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Amusing fruit! Flies will not duck it;
They like it still more when we chuck it.
We schmeck it, we shuck it;
Some corny folks peck it.
It takes us three hands just to pluck it.
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It was a MAB-14 ex Honduraa showing signs of being in the cooler, which the Chaquita Protocols expressly prohibit. A mature assault bananna Is clothed in brown fleck over golden yellow camo, this is when they are fully functional and apt to infiltrate Fortress Kellogg.
[Rooters] The FBI arrested a 36-year-old San Antonio man on Wednesday accused of being a mob hit man who is suspected in at least three murders and believed to have given the order to have a Texas police officer killed, the FBI said.
Ruben Reyes is accused of fatally shooting three high-ranking members of his own Texas Mexican Mafia on the same day earlier this year, according to an affidavit by an FBI agent working on the case.
"They were ordered killed for their alleged mishandling of $60,000 and making poor decisions in regards to the group's daily operations," said the FBI affidavit, released by federal authorities as Reyes made his initial court appearance.
I'll bet the 'day-to-day' and money-handling techniques by these persons' replacements improved substantially.
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Somebody's been to a 'motivational thinking' seminar, but decided to cut the auditors out of the loop. Then again, he may have hired Accenture to do the whack.
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[IsraelTimes] An experimental Ebola vaccine appears safe and triggered signs of immune protection in the first 20 volunteers to test it, US researchers reported Wednesday.
The vaccine is designed to spur the immune system's production of anti-Ebola antibodies, and people developed them within four weeks of getting the shots at the National Institutes of Health. Half of the test group received a higher-dose shot, and those people produced more antibodies, said the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Some people also developed a different set of virus-fighting immune cells, named T cells, the study found. That may be important in fending off Ebola, as prior research found that monkeys protected by the vaccine also had that combination response.
Stimulating both types of immune response is "a promising factor," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, whose employees led the work.
The researchers reported no serious side effects. But two people who received the higher-dose vaccine briefly spiked fevers, one above 103 degrees Fahrenheit (39 Celsius), which disappeared within a day.
Earlier this month, Fauci told Congress this first-stage testing was promising enough that the US planned much larger studies in West Africa, starting in Liberia in early January, to try to prove whether the vaccine really works.
Scientists are racing to develop ways to prevent or treat the virus that has killed more than 5,600 people in West Africa, most of them in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Wednesday's publication offered scientific details about the initial testing of the vaccine candidate furthest along, one being developed by NIH and GlaxoSmithKline. Additional safety studies are underway here and abroad. A different Canadian-made vaccine also has begun small safety studies.
Many questions remain as larger studies are being designed, including the best dose and how soon protection may begin, cautioned Dr. Daniel Bausch, a Tulane University Ebola specialist who wasn't involved in the study. Plus, monkey research suggests a booster shot will be needed for long-term protection.
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia on Thursday beheaded a Pakistani for heroin smuggling, bringing to nine the number of people from his country executed since mid-October.
Mohammed Rahman Mohammed Asghar had been "tried and found guilty of smuggling a large quantity of heroin into the kingdom", the official Saudi Press Agency said.
The sentence was carried out in the Eastern Province city of Khobar.
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The talks center over whether they should hold the 'ground component' in Turkey, or perhaps Egypt.
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Its becoming increasingly clear that, even iff NATO-EU won't admit it, they may tolerate Russian control or domination of the Black Sea region iff it means keeping the Hard Boyz out of Europe.
Darth Vlad may rant agz the US + NATO-EU, but his real focii is keeping a hard lid on the Hard Boyz.
* FYI MANILA TIMES > NATO UNCONCERNED ABOUT RUSSIAN WARSHIPS IN ENGLISH CHANNEL.
Unofrtunately, the UK Royal Navy is not what it used to be, + better for the Russians to be in the Channel [or simil GUAM-WESTPAC = Rising China], iff La Belle France is going to be under increasing domestic + foreign Hard Boy threat.
* GROONG > [ICH.com] WHY WE NEED A NEW SOVIET UNION?
* SAME > EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION TO BOOST TIES WID SOUTH AMERICA'S LARGEST TRADING BLOC [Mercusor Bloc].
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Speaking of CHINA ... ...
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > JANE'S DEFENCE WEEKLY: CHINA'S NEW DONGFONG-41 ROAD-MOBILE ICBMS AND JL-2 SLBMS TO DEPLOY IN EARLY 2015. CHINESE LR NUCLEAR STRIKES AGZ CONUS + US TERRITORIES FROM SAFETY OF JAPANESE OR EAST ASIAN WATERS. US ABILITY TO DETER CHINESE NUCLEAR STRIKES AGZ JAPAN, ALASKA, + HAWAII SERIOUSLY WEAKENED.
China's PLAN Boomer Subs reached Cold War-era TRIDENT-level capability???
* IIRC TURKEY-DAY GUAMPDN > GUAM VISIT BY JAMES WEBB = indic that China has UNILATERALLY FORCIBLY "ANNEXED" an area off its coasts + close to the Philippines, and as far south as the entrance to the Malaccas???
While the US-World was watching the ISIS, ...
> Iran took over Yemen.
> Putin took over the Crimea, + seemingly still wants to take over select coastal landbridges or land corridors connecting Russia to same.
> China took over the South China Sea.
[AnNahar] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... on Thursday added five separatist groups and 13 individuals to a blacklist for their role in elections this month in rebel-held eastern Ukraine, diplomatic sources said.
The decision taken by the 28 EU ambassadors "responds to the separatist vote which undermined ... the implementation of the Minsk protocol" establishing a ceasefire in the region, one of the sources said.
An EU source said the blacklist calls for imposing asset freezes and travel bans on the 13 individuals, with asset freezes also slapped on the five "entities".
The names of the 18 were not immediately available and would be published on Saturday, according to EU procedure.
The new blacklist adds to the previous one of 23 entities and 119 individuals facing asset freezes and travel bans.
Those include close allies of Russian 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... , Russian oligarchs and rebel leaders.
The new list will be formally agreed in a "written procedure" by the 28 EU member states on Friday and the names published in the Official Journal of the European Union on Saturday, the diplomatic source said.
EU foreign ministers on November 17 gave the green light for the new blacklist against pro-Russian separatists but gave ambassadors until the end of the month to come up with the measures and names.
The ministers stopped short of fresh economic sanctions against Russia, saying there was hope of restarting dialogue with Moscow to end the worst standoff since the Cold War.
The pro-Russian separatists defied the Ukrainian government on November 2 when they held leadership elections in the east of the country that they described as legitimizing their two self-declared independent states.
Russia then said it "respected" the outcome of the elections but conspicuously did not go as far as saying it recognized them.
The EU, Kiev, and the United States all said that the polls had badly damaged the grinding of the peace processor, which was based on giving rebel areas autonomy, not independence.
The EU source said the European ambassadors also heard proposals for "an enhanced ban on investments in Crimea," which Russia annexed from Ukraine in March in defiance of Kiev and the international community.
Discussions will continue within the European Council, which makes up the member states, the source said.
The EU has long been divided over sanctions, initially limiting them to individuals after Russia's annexation of Crimea, then broadening them to target the Russian economy after Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down in July over eastern Ukraine.
Russia has denied backing the rebels but relations with the West are at their worst since the fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago.
[DAWN] An alleged gangster was rubbed out in Kalakot in an 'encounter' on Thursday night, police said.
They added that Fayaz, aka Punjabi, belonging to a gang led by Uzair Baloch in Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... was bumped off by the police in Afshani Gali.
He had been nominated in a murder case of a constable of Rangers killed recently, said City SSP Sheeraz Nazeer.
He was also involved in other assassinations, extortion and kidnapping for ransom cases, added the officer.
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[AnNahar] Two girls found hanging earlier this year in northern India did away with himself and were not gang-raped and murdered as previously thought, federal Sherlocks said Thursday.
The cousins, aged 12 and 14, were found hanging from a tree in an impoverished village in Uttar Pradesh state in May, reigniting international outrage over crimes against women in India.
The girls' families said they were raped and lynched by men from a higher caste after going into the fields at night to relieve themselves because their ramshackle homes did not have toilets.
But after a months-long investigation, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said it "has concluded that it is a case of suicide".
"Based on 40 scientific reports, CBI has concluded that the two minor girls had not been raped and murdered as had been alleged in the (initial police report)," the agency said in a statement.
The Hindustan Times quoted a CBI official earlier Thursday as saying the girls took their own lives "because of family pressure owing to disapproval of their friendship with a villager".
The case had sparked fresh debate about India's treatment of women, less than two years after public anger erupted over the fatal gang-rape of a student on a moving bus in Delhi.
That attack led to tougher laws for rapists and other sex offenders and new policies for police in dealing with the large numbers of assaults against women.
Police locked away Please don't kill me! five men over the case in Uttar Pradesh after the families accused authorities of failing to act because they came from a lower caste.
All five were later released without charge.
Women's rights activists were skeptical about the latest twist in the case and urged the CBI to reinvestigate.
"It must be taken seriously, decisions should not be taken in haste. The CBI should revisit its report and culprits must be punished," Delhi Commission for Women chairwoman Barkha Shukla told news hounds.
The All India Democratic Women's Association said it "did not approve" of the CBI's "theory", and said that many questions were "still unanswered".
Members of the girls' village accused Sherlocks of trying to "brush the case under the carpet".
"They (CBI) are just trying to hide the real truth because they don't want to take pains to find out who killed them and why," neighbor Premwati Devi told Agence La Belle France Presse by phone from Badaun district.
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Detecting in Indian climes
Can bring to light hideous crimes:
The two girls to blame
Were just hiding their shame
After raping themselves several times!
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.
He wrote that Love was drawing his service weapon when Channing, of Fruitvale, Colo. yelled, "It's a banana!"
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia on Thursday beheaded a Pakistani for heroin smuggling, bringing to nine the number of people from his country executed since mid-October.
...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...
