[FOXNEWS] It may have taken more than a century, but Italian police have finally figured out who killed an undercover NYPD detective in Sicily.
Giuseppe "Joe" Petrosino, known as "the Detective in the Derby," was a pioneer in taking down organized crime back in the early 1900s and was the NYPD's secret weapon when it came to fighting Italian mobsters.
He was dispatched to Sicily in March 1909 on a special job to investigate the Sicilian Mafia's ties to its American counterpart the Black Hand, a group of thugs that targeted Italian-American immigrants.
American media outlets caught wind of Petrosino's mission and leaked the details, but Petrosino refused to abort the mission. He believed the Sicilian mafia would not kill a police officer as was the case back in New York.
But he was wrong. Petrosino was waiting for an alleged informant in downtown Palermo when he was ambushed by gunnies and shot four times.
Amid reports of Petrosino's liquidation, cops rounded up every Black Hand suspect they could get their hands on, according to the March 13, 1909 article published in The Evening Post, the Post's name until 1934.
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shoulda checked behind the toilet tank. Enjoy the cannoli
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[THEGUARDIAN] Now that cocktails in jam jars have made it to EastEnders, what's next for those who would be 'alternative'? Go buy a Brooks Brothers suit and go to the opera so you don't look and act like everybody else.
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LMAO. Go with the timeless stuff, and disregard the dipshits that change every few years because some gay designer in NY/LA decided to call something else "fashionable".
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I'd love to see one of those dipshits change a tire. Took me six and a half minutes to do that off the Mass. Turnpike last week, and I was pissed at myself for taking too long. Granted, a completely shredded tire and frozen lugs didn't help, but still!
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Can we please get rid of all of those tattoos? Especially on women?
Al
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One of our g-daughters showed up to a family function over the weekend wearing jeans embellished with holes and tears. I remarked that it was apparent the banking business (her vocation) must not be doing very well. She was not, er, amused, and Mrs. Phester, shockingly enough (/sarc), took her side.
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Cocktails in jam jars? Why, weez'all head of duh treeend out hear...Whisky and bourbon are cocktails right? Or is this some hipster slang I don't want to know about.
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Why Mr.swksvolFF a flat cap is a Yorkshire thing, it is a cap and it is flat. you can carry your lunch in your flat cap or water your dawg in the field with your flat cap. You can adjust it and think, take it off and scratch your head and think, admire the fine tweed and think you can also carry 4 kittens in it in a pinch. A fine piece of haberdashery. Highly recommended. Think Sir Jackie Stewart, but not Scotish, Yoirkish.
To eliminate the tornado threat for the entire Tornado Alley, we may need to build three great walls. The first one should be close to the northern boundary of the Tornado Alley, maybe in North Dakota. The second one should be in the middle, maybe in the middle of Oklahoma and going to east. The third one can be in the south of Texas and Louisiana. As a proof of concept, we can build the 3rd wall first on the Texas/Mexican boarder. Yeah, that is the ticket. Get all the great plains states to join with the boarder states to get it done.
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Used to chase twisters. Watched them when they were over head funnel clouds spinning along up near the clouds. Watched them dance along the ground like little erratic dust devils, watched them move slowly along like a huge monster when they became a mile wide. They moved sometimes in one direction, sometimes in another, sometimes they skipped along for miles, other times they touched down for just a few feet, or never touched down at all but tore everything up that was 20 feet above ground and up.
The science of a tornado predictability is something I do not see man ever being capable of predicting unless they have a direct line of communication with Providence.
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TA7166,
As I understand it, tornado alley is caused by a wobble in the jet stream which is in turn caused by the Rocky mountains. The jet stream goes almost due north. The walls would break up this flow.
In Philadelphia, there is one skyscraper building, Comcast Center, about 300 meter high. From the cost of Comcast Center, we estimate that to build one mile such wall, we need about $160 million. On the other hand, the damages caused by single tornado attack in Moore, Oklahoma on May 20, 2013 alone were multi billion dollars. Therefore, it seems that the cost for building such a wall is affordable.
Yeah, all that aluminum. Hey, what if we built a giant aluminum pyramid out in the middle of nowhere and used it as a giant tornado magnet to divert them from populated areas?
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Tornados have been recorded in every US state, all Canadian provinces, and most countries of the world. The anomaly in 'Tornado Alley' is repeat incidents and longevity, mostly caused by topography and prevailing weather conditions. Ground clutter does not stop them from forming, or even slow them down. (You haven't been through anything til you've shared a deep pine forest with a funnel cloud.)
About 15 years ago, a F4 went though downtown Fort Worth, and one of the buildings that took significant damage was the 'Cash Pawn' skyscraper, of whom the largest tenant was the FBI (stone serious here). The funnel blew out windows and sucked out filing cabinets, spraying a five mile long area with papers with 'Secret' stamped on them. They asked people to return the documents, but please don't look at them.
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SteveS, I'm beginning to get the 'Federal Grant' tingle. I'm thinking a Eco-study is in order.
Not to prove anything of course. Just to identify there is some(p<.05) data that might suggest, something. Maybe a Leyden Jar effect when the microwave and TV are on and the blowing wind wraps a negative static charge on the shell.
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I'd sure as hell hate to be the one doing the Phase I Site Assessments for these boondoggles walls.
On the other hand, it would guarantee work for a couple of lifetimes, particularly when the Greenies get involved and start sueing the Feds and all the state gummints involved.
We could call the authorizing legislation "The Full Employment for Lawyers and Engineers Act."
(All snark aside, this "idea" is boggle-worthy. But I agree - let's test it first along the Mexican-U.S. border.)
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Something that I eventually learned about in Texas - after a long while - is the "Dry Line". It's basically a dry front moving east after the moisture is dried out pushing over the Rockies.
The combination of warm air from the south, cool air from the north, and dry air from the west causes a lot of instability at the south end of Tornado Alley. Plus causes a lot of other violent storms without twisters.
The Great 2000 Fort Worth Tornado occurred on March 28, 2000 and made the Bank One/Cash Pawn building (see #7) uninhabitable because it twisted the building on its foundation - like 1.5 degrees. I suppose no engineer would tackle the task of figuring out how to remedy that!
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What I don't understand is why people ignore their own history. What about revetments (aka glacis)? After watching what was done to a OK school house how expensive would it be to put revetment facing north, west, and south around the schools? When men started to put horizontal energy against curtain walls with cannon about five hundred years ago, they figured out putting revetments around those walls cause the force to either die in the revetment or glance over the curtain wall, minimizing damage. Sure, you'd lose a roof or two, but basic building structures would remain rather than collapse on people. It's not like tornado dig canals in the earth they traverse.
[Breitbart] GRANJENO CITY, Texas"--A remote section of the U.S.-Mexico border near the Anzalduas International Bridge is one of the few places where media can witness and record the mass crossings of minors coming from Central America. The U.S. Border Patrol is now restricting journalists' access to the area citing safety concerns. Safe enough that the Agent can park his IBA (Individual Body Armor) in the passenger seat however. Pakistain doesn't allow reporters on the ground in North Wazoo either.
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Aka... don't show the sleeping American public what is really going on or they might ask questions and realize we have been lying to them for decades.
MCALLEN, Texas—A trusted law enforcement source is reporting that shots are currently being fired on the Mexican side of the U.S. border. The shots are intended to harass the increased presence of Texas law enforcement personnel.
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Bah, create a border zone using radioactive waste and other toxic materials...on the Mexican side of the border. Density should be sufficient to inflict a lethal dose of whatever, to ensure a lifespan of about 10 days of anyone crossing about 10 feet of the zone. Problem solved. Evolution in action.
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And if Mexico complains, wipe out their government. It's hostile anyway. In fact, I honestly believe a state of war exists between the US and Mexico. Time to start fighting back.
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Good opportunity for some Civic Action Teams to train local law enforcement on sniper acquisition equipment and TTP developed in Iraq/Afghanistan. BTW, local law enforcement training is authorized under Posse Comitatus.
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Really, you guys?
Pretty extreme when there are already unenforced measures in place. Random(profiling) spot checks, in any border state, for 'papers' with free bus trips to Mexico-side refugee holding camps would get my vote.
The penalty for transgression should be worse than current conditions.
The United States this week finished altering its ground-based, long-range nuclear missiles to each carry just one warhead, the Great Falls Tribune reports.
Somehow I don't feel safer...
Crews carried out the final modification of an intercontinental ballistic missile at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, the newspaper reported on Wednesday. The service implemented the alterations under a nuclear-arms pact with Russia.
The New START strategic arms-control treaty called for the change to the nation's Minuteman 3 ICBMs, which were previously able to carry three "Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicles." The United States maintains roughly 450 of the missiles, deployed at the Montana facility and at bases in North Dakota and Wyoming.
"This was the last Minuteman 3 in the Air Force to be 'deMIRVed,' and this is a major milestone in meeting the force structure numbers to comply with the New START requirements," Steve Ray, a member of Air Force Global Strike Command's missile maintenance division, said in a released comment.
"This is historic because we've had MIRVs in the field for more than 40 years, since 1970 when the first Minuteman 3 came on alert," Ray said.
In its 2010 Nuclear Posture Review, the Obama administration said "deMIRVing" the weapons would "enhance the stability of the nuclear balance by reducing the incentives for either side to strike first."
Meanwhile, the Air Force is still reviewing alternatives for a next-generation ICBM capability, U.S. Strategic Command head Adm. Cecil Haney said on Wednesday. The existing Minuteman 3 fleet can remain in service through 2030, he noted in comments referenced in a Defense Department news release.
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By treaty, the Trident D5 is limited to eight W88 thermonuclear warheads in a MIRV configuration.
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Besides overwhelming non-nuclear ABM defenses, A MIRV warhead is capable of laying down a star pattern. The overpressure zones overlap increasing the destructive power (i.e. increasing the pounds per square inch on structures in the blast radius) at the center.
[Pakistan Today] Emirates Airlines has imposed a lifetime travel ban on Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri writer of a 600-page Fatwa on Terrorism, which is claimed by him to be an "absolute" scholarly refutation of all terrorism
and is also considering initiating legal proceedings against him for keeping the aircraft 'hostage' for several hours at Lahore airport after the flight was diverted by the Pakistani government to Lahore from Islamabad over security concerns, a private news channel has reported.
According to the channel, the airliner was forced to take the decision after Qadri refused to get off the aircraft in Lahore and also barred other passengers from disembarking until he negotiated a deal with the provincial authorities.
The airliner believes that this act of Qadri was tantamount to hijacking therefore it was mulling legal options. No peanuts for you.
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According to the AP, Pakistan diverted the passenger plane carrying Qadri to Lahore on Monday out of security concerns, said an official, leading to a standoff in which the cleric refused for hours to get off the aircraft while it waited on the tarmac.
A government that can make the important decisions -- how refreshing!
The government has approved the raising of three squadrons of the iconic American-made Apache attack helicopters for the Indian Army. This marks a big win for the Army in its epic war with the Indian Air Force (IAF) for the control of helicopter gunships.
"The Army will get 39 Apache attack helicopters at an estimated cost of over $2.5 billion after the first tranche of 22 of these gunships, currently being negotiated with the US, is delivered to the IAF," disclosed an exultant officer at Army Headquarters.
All future acquisitions of attack helicopters will thereafter be for the Army, an indication that a reluctant IAF will gradually cede this role of providing close helicopter support for ground troops in combat entirely to the Army, which hopes to start getting its Apaches after 2018.
The new Apache squadrons will be integrated with three existing strike corps of the Army, which are tasked with an offensive cross-border role. "This was a long-standing service requirement for a combined Army team concept," explained the senior officer, arguing that an integrated attack helicopter element will mean better synergy with invading ground forces. Sources indicated that Apache elements will also be provided to the Mountain Strike Corps, which is in the process of being raised.
At the moment, India's Mi-35 and Mi-25 gunships are operated by the IAF under the command of the Army, which is now happier at the prospect of the Army Aviation Corps owning and flying the attack helicopters.
The Army's demand for integral attack helicopters gained currency after the Kargil War of 1999, where it clashed with the IAF in its insistence that helicopter gunships be used against Pakistani fighters entrenched on mountain tops. This even led to a stand-off between the then Chiefs of the Army and the IAF, General V.P. Malik and Air Chief Marshal A.Y. Tipnis.
The IAF's squadrons of heavy and slightly dated Mi-35 Russian-made gunships were not suited for operations at such heights as Kargil's. Under pressure from the Army, the IAF used an Mi-17 transport helicopter as a makeshift gunship against the Pakistanis, who shot it down with a Stinger missile, inflicting both a setback and ignominy on the IAF.
"The Army insisted on the use of attack helicopters. We kept asking them to tell us the task, and leave the choice of assets to be used to us," recalls Air Marshal P.S. Ahluwalia, a former commander-in-chief of the Western Air Command. The IAF believes that the Army does not understand application of air power as well as a specialist Air Force would.
Also, it will take many years for the Army to operate the gunships independently, cautions Air Marshal Ahluwalia. "It'll take some time for Army pilots to be trained in fighter tactics and survivability," he warns, shrugging that the process of training the Army in this role would have to be midwifed by the IAF. The slow-moving, low-flying attack helicopters are vulnerable to surface-to-air and air-to-air missile attacks.
The Army nibbling away at the Air Force turf has soured ties somewhat between the two forces, but observers believe that time is a healer. In the past, the IAF also strongly resisted relinquishing the maritime air role to the Navy, but today, naval aviation has matured into a potent specialist force operating everything from surveillance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft to contemporary multi-role fighters. The Navy's aviation arm has produced three chiefs in the last 25 years.
Having tasked blood with its success in wresting the attack helicopter role, the Army is now eyeing integral fixed-wing aircraft as well. Sensing further turf erosion, the IAF is reminding the Army that in the age of jointmanship and resource crunches, assets and roles must not be duplicated. The last word is yet to be said in the continuing inter-service rivalry.
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[AnNahar] U.S. authorities have stressed that thousands of underage migrants rushing to make it into the United States, most of them from violent regions of Central America, will face deportation.
"While some might make asylum requests, I want to make very clear that asylum is very difficult to obtain. Very few people get asylum in the United States," Esther Olivarria, an adviser to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, said Monday.
The United States has seen a huge surge in young migrants fleeing gang violence and poverty in Central America, mostly Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
U.S. officials say they have detained more than 47,000 unaccompanied children trying to enter the country in the eight months ending in late May 2014 -- nearly twice the number detained in the 12-month period ending in late September 2013.
Some enter the country and request asylum. Others contact relatives already in the United States and petition to remain.
There has also been an increase in the number of mothers traveling with their children, officials say. Many reports say smugglers fuel rumors that some U.S. permit or temporary status may be granted for minors, apparently to keep business booming.
But Johnson himself wrote in a lengthy editorial in U.S. Spanish-language media at the weekend, insisting that the United States would not grant residents' permits to undocumented youths.
"To the parents of these children I have one simple message: Sending your child to travel illegally into the United States is not the solution," Johnson wrote.
"In the hands of smugglers, many children are traumatized and psychologically abused by their journey, or worse, beaten, starved, sexually assaulted or sold into the sex trade ... (and) there are no 'permisos,' 'permits' or free passes at the end.
"If your child is caught crossing the border illegally, he or she will be charged with violating United States immigration laws, and placed in deportation proceedings — a situation no one wants.
"The document issued to your child is not a 'permiso,' but a 'Notice To Appear' in a deportation proceeding before an immigration judge," Johnson underscored.
Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... , on a visit to Guatemala on Friday, said Central American child migrants leave their countries because of poverty, violent crime and a failure of local legal systems.
Guatemalan President Otto Perez has blamed the problem on Washington's failure to reform its immigration policy and provide a path to citizenship for 12 million immigrants already in the country.
The increased flow of migrants "is a serious humanitarian issue standing alone ... and ... it is a fundamentally shared problem for the United States, Mexico, and this entire region," Biden said.
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Three, four months before Obama's second election I tuned in to a hip hop station that was always extremely pro_Obama/ACORN, all kinds of praise for Zero, and heard a commercial about free Obama phones. Did not hear that commercial on Jazz, Country, Classical, or talk radio, only on Hip Hop stations around the nation. It was a very pointed marketing scheme to buy votes.
When I heard that Central American stations were promoting get in America free spots I knew the same White House bunch that were targeting Hip Hop voters were now targeting Central America to deluge red states with undocumented Democrats.
This clearly got the White House some big backlash in recent days. And would the White House rats running this scam give a damn about the people who bit the bait, went through hell to get here, and now suddenly being told go back through hell to get back to Guatemala, Peru, etc.? Or give a damn about the federal employees going through hell to deal with this stunt? Hell no. Their own asses is what comes first. And this time, the human suffering, even to the point of moving children around to avoid social services inspections of the suffering, should be enough to have everyone in the White House including the scrawny ass occupying the Oval Office desk chair kicked again and again for the rest of their decadent lives. The fallout from the big lie to the Central American people will grow and grow and grow like other historical atrocities and THIS kick them square in their teeth.
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I'd like to see a rumor get started that unaccompanied children under the age of five or so, whose families have clearly abandoned them at the border would be made wards of the court and available for adoption by American families.
That might give pause to those considering sending toddlers north as an opening ploy for later getting the whole family to the US.
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Not to mention that states can also charge said parents with child abandonment and endangerment. Like most crime, you have to make examples to keep the frequency down. Past time to start in this case. If anyone pipes up in the Beltway that they in anyway contributed to this situation, then conspiracy charges can also follow. State conviction are not subject to Presidential pardons.
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I thought Mike Huckabee had a good proposal. The foreign aid promised to these same Latin countries to combat gang should be used to deport them so their host nations can deal with their own problems.
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There's more to this. No way 65k plus families just give up their kid(s) without being incentivized and some kind of local assurance. Either someone put the word out through Coyotes, who aren't cheap, and/or some trusted local entity was selling this, like an NGO. That's the real story that needs to be followed. We already know they were setting up infrastructure in January.
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.
[THEGUARDIAN] Now that cocktails in jam jars have made it to EastEnders, what's next for those who would be 'alternative'?
To eliminate the tornado threat for the entire Tornado Alley, we may need to build three great walls. The first one should be close to the northern boundary of the Tornado Alley, maybe in North Dakota. The second one should be in the middle, maybe in the middle of Oklahoma and going to east. The third one can be in the south of Texas and Louisiana. 
[Pakistan Today] Emirates Airlines has imposed a lifetime travel ban on Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri 
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