of kidnapping and raping eight maidens of tender years, a local daily reported on Sunday.
A lower court in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah had found the man guilty last year of kidnapping girls aged between six and 11 from public areas and taking them to his home to rape them, the Makkah newspaper reported without giving his name.
His last victim, a nine-year-old whom he kidnapped from a wedding hall, was able to guide police to the area of Jeddah where he lived, leading to his arrest in 2011.
Earlier reports said the man was 42 at the time of his arrest, and married with four children.
He reportedly offered the girls sweets to lure them into his car, and sent his family away while he raped his victims in the family home.
Rape is one of a raft of crimes punishable by death in Saudi Arabia. Others include murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking.
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[AnNahar] Activists chanting "Russia!" broke through police lines Sunday and stormed several government buildings in eastern Ukrainian regions seeking independence from Kiev following last month's fall of a Kremlin regime.
Clashes in Donetsk and similar rallies in the heavily Russified cities such of Lugansk and Kharkiv provided another reminder to the untested pro-Western leaders in Kiev of the monumental task facing them after their February 22 overthrow of president Viktor Yanukovych.
The unrest comes with Ukraine's borders surrounded by Russian troops who had earlier seized the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea and the economy in tatters after decades of mismanagement and government theft.
Several eastern regions now want to stage referendums on joining Kremlin rule when Ukraine holds snap presidential polls on May 25. Both election frontrunners want to tie the vast country's future to Europe and break its historic dependence on Russia.
The day's most violent protest saw nearly 100 activists move away from a crowd of 2,000 rallying on the main city square of Donetsk to storm and occupy the government seat where they raised the Russian flag.
They threw firecrackers at about 200 riot police and ripped away several of their shields before raising the Russian flag above the 11-story building.
Some in the bustling city of one million chanted "Give us a referendum" and "NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... go home."
Police in the eastern city of Lugansk were forced to fire tear gas at a few hundred protesters who broke into the local security service building in order to win the release of 15 pro-Russian activists incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! earlier in the week.
The region's security service had accused the group of planning to seize the main administration building on Thursday with "the use of arms and explosives."
An Agence La Belle France Presse news hound saw several men break down the door of the security service building while others pelted its windows with stones and eggs. Local news reports said two coppers were hurt in the melee.
Unconfirmed reports from pro-Russian media sources said the activists had managed to secure the release of six of the 15 alleged Lugansk coup plotters and had barricaded themselves inside the building.
Several dozen people also entered the government seat in the eastern city of Kharkiv after breaking through police lines.
They thrust several Russian flags out of windows as a crowd of about 2,000 outside cheered and chanted "The police are with the people."
The coppers refused to use force against the crowd and moved about 50 meters (165 feet) away from the government seat after the Russian supporters broke inside.
An AFP news hound in Kharkiv also saw several hundred protesters surround a group of pro-European supporters who were mistaken for members of the ultra-nationalist Right Sector group.
The group was forced to march down a steep hill on their knees in what appeared to be a humiliation ritual that drew no police response.
The unrest and threat of bloodshed has sparked concern in both Kiev and Western countries that 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... may order his troops into the eastern regions following his promise to "protect" his compatriots there.
Washington believes that Russia has massed about 40,000 soldiers near the eastern border of Ukraine.
Moscow has denied plans to move its troops beyond Crimea but has thus far pulled only a few hundred troops back from the border region.
The latest violence prompted acting President Oleksandr Turchynov to cancel a planned visit to Lithuania and call an emergency meeting of his national security and defense council.
Interior Minister Arsen Avakov accused Putin and Yanukovych -- now living in self-imposed exile in Russia -- of "ordering and paying for another wave of separatist turmoil in the country's east."
"The situation will be brought under control without bloodshed," the interior minister wrote in a message posted on his Facebook account.
"But at the same, a firm approach will be use against all who attack government buildings, law enforcement officers and other citizens," Avakov warned.
Kiev and western regions of Ukraine that have ancient ties to nations such as Poland and overwhelmingly support the old government's ouster have recently been free of protests but also remain tense.
A prominent Right Sector leader was killed in a police shootout in western Ukraine late last month while another member of the group was arrested after wounding three when he opened fire near a central Kiev hotel last week.
The far right Svoboda party said that the body of one its more prominent activists had been found Saturday dumped in the woods with signs of torture a day after his abduction in the central village of Vygrayev.
Prosecutors said they had launched an investigation but provided no other details.
Svoboda is the current parliament's fourth-largest faction and is headed by the billionaire Sergiy Tigipko -- a veteran politician who is known for making disparaging remarks about Jews and is also standing for president in next month's elections.
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As per FREEREPUBLIC, the anti-Russian locals are now asking for "protection" from Kiev, potens also the UNO + NATO-EU - read, USA = POTUS Obama - in later.
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We now turn to the chapter in our story where the Bear, having staked its claim to Crimea, sits back and patiently waits for eastern Ukraine to split off and fall into its lap.
* RELATED RUSSIA TODAY > CLASHES ERUPT AS PROTESTERS DECLARE INDEPENDENCE [People'S Republic of Kharkov].
The PRK is Coming, the PRK is Coming!
* REAL CLEAR POLITICS > PROTESTERS IN UKRAINE'S EAST [Donetsk] CALL ON VLADIMIR PUTIN TO SEND IN TROOPS.
IIRC CNN this AM = I may have heard it wrong, but CNN repor that Pro-Russian Militants-Activists may have formed a Pro-Russia anti-Kiev/Ukraine "ARMY OF THE SOUTHEAST"???
NO WORD FROM LUGANSK = "PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF LUGANSK", BUT IS PROLLY OR LIKELY THE SAME.
versus
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Ria Novosti] EASTERN UKRAINE IS DIFFERENT FROM CRIMEA - RUSSIAN LAWMAKER.
* SAME > [Voice of Russia] RIOTS IN EASTERN UKRAINE PROVE ITS GOVT'S NEED FOR FEDERALIZATION - RUSSIAN FM.
Federalization = "Cantonization"???
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > US WARNS RUSSIA AGZ "OVERT OR COVERT ACTION" IN UKRAINE.
RELATED CNN AM = SECSTATE KERRY WAS WARNED RUSSIA THAT THESE NEW ESCALATIONS/TURMOIL IN POST-CRIMEA/ANNEXATION EASTERN UKRAINE "MUST STOP".
* TOPIX >[Daily Caller] [UNO + US, NATO] MILITARY INTERVENTION IS THE ONLY SOLUTION TO RUSSIA'S AGGRESSION.
By his or Russia's actions, Vlad has proven he is a direct threat to the sovereign Ukraine, Post-Soviet/Cold War Eastern Europe, + dare we say the entire World!?
[Hurriyet] The contractor of the Turkey's first nuclear plant, planned to be built in southern province of Mersin, has re-submitted the environmental approval-seeking report to the ministry months after being rejected.
I don't know about you, dear Reader, but I am not filled with confidence at the thought of an Islamist Turkey with nuclear anything.
The Environmental Assessment Evaluation (ÇED) report for the Akkuyu nuclear power plant has been submitted to the Environment and Urban Planning Ministry for evaluation.
The report is foreseen to be approved in May after being consulted to representatives of related institutions and specialists, according to government officials.
The first draft of the report was not approved because additional information needed to be added. With the additions, the 3,000-page report extended to approximately 3,500 pages.
The start of construction for the Mersin Akkuyu plant that is undertaken by Russian company Rosatom is scheduled for mid-2015, and by 2023 all four planned reactors are meant to have started generating power.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... the project still has to obtain a construction license and was hampered by other delays over the summer.
The plant's deputy general manager, Rauf Kasumov, said that even if there are small delays as a result of the report, construction of the nine-year project will be on target.
With the aim of replacing its heavy-dependence on foreign energy resources, Turkey pins high hopes on the project that is expected to cost about $20 billion.
As another major reason for the hold-up in the project is the lack of an eligible company to review and assess Rosatom's reactor plans to ensure the design meets safety standards.
[Hurriyet] The external debt stock of Turkey in 2013 has reached $388.2 billion, exceeding 47 percent of the national income announced as $820 billion
Another straw for the Turkish camel's back...
The external debt stock of Turkey in 2013 has reached $388.2 billion, exceeding 47 percent of the national income announced as $820 billion
Even though the loans to IMF have all been paid, the state owes $120 billion to other international institutions and markets.
When Turkey's 2013 growth external debt stock data was released last week, the dimensions and the content of the external debt stock, which is the main wind behind growth, were made clear. The growth rate for 2013 for the Turkish economy has been 4 percent, thus above the 2.1 growth of 2012.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... when the growth rate of an average of 9 percent in the years 2010 and 2011 are reminded, even if this figure is above the one of 2012, it is still named as "stalling growth."
It was seen that the 4 percent growth of 2013 was predominantly stemming from domestic consumption and that the contribution of foreign trade to growth has been very weak.
While the annual increase in private consumption reached 4.6 percent, it was also the public expenditures and public investments that were effective in growth.
Public consumption expenditures increased nearly 6 percent in 2013. The increase in private sector investments has been close to zero and did not affect growth.
Growth per capita
When the national income of 2013 is expressed in U.S. dollars, the national income of 2013 reached $820 billion. This is the indicator that makes Turkey the 16th or 17th largest economy of the world.
When it is divided into the population, the per capita income has become $10,782. This figure was $10,459 in 2012.
Usage of external loans or the external debt stock, which is the main wind behind growth, was released by the Office of the Treasury Undersecretary. The external debt stock reached at the last quarter of 2013 has become $388.2 billion.
During the Justice and Development Party (AKP) rule, external debts increased nearly 11 percent each year and in 2013, this figure has neared 15 percent. In just 2013, Turkey's foreign debt burden increased by $50 billion.
With Turkey's external debt stock reaching $388 billion, its ratio to the national income, which was released as $820 billion, has exceeded 47 percent. In 2012, the ratio of external debt stock to the national income was 43 percent.
While in those years when the dollar exchange rate was following a low course because national income seemed high when expressed in dollars, this ratio was below 40 percent.
In the first year of the AKP era, the external debt stock was $144 billion and this figure jumped up to $388 billion in 2013, increasing nearly 170 percent. In the same era, the national income's expression in dollars also increased in the same rate. The economy grew with the supply of external debts.
In 2013, the current accounts deficit neared $66 billion and this corresponded to 8 percent of the national income, which was announced as $820 billion. This is the highest current account deficit to the GDP rate among g-20 countries and looks as if it is the most important source used in the financing of the external debt.
Short term
It is important and critical that the $388 billion's external debt burden of 2013 is short term at a rate of one third. In 2003, the $23 billion of short term loans made up 16 percent of the total external debt stock. In the following years with more usage of short term loans, the rate of short term has increased and reached 33.3 percent in 2013, corresponding to $129 billion. It is observed that especially in 2013, short term loans recorded a considerable hike and $30 billion of the 50 billion external debts found were short term. This is an indicator of the difficulty faced in finding external loans.
The external debt stock data as of the end of 2013 shows the debt burden of the private sector is close to 69 percent of the total. At the beginning of the AKP era, public debts were predominant with 66 percent, with borrowing from the IMF being the forefront. In following years, with the tightening of the budget and the lowering of the need of debt of the public sector, public debts remained at a share of one third in the total, it was seen that the private sector took loans rapidly and made its share reach nearly $267 billion in 2013.
Even though the IMF debts were paid last year, the public still has $120 billion of external debt. The World Bank, some international organizations and markets have loaned $120 billion to Turkey's public agencies and 15 percent of them are short term.
[Hurriyet] Frost that hit a number of agricultural products at the end of March will likely result in a roughly 25 percent hike in market prices, sector representatives have said.
Another economic straw on a very unstable camel's back.
Heavy snow fell at higher elevations while temperatures occasionally dropped to minus 10 across Turkey, exacting a severe toll on a number of crops, particularly in the Black Sea, Central Anatolian and East Anatolian regions, Turkish Agricultural Chambers Union (TZOB) President Şemsi Bayraktar said yesterday in a written statement.
Analysts and sector representatives said a combination of frost and drought would lead to at least 25 percent hikes in affected produce while exports will also be hampered by falling production.
Bayraktar said tough winter conditions, including heavy storms and hail, experienced between March 29 and 31 had caused damage to fruit gardens, vegetable patches, areas of cereal cultivation, sugar beet fields and cornflower fields.
High temperatures and a lack of rain resulted in one of the driest winters in recent years in western and Central Anatolia.
According to Bayraktar, the winter drought resulted in an early blossoming for trees, negatively impacting their sensitivity against frost.
The Black Sea, where cold temperatures followed frost in higher elevations, was the heaviest-hit area, Bayraktar said, adding that the destruction in hazelnut and kiwi gardens in the region had reached up to 70 to 80 percent.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian... in Central and East Anatolia, gain crops turned yellow while sugar beets and corn suffered from heavy frost.
Almost all apricot and apple trees in the eastern province of Malatya, which is known as the "apricot capital" because the province supplies 80 percent of the world's apricot demand, also suffered damage from frost.
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So the apricots on my old big tree, this year, if spring cooperates, might actually be desired by somebody instead of just filling my freezer and the squirrels stashes?
[Dawn] A judicial magistrate remanded on Saturday a suspect in police custody in a case pertaining to posting of blasphemous material on his Facebook page till April 15.
The police enjugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! the suspect in Orangi Town on April 4 for allegedly posting caricatures of some of the Sahaba [companions of Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!)] on his Facebook page.
The suspect was produced before the magistrate for remand and was handed over to police on 10-day physical remand for questioning.
Paperwork was started but nothing else was done against the suspect under Section 298-A (use of derogatory remarks, etc. in respect of holy personage) of the Pakistain Penal Code at the Ittehad Town cop shoppe.
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Uh-Oh, Mazzie is going to get it now, under Section 298-A
[Dawn] Mohammedan Town police discharged on Saturday nine-month-old Mohammad Musa from a case of attempted murder lodged by the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines.
The case had been registered against members of a family and dozens of other inhabitants of Mohammedan Town after they allegedly attacked a bailiff and raiding team of the SNGPL after it went there to arrest people involved in gas theft.
Musa had already been granted a confirmed pre-arrest bail by a sessions court against surety bonds of Rs50,000.
Talking to Dawn, SSP Abdul Rab confirmed deletion of the baby's name from the FIR. He said the controversy was a result of misunderstanding as the list of the accused provided to police by the gas company's raiding team made no mention of their ages.
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Well the kid will still grow up to be a Paki Baby Face Nelson Musa
[Ynet] Dr. Nof Atamna-Ismaeel, a 33-year-old mother of three from northern city of Baqa al-Gharbiyye, dreams of opening a Jewish-Arab cooking school.
A sweet story of normalcy.
Dr. Nof Atamna-Ismaeel, a 33-year-old microbiologist from the northern Israeli Arab city of Baqa al-Gharbiyye, is the big winner of the fourth season of reality cooking show "Master Chef Israel."
Atamna-Ismaeel won the final after a tight battle against 54-year-old Ido Kronenberg of Savyon. Meseret Woldimikhal, a 42-year-old Æthiopian native, came in third.
The winning dish, which Atamna-Ismaeel named "Sultan's Spring," was made of stripped red mullet with almond cream and a fresh vegetable salad.
"It was one of the most exciting experiences of my life," she said after being declared the winner.
During the "Master Chef" season, Atamna-Ismaeel discussed her dream of opening open a Jewish-Arab cooking school which would attract students from all over the country, and she will now try to fulfill it.
In addition to her PhD in biological science, Atamna-Ismaeel has as many as four additional postdoctoral degrees. She has three children, a six-year-old boy and two-year-old twins, and as a child she studied in a Jewish school.
Her mother, a Hebrew teacher, gave her daughter the name Nof after watching a television series on Jordanian TV about a girl with that name, which is common among desert nomads and means the highest spot on the camel's hump.
[Ynet] The Jerusalem District Attorney filed an indictment with the city's District Court against a 31-year-old Israeli settler for torching seven olive trees that belong to Palestinians.
The man is also accused at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court of threatening a Palestinian woman, slashing tires of a Palestinian's car and an attempt to attack with a knife.
"Price tag" stuff, which Israel treats as the crime it is.
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Somewhere, during the Diaspora, we Jews lost sight of the fact that it just as immoral not to repay ill with ill as it is not to repay good with good.
[AnNahar] Friends and family will be able to take the first step to save a loved one from an overdose of heroin or powerful painkillers called opioids.
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved an easy-to-use device that automatically injects the right dose of an overdose antidote named naloxone before an ambulance arrives. Doctors could prescribe it for family members or caregivers to keep on hand, in a pocket or a medicine cabinet.
Opioids include legal prescription painkillers, such as OxyContin and Vicodin, as well as illegal street drugs like heroin.
Called Evzio, the device contains naloxone, a long-used antidote for overdoses that is usually administered by syringe in ambulances or emergency rooms. But with the rise in drug overdose deaths, there has been a growing push to equip more people with the protection.
The FDA said Evzio's design makes it easy for anyone to administer. Once Evzio is turned on, it provides verbal instructions, much like defibrillators that laymen frequently use to help people who collapse with cardiac arrest. It is about the size of a credit card or small cellphone.
The antidote is not a substitute for immediate medical care, the FDA said, as anyone who has overdosed will need additional treatment.
Still uncertain is how much the antidote will cost. Executives of the drug's manufacturer, kaléo, Inc., of Richmond, Va., said it is too soon to say, but they are working with health insurers to get broad coverage.
Eric Edwards of kaléo says the antidote is intended not just for heroin or prescription drug addicts, but also for people who have accidental overdoses, unexpected drug interactions or are on very high doses of the drugs. People who overdose may suffer slower breathing or heart rates or loss of consciousness.
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said in a statement that 16,000 people die every year due to opioid-related overdoses, and that drug overdose deaths are now the leading cause of injury death in the United States, surpassing motor vehicle crashes. She said the increase in overdose deaths has largely been driven by prescription drug overdoses.
"While the larger goal is to reduce the need for products like these by preventing opioid addiction and abuse, they are extremely important innovations that will help to save lives," Hamburg said.
The announcement follows several state efforts to widen access to the antidote. At least 17 states and the District of Columbia now allow naloxone -- commonly known by the brand name Narcan -- to be distributed to the public. Some of those states allow for third parties, such as a family member or friend of an intravenous drug user, to be prescribed it. On Thursday, the state of New York announced that every state and local law enforcement officer will now carry syringes and inhalers of naloxone.
Police in Quincy, Mass., have been carrying naloxone nasal spray since 2010 and said in July 2013 that they used naloxone 179 times, reversing 170 of those overdoses -- a 95 percent success rate.
Some have questioned the idea, however. Maine Gov. Paul LePage has opposed a bill that would allow health care professionals to prescribe it for caregivers and family members and allow more emergency responders to carry the drug, saying it could raise Medicaid costs. He vetoed a similar bill last year, arguing that it could provide a false sense of security that abusers are somehow safe if they have a prescription nearby.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that making the antidote more available is part of a comprehensive government strategy to reduce opioid addictions, along with educating the medical community about signs of possible problems and reducing illegal access to the drugs.
Attorney General Eric Inaction Jackson Holder ... aka Mister Fast and Furious... also weighed in on heroin abuse Thursday, telling a Senate committee that the government needs to deal differently with the heroin epidemic than it did with the crack cocaine crisis decades ago, when police focused on large-scale arrests and imprisonment.
Holder said the government has a small window to prevent the heroin problem from getting "even more out of control than it already is," saying specialized drug courts within the criminal justice system are a good way to reduce the prison population.
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And pretty soon cities will be offering junkies this for *free* much like their needle exchange programs. "Here have this and if you start to O.D. then have your buddy inject you with it.". More people will be junkies than ever. Which will fit the pols just find - a junked-out citizen is a quiet citizen. Just as long as they vote democrat (or someone can vote democrat for them).
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Only if they wanted to lower the crime rate 3dc. That often is not the case with Pols - they don't want to actually solve the problem but merely look like they are doing something about it or they can blame someone / something else ( Conservatives, Corporations, Vets, Guns, etc...). Or use it to extend their power over people.
See War on Poverty, War on Drugs, War on , and now it looks like War on Terror as well. There is a negative incentive for the politician to actually fix the problem - they need the problem in order to have a reason for people to vote for them?
[AnNahar] One person was killed and 14 maimed Sunday in a series of apparently co-ordinated blasts -- including a boom-mobile -- in a major town in Thailand's insurgency-hit south, the army said.
Four kabooms rocked Yala, a scenic provincial capital, on Sunday afternoon including a device hidden in a car which destroyed the vehicle and damaged several nearby buildings.
Car bombs are rare in the Mohammedan-majority south, which has seen near-daily shootings and kabooms in a decade-long rebellion against Thai rule.
The charred and mangled wreckage of the car remained in the street hours after the blast as plumes of thick smoke spiraled into the air, according to an Agence La Belle France Presse photographer.
"There were four almost simultaneous kabooms in Yala town," army front man Colonel Promote Prom-in told AFP.
"One of the devices was hidden in a car which was stolen a long time ago. The car had also been used for several robberies," he said.
A second bomb hidden in a suitcase killed one person, he said, while two smaller devices hit a market and a bank.
Yala is one of three Mohammedan-majority southern provinces afflicted by an insurgency which pits shadowy rebels, seeking a level of autonomy for the region, against Thai troops and police.
Around 6,000 people have been killed in the festering conflict -- the majority of them civilians caught between the warring sides.
Several rounds of peace talks last year had raised hopes of progress towards a peace settlement. But a six-month-old political crisis in Bangkok has seen the negotiations suspended.
During the hiatus rebels have stepped up the violence, attacking "soft" non-military targets.
Observers say the spike in violence is in response to Thailand's failure to respond to rebel demands to work towards a road map for peace.
Last week three government officials -- two of them women -- were rubbed out in an ambush. One woman's body was then decapitated and left on the roadside.
Many local ethnic Malay Mohammedans accuse Thai authorities of widespread human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... abuses and a lack of respect for their religion, culture and language.
Those grievances are seized upon by the Death Eaters as a reason for assassinations of representatives of the Thai state, including teachers, government officials and security forces.
Rights groups accuse security forces of acting with impunity and inflaming the situation with heavy-handed tactics.
But they have expressed hope the stalled grinding of the peace processor will be revived, especially as Thailand appears now to recognize the need for a political solution to the 10-year conflict.
[AnNahar] The Internal Security Forces on Sunday announced the arrest of nine people, after Sidon resident Wadiha al-Baidawi was killed Friday by celebratory gunfire while watching a wedding from the window of her apartment in Sidon.
The 19-year-old woman was killed after being hit by a bullet to the head, the ISF said in a statement.
What goes up must eventually come down, Allah not intervening in simple physics, as it turns out.
"Following investigations, members of the Sidon cop shoppe in coordination with the Intelligence Bureau incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Saturday six people who had fired weapons during the wedding," it added.
The arrested men are five Lebanese and a Paleostinian, the ISF stated.
It added that the army's intelligence branch in the South handed the Sidon cop shoppe three people -- two Lebanese and a Paleostinian -- who were also involved in the shooting.
"A pistol and two pump-action rifles in addition to the gunshot that hit the woman and four bullet shells have been seized," the ISF announced.
"Following investigations, it turned out that the Paleostinian M. A. and the Lebanese H. W. were not involved in the shooting and they were released while the others were kept in jug and investigations are underway under the supervision of the relevant judicial authorities," it added.
[AnNahar] The presidential elections are unlikely to be held in Leb given the situations on the regional and international scenes, reported the Kuwaiti al-Anba daily on Sunday.
They've got on fine without one thus far...
Diplomatic sources told the daily that the government of Prime Minister Tammam Salam is likely to assume a caretaker role and take over the duties of the president should the elections be postponed.
"Local desire to hold the elections is not sufficient to hold them," added the sources.
They cited the recent developments in Ukraine, Arab disputes, and the "U.S. escalation against the Syrian regime" as factors that will affect the presidential elections in Leb.
Some sides are deluded in believing that Leb is independent in electing a president, they continued.
The election of eleven Lebanese presidents over the years, excluding Suleiman Franjieh in 1970, was influenced by foreign powers.
Salam stated on Saturday that his cabinet "does not want to fill a vacuum."
"I have said since the beginning that this cabinet is here for two months only, and it will focus on priorities such as the security situation, the issue of refugees, and the economic and financial situation in the country," he reiterated.
"But our main priority remains reaching consensus over a new parliamentary electoral law and electing a new president," Salam added.
President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... 's six-year term ends in May but the Constitution states that the parliament should choose a new head of state within a two-month period before the end of the incumbent's term, which started on March 25.
Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... leader Samir Geagea ... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005 ... announced on Friday his candidacy for the presidential elections.
No other official has announced his candidacy, but a front man for the Maronite Patriarchate in Bkirki announced last week that the four main Maronite leaders, Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... chief MP Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... , Marada Movement the personal militia of Suleiman Franjieh, president of Lebanon at the outbreak of the civil war, currently Syrian toadies, but you never know when that could change... chief Suleiman Franjieh, Kataeb Party leader Amin Gemayel, and Geagea are all presidential candidates.
Aoun had remarked on Wednesday that he will not run in the elections if the Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... Movement endorses Geagea's candidacy.
h/t Gates of Vienna
In July of 2013, Illinois became the last state in the union to enact a concealed carry law. In January of this year, the state began accepting applications for permits. This week, Chicago police announced that the citys first quarter murder rate was the lowest since 1958.
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The evil Koch brother are conspiring with the Bush and Hitler ghosts to bring more guns and pure evil down on society. The numbers are a lie, but the Obamacare numbers are truth. Listen to me. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. He may look like Soros but he's not. Now move along.
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Shaky conclusion. City starts accepting permits in January, takes maybe a month to process...half the quarter is gone already. Not much time for a measurable effect. One might also expect concealed carry to effect robbery stats more than murders.
Given that the winter in the Upper Midwest of savagely cold, I'd lean towards weather as as explanation.
Interestingly, while googling for Chicago crime states, I ran across some suggestions that the cops are cooking the books to make the numbers look good. Yes, I'm surprised as you are.
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Yes, predictive policing shows with some precision that the first weekend the temps crack 50, the shooting count is usually in the 20-30 range with up to 10 or more fatalities.
These shootings will not take place on Michigan Ave but may come within a couple blocks of Obamas former home.
This weekend should be the home opener for grudge resolution in the Windy City.
Place your bets accordingly.
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.
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[DAILYSTAR.CO.UK] CHRIS Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow held a bizarre separating ceremony to prepare themselves for their imminent divorce.
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...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...
Samir Geagea
Michel Aoun
