Waydaminit! Not even a rock whore?
In what authorities are calling "the work of a madman," a gunman went on a drive-by shooting rampage in a Santa Barbara student enclave that left at least seven people dead, including the attacker, and seven others wounded.
Investigators say they believe that a gunman driving a black BMW acted alone in the shootings late Friday night near the University of California-Santa Barbara.
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Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said early Saturday the person who carried out "this atrocity" was "severely mentally disturbed." - other site
In official language that means they couldn't connect him to the Tea Party, the Koch brothers, or any other known conservative groups.
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...and any possible ties to progressives, liberals, Democrats, George Soros or Tom Steyr, Cher, Brad Pitt or any other Hollywood whack-job will be ignored, buried and denied.
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I'm not gonna say anything now. They usually don't tell the truth about these sorts of things until two weeks afterwards, on page 40B, and the newspaper only has 15 pages to begin with these days.
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Unfortunately, I'm wondering it he stopped taking his meds lately..
It seems his earlier vids were 'Amazing' and 'Wonderful' and then became suddenly morbid...
IMO
[The Peninsula] A jealous husband castrated and murdered the mayor of a hamlet in northern La Belle France yesterday before killing himself, sparking shock and disbelief among residents.
Mayor Dominique Leboucher, 55, was brutally attacked by a man "who suspected him of having an affair with his wife," a police source said, adding that the unnamed attacker then did away with himself.
The crime sparked horror in the tiny village of Bretteville-le-Rabet in Calvados in northern La Belle France. "I do not believe this thing about infidelity at all," said Yannick Guesnon, one of the mayor's deputies, adding that the attack appeared to be "an act of madness."
Albert Gibot, a pensioner in the village of 250 souls, said the attacker had "blown a fuse as his partner used to attend meetings of the local council in the evenings."
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won't happen again, though
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Fulfilling your sworn civic duty
Can be fun when it's hittin' that booty.
Vive les femmes de la France!
But beware the response:
You may leave squeaking "Cosi fan tutte!"
Nondescript minivans pulled up like clockwork outside Newark's homeless shelters, and the drivers offered a deal few desperate people would turn down: a free health checkup and a guaranteed prescription for painkillers, which can fetch as much as $100 per pill on the street.
They were bused 10 miles away, authorities said, to a rundown strip mall in Passaic where the deal went down. A doctor offered a quick, often bogus exam before writing scripts for OxyContin or oxycodone. As a special thank you, he threw in a $10 gift card.
His patients could take the drugs or sell them on the black market. The doctor didn't care; he got paid by Medicaid either way.
And so did his business partners in the Russian mafia.
(Ay Pee) Heat maps illustrating concentrations of arrests glowed bright red along miles of the Rio Grande south of McAllen.
Of the 7,640 arrests made in the Rio Grande Valley last week, Mexicans ranked fourth, behind people from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. Widespread gang violence and lack of economic opportunity are cited as factors in the growing numbers of people from those countries.
Immigrant smuggling is a huge business dominated by Mexico's drug cartels, which either cross the groups themselves or collect a tax per head from smugglers. I bet they get papers as part of the cost, so they can get legally hired and pay taxes. And vote Democratic. Three times.
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I have a feeling Turn Texas Blue, the community organizer in the White House and LULAC are behind this.
Prices for pistol and rifle ammunition were mostly lower.
Prices for both used rifles and used pistols were mixed.
Pistol Ammo
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: OD Green Supply, CCI-Blazer, steel cased, .30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Quality Made Cartridges, Store Brand, Reloaded, .31 per round (-.01 from Last week)
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: OD Green Supply, CCI-Blazer, steel cased, .26 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Store Brand, reloaded, .26 per round (-.01 From Last Week)
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Selway Armory, Brown Bear, FMJ, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, Steel cased, FMJ, .21 per round (From Last Week: -.02 Each after unchanged for 3 Weeks)
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Selway Armory, CCI Blazer, JHP, .41 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 500 Rounds: LAX Ammunition, PMC, Reloaded, .57 per round (From last week: +.07 Each (!) (+.19 Each over 2 weeks (!)))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Random Discounted ARs, Tulammo, steel cased, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Random Discounted ARs, Tulammo, steel cased, .24 per round (From Last Week: -.03)
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (Two Weeks) after -.15 Each Previous Week
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ventura Munitions, Wolf Polyformance, steel cased, .47 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo2U, MFS, .46 per round (From last week: -.06 each (!) after Unchanged )
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each After unchanged (3 weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf, steel case, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Bulk Ammo, Wolf, steel case, .21 per round (Unchanged from Last Week (Six Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: -.06 Each (!)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: OD Green Supply, CCI-Blazer, RNL, .08 per round (4 Box Limit)
Cheapest Bulk, 5,000 rounds: Ammo Fast, Eley Sport, RNL, .11 per round (From Last week -.01 After Unchanged for 3 Weeks)
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $626 Last Week Avg: $652 (-)
California (185): Mixed Build: $650
Texas (298): Diamond Back: $650
Pennsylvania (150): Smith & Wesson M&P15: $650
Virgina (190): Palmetto State Armory: $600
Florida (397): Mixed Build: $580 (!)
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,300 Last Week Avg: $1,290 (+)
California (55): DPMS Sportical: $1,250
Texas (65): Smith & Wesson M&P 10: $1,250 (Prolly Same Gun)
Pennsylvania (27): Smith & Wesson M&P 10: $1,199 (Same Gun)
Virginia (43): Mixed Build: $1,400
Florida (86): Armalite: $1,400
7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $615 Last Week Avg: $586 (+)
California (40): WASR: $650
Texas (48): CAI: $675 (Same Gun)
Pennsylvania (61): Saiga: $500
Virginia (69): WASR: $650 (Same Gun)
Florida (123): CAI VZ2008: $599
7.62x54mm (Dragunov Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,134 Last Week Avg: $2,850 (-)
California (): None Available
Texas (): None Available
Pennsylvania (1): Romak PSL: $1,400
Virginia (2): Romak PSL: $1,200
Florida(5): Romak PSL: $800 (!)
Pistols
.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $498 Last Week Avg: $505 (-)
California (137): Rock Island Armory M1911A1: $460
Texas (215): Girsan 1911: $425
Pennsylvania (166): Rock Island Armory: $430
Virginia (158): Colt 1911 (Stainless): $675
Florida (368): Rock Island Armory 1911: $500
9mm Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic Average Price: $453 Last Week Avg: $415 (+)
California (127): Glock 19: $475
Texas (333): Glock 17: $450
Pennsylvania (187): Glock 17: $439
Virginia (242): Smith & Wesson M&P9: $425
Florida (464): Steyr M9-A1: $475
.40 caliber S&W (Glock and other semiautomatic) Average Price: $425 Last Week Avg: $430 (-)
California (83): Glock 23: $480
Texas (150): Glock 22: $365
Pennsylvania (126): Smith & Wesson M&P40 Shield: $380
Virginia (109): Glock 22: $450
Florida (205):Glock 22: $450
Hey Army, how. in. the. hell. did this guy get put in charge of anything? His politics and flounder's grasp of history and intent aside, he is foundationally incompetent. His prose is that of a 14 year old girl, smited, and you had him in charge of teaching history. At West Point.
Here is a guy who has made it his reason to be as a gun grabber with creds, and he builds his house on a here say story at a notoriously unreliable site then brags up his bonifides by bragging about all he needs is his, as I understand, illegal knives and his pub to be open.
If I were required to attend his class, I could only hope I would be sitting next to Statler and Waldorf.
[MAGHAREBIA] An Algiers court on Thursday (May 22nd) imposed prison sentences ranging from 20 years to life against nine foreigners involved in a 2011 drug trafficking case, El Watan reported.
The Nigeria, Ghana, Brazil and Singapore nationals were nabbed Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in 2011 at Algiers airport. The "mules" had swallowed capsules containing than 10 kilos of cocaine.
They were travelling from Brazil to Niger through Algerian territory.
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The "mules" had swallowed capsules containing than 10 kilos of cocaine...
Dude, that's some serious swallowing. I mean, that only took, what, 3 or 4 hours?
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[An Nahar] Russian troops near the Ukraine border will return to base in at least the next 20 days following an order from President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth 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... , the military's chief of general staff said Friday.
"The troops are being moved onto trains and military transport aircraft. This will take around 20 days," General Valery Gerasimov, Russia's chief of general staff, was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti news agency.
He dismissed a journalist's suggestion that the pull-out would be completed by June 1.
Putin on May 19 called an end to military exercises in regions bordering Ukraine, where troops had been deployed since March.
The troops based in Russia's western and southern regions began returning to their bases immediately on May 19, Gerasimov told journalists at a security conference in Moscow.
NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday that limited Russian troop movements near the border with Ukraine "may suggest" preparations for a withdrawal.
Gerasimov insisted that the troops did not present a threat to Ukraine.
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If no one objects, I'll just respectfully file under bullshi*. I still believe Champ is going to get an "October Surprise" from his old vriend Vlad.
MANILA -- The U.S. military commander in the Pacific warned Friday that the risk of a miscalculation that could trigger a wider conflict in a tense territorial standoff between China and Vietnam is high and urged both nations to exercise restraint. Adm. Samuel Locklear also urged Southeast Asian nations and China to hasten the drafting of a legally binding "code of conduct" to prevent territorial rifts from turning into armed conflicts that could threaten the region's bustling economies.
Right. Former communist thugocracies will work with impoverished, military weak countries to draft a legally binding code of conduct. Unicorns exist too, Admiral...
Locklear said he was concerned about a three-week standoff between China and Vietnam near the disputed Paracel Islands and urged them to resolve the territorial conflicts on the basis of international law.
"I have serious concerns," Locklear told reporters. "The risk of miscalculation, I think, is high and we encourage them both to exercise restraint."
China raised the stakes earlier this month when it deployed an oil rig off in waters also claimed by Vietnam, which sent ships to try to disrupt the drilling operation. Street protests morphed into bloody anti-Chinese riots that damaged hundreds of factories.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, who also attended an economic forum in Manila, [wrote] that "like all countries, Vietnam is considering various defense options, including legal actions in accordance with the international law." But he said Vietnam would defend itself if it comes under attack.
Analysts have said that countries confronted by China in disputed waters, like Vietnam, may seek a deeper security alliance with Washington.
They actually don't seem to be moving too sprightly on that one. Wonder why?
When asked by reporters about that possibility, Locklear said Washington has been forging such relationships and would welcome strategic ties with Hanoi. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum on East Asia, he said that the Asia-Pacific has become the most militarized region in the world, with some of the largest army and naval forces.
"How these forces are managed to create a fabric of security that allows economic success here has not yet been determined," Locklear said.
China claims nearly all of the South China Sea, bringing it into conflict with the far smaller nations of Vietnam, the Philippines and three others that have rival claims. Beijing also has a territorial dispute with Japan over a cluster of islands in the East China Sea.
Last year, the Philippines filed a complaint against Beijing before an international tribunal in The Hague challenging the legality of its claims. Beijing wants one-on-one talks with each of its rival claimants, something that gives it an advantage due to its sheer size and power.
U.S. efforts to pivot back to Asia after years of heavy military engagement in the Middle East were not meant to curb China's influence, Locklear said, suggesting Asian governments would treat China by its actions in the region.
"In my opinion, the only person that can contain China, is China," Locklear said.
The president also blamed "demographics" for the inability of the Democratic Party to gain more power in Congress, saying Democrats "tend to congregate a little more densely" in cities such as New York and Chicago. Much like vermin?
He said it gives Republicans disproportional clout in Congress.
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He completely understands the balance of power. He knows its there for a reason. Yet his narcissism gets the best of him in public. He needs to remember he did not win by a landslide. A large portion of Americans do not agree with his communist/socialist agenda. Our constitution was written explicitly so a narcissist like him hound not hijack the greatest nation on earth with an agenda that half of our country does not agree with. I would say, and I'm not expert, that our constitution was designed to work like this and is doing a great job of halting what Obama calls progress.
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Just him saying this out loud shows the tyrant heart beating in his breast.
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Oddlt enough, Rate My Professor has no listing for him. But I've read that his students did not receive the teaching they needed toward the bar exam.
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Meh, he's a weak twerp with a good baritone speaking voice. He's a new oddity, a creature of magic thinking the interwebs brought us. There will be more but not so obvious one hopes.
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The Constitutional provision of which Champ complains reflects something that the Founding Fathers were very good at and Champ is completely useless at: forging a compromise on a hotly disputed issue to promote the national interest. It's the difference between serious patriots on the one hand and an empty suit on the other.
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Came the call: Vivisect constitutions
Scrawled out by dead white Lilliputians!
ValJar Jar beats law law
As macaws tweet histoire
To a Gulliver enmeshed in delusions.
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Mean olde Mr. Arithmetic will win in the end. This country has $17x10^12 in debt, assets are a fraction of that, and future unfunded obligations are not even discussed. We are bankrupt, and the piper will be coming to town.
In the words of an old Alaskan I knew, not an elegant statement, but it hits the mark:
Watching the President and the Congress govern is like watching a bunch of monkeys f**king a football.
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Unfortunately AP - I think we are the football...
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A prof who insisted it wouldn't be missed
Fell in with a strict Constitutionalist:
"This old tatter," he sneered,
"Must be nipped, tucked, and queered."
"Well, pilgrim, I hope you're a pugilist!"
[DAWN] The micro-blogging website, Twitter, has honoured five requests put forth by an official from the Pakistain Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to block tweets that he regarded as blasphemous, a report published in the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... said.
All five requests were made in the month of May by the PTA's Abdul Batin who had asked Twitter to censor accounts, tweets or searches on the social network that he described as "blasphemous" or "unethical."
Twitter honoured all requests which called for the blocking of content from drawings of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!), photographs of burning copies of the Holy Koran and messages from a handful of anti-Islam bloggers as well as an American porn star who now attends Duke University, the NYT report said.
The blocking of these tweets in Pakistain is in line with Twitter's country-specific censorship policy that it made public in 2012.
The NYT report moreover said that it was the first time that the social network had agreed to block content in Pakistain.
Twitter's compliance with the PTA's requests comes at a time when Pakistain is already confronted with multiple censorship challenges. At the same time, discussion on the country's blasphemy laws has also become increasingly precarious with the targeting of secularists.
It is pertinent to mention that In May 2012, Twitter was briefly blocked in Pakistain over 'blasphemous' posts about a Facebook competition involving caricatures of Prophet Muhammad.
The website had been blocked by the PTA on the orders of the Ministry for Information Technology amid accusations it refused to remove messages about the Facebook contest.
The ban had sparked anger, and many in Pakistain appeared to have found a way to circumvent the restrictions and post on the microblog regardless.
Several hours after it was cut off, the PTA had restored access to the website.
In Pakistain, Twitter is used by prominent public figures such as celebrities, cricketers, cabinet ministers and members of parliament.
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[The Peninsula] Turkey said Friday that oil from Iraqi Kurdistan was being exported to international markets, a move that could exacerbate already-strained tensions between Iraq's central government and its autonomous Kurdish region.
Energy Minister Taner Yildiz told news hounds that shipments of Iraqi oil from Turkey's Mediterranean port of Ceyhan began Thursday night.
"It's Iraq that makes sales and possesses the oil and it's again Iraq that will govern the future sales," said Yildiz.
The exports via Turkey came in defiance of Storied Baghdad which asserts its oil ministry must approve all sales.
The oil ministry in Storied Baghdad and the prime minister's office did not immediately respond to AFP requests for comment.
Iraq has some of the world's largest deposits of oil and gas, and the central government in Storied Baghdad insists it has the sole right to develop and export the country's natural resources.
Since the US-led invasion in 2003, Storied Baghdad has been at loggerheads with the energy-rich autonomous northern Kurdish region, which has sought to sign deals with foreign firms and export without the consent of the central government.
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[The Peninsula] Thailand's military rulers detained former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra yesterday, a senior officer said, after summoning her for talks a day after the army overthrew her caretaker government in a coup.
As the army moved to consolidate its grip on the country, its chief, General Prayuth Chan-ocha, set out his plans for the country, saying reforms were needed before an election. But some Thais defied martial law to protest against the takeover.
Prayuth launched his coup after rival factions refused to give ground in a struggle for power between the royalist establishment and Yingluck's populist government that had raised fears of serious violence and damaged the economy.
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It is reported they've also detained academics and leaders of the disruptive mobs. It appears they're dealing with both sides. Maybe they visit some judges as well.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Tennessee has decided how it will respond to a nationwide scarcity of lethal injection drugs for death-row inmates: with the electric chair.
Republican Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill into law Thursday allowing the state to electrocute death row inmates in the event prisons are unable to obtain the drugs, which have become more and more scarce following a European-led boycott of drug sales for executions.
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Given that at any one time two thirds to three quarters of Americans want the death penalty, it's an obvious indication that we have long passed the stages of self rule and have accepted rule by the few to obstruct and stop justice. Meanwhile executions go on daily in our streets, our neighborhoods, our businesses and even schools. True innocents slaughtered.
When a state is unwilling to provide justice, the people will seek it out themselves. That is consider at threat to those who run the state even though they are the ones who by act or inaction create the consequence.
Sparky is not subject to obstructions of the FDA, just another brick in the wall of bureaucracy that has taken its powers well beyond anything it was intended to achieve political goals rather than its original function.
"The U.S. State Department has called upon Iran to release Abedini. In Meriam Ibrahim's case, the State Department has not affirmed that her husband is a U.S. citizen when questioned by CNSNews.com. However, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) have sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry flatly asserting that Ibrahim is 'the wife of U.S. Citizen Daniel Wani.'" Looks like the "Green Card" thingie has a check valve.
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Islam teaches that when the world is totally Islamic, the return of the 12 imam occurs. Christianity teaches that when all the Christians are gone, it is called The Day of the Lord.
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A beachhead is a temporary line created when a unit reaches a beach by sea and begins to defend the area while other reinforcements help out until a unit large enough to begin advancing has arrived.
[MEDIAITE] MSNBC host Ed Schultz ...currently hosting some kind of show on MSNBC that nobody watches, formerly touted as a Limbaugh killer for Air America... announced Wednesday that he will no longer be hosting his long-running syndicated radio show and will instead host an online-only broadcast hosted on his website, wegoted.com.
The move from radio to online means that instead of hosting a three-hour radio show each day, in addition to his daily TV show on MSNBC, Schultz will only produce one additional audio hour on a daily basis. The host said the change would go into effect next Tuesday after Memorial Day and that the new one-hour show will stream for free on his website, Monday through Friday from noon -- 1 p.m. ET.
"Really this change will give me more flexibility to be on the road to do the kind of shows I want to do here for The Ed Show on MSNBC," Schultz told his audience, putting a positive spin on the change. "This is on me, you know. I just don't want to do a three-hour talk show anymore."
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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.
Immigrant smuggling is a huge business dominated by Mexico's drug cartels, which either cross the groups themselves or collect a tax per head from smugglers.
...Second and fourth President and sixth 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...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Tennessee has decided how it will respond to a nationwide scarcity of lethal injection drugs for death-row inmates: with the electric chair.
