Authorities have charged a 30-year-old man with capital murder, after they say he ambushed a Texas county sheriff’s deputy at a suburban Houston gas station in an attack motivated by "absolute madness." Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman identified the man in a news conference Saturday afternoon as Shannon J. Miles, who is in police custody.
Miles — who has a criminal history that includes convictions for resisting arrest and disorderly conduct with a firearm — was arrested less than 24 hours after authorities said he ambushed Darren Goforth, a 10-year veteran of the Harris County Sheriff's Office, at a suburban Houston Chevron station.
"I am proud of the men and women that have worked swiftly to apprehend the responsible person who posed a significant threat to both law enforcement and the community at large," Hickman told reporters Saturday. "Our deputies return to the streets tonight to hold a delicate peace that was shattered last evening."
Hickman said the motive for the killing had not been determined but investigators would look at whether Miles, who is black, was motivated by anger over recent killings elsewhere of black men by police that have spawned the "Black Lives Matter" protest movement. Goforth was white.
Took the media long enough to get there...
"I think that's something that we have to keep an eye on," Hickman said. "The general climate of that kind of rhetoric can be influential on people to do things like this. We're still searching to find out if that's actually a motive."
Hickman said investigators are working on the assumption "that he was a target because he wore a uniform."
In a statement Saturday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said "heinous and deliberate crimes against law enforcement will not be tolerated" and that the state "reveres the men and women in law enforcement who put their lives on the line every day to protect and serve their communities."
In an earlier news conference on Saturday, Hickman and District Attorney Devon Anderson both had strong words for what they said was an unprovoked attack targeting law enforcement, while touching on the recent climate of tension between civilians and law enforcement.
"We've heard black lives matter, all lives matter. Well, cops' lives matter, too," Hickman said.
Anderson said that there are bad individuals in every field, but that "there should not be open warfare on law enforcement officers."
Goforth, 47, was near a gas pump when the gunman approached him from behind and opened fire, Harris County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Ryan Sullivan told The Associated Press.
Hickman said Goforth was a “dedicated law enforcement officer” who had been a on the force for 10 years. He had a wife and two children, 12 and 5.
"In my 45 years in law enforcement, I can't recall another incident so cold-blooded and cowardly," Hickman said.
Sheriff’s office spokesman Deputy Thomas Gilliland said Goforth had traveled to the Chevron station where the shooting happened, after responding to a routine car accident.
“He was pumping into his vehicle, and the male suspect came up behind him and shot the deputy multiple times,” Gilliland told the Houston Chronicle. “The deputy fell to the ground, the suspect came over and shot the deputy again multiple times as he lay on the ground.”
Fox affiliate KRIV reported Goforth was shot once in the head and three times in the back.
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Miles also has a lengthy criminal record.
In July 2005 he was arrested for criminal mischief. That October he was arrested again and put in jail for eight days for resisting arrest.
In Dec. 2006 he was charged with disorderly conduct with a firearm, a misdemeanor. He was jailed for 10 days on the charge. In May 2007 he was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor for trespassing. The same month he was charged with evading detention. In Jan. 2009 he was charged with resisting arrest.
The investigation is in the early stages, but no reports of jihadi sympathies, cat feces and urine filled apartment, or multi-colored flags as of yet. The anger and rage boxes has been checked however.
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There is no right to scream 'Fire' in a crowded theater. The MSM has long past that line. BTW, 'freedom of the press' was about the technology to spread information, not about an institution engaged in the obstruction, suppression, or manufacture of 'news'.
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Chris, six priors, three of which might be violent (display of weapon, assault, attempt to evade). No convictions that I can see, though.
It's hard to get around the video footage and the vehicle match, though.
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There are blacks who go for the "[Only] black lives matter" rhetoric and consequently view themselves at war with the cops. These thugs are not much different from ISIS--killing and tearing down and destroying the social order. Obama has used the "bully pulpit" to fan these flames. Haven't heard so much from Sharpton these days.
American artist Gino Hollander, suddenly passed away on August 27 in Newport Beach, California with his wife Barbara (Barbi) and close family by his side. He was 91. His son Jim is known for, among other attributes, his war photographs from Afghanistan
Gino Hollander had a full, rich and fiercely individualistic artistic life. He was part of the original 10th Mountain Division serving in the Italian campaign of WWII and was twice wounded, and decorated. After leaving his family business of A. Hollander & Sons, he moved to Greenwich Village, NYC in the 1950s where he met his second wife Barbi and joined her in the world of both documentary and commercial film making. In the early 1960s, Eugene Forman Hollander, who was then renamed Gino by Barbi, made the decision to leave film and taught himself to paint. He developed his own style of 'figurative abstract expressionism', and shortly thereafter opened the first of many Hollander Galleries, on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village.
A year later, Gino moved his young family to Spain, landing on the Costa del Sol in October 1962. They settled on the outskirts of the budding Mediterranean coastal town of Torremolinos, where he soon opened an art gallery. Shortly after, he opened another in Marbella, and began his 30-year love affair with Spain.
Fascinated with Spanish culture and history, he took an instant particular interest in the both the world of 'toreo,' or bullfighting, and also in the Spanish lure of horse riding. The family traveled to run with the bulls in Pamplona many times, and also began taking part in the horse fairs in Sevilla and Malaga. In 1973, Gino and his children crossed the length of Spain on horseback traveling from Malaga to Pamplona. In the late 1960's he built his dream house inland from the Costa del Sol, outside a pueblo called Pizarra. Eventually he built a personal museum at the home, called Cortijo de las Yeguas, where visitors could touch, feel and share in Spain's cultural past. His vast collection of artifacts ranging from stone flints of the pre-historic ages to Roman-era glass and pottery, up to more current antique Spanish furniture - all mixed with his paintings and smaller works on paper. It was given to the pueblo of Pizarra where it is still on display in a museum.
He opened other Hollander Galleries through the years on Madison Avenue in New York City, in London, Toronto, and in the early 1970s in Soho, NYC.
Gino and Barbi left southern Spain in the early 1990s, choosing to live in the western USA to be closer to their children. He settled in Aspen, Colorado, home of his teenage memories serving in the famed 10th Mountain Division at Camp Hale. He immediately fell in love with the high country of the Rocky Mountains. He took over 500 trips into the back-country, frequently camping adjacent to his snowmobile at elevations above 10,000 ft. He continued skiing well into his 70s, and when the snows melted, he would turn to tennis. He was an avid player as a teenager, winning titles in New Jersey, and continued well into his 80s, often times hitting a ball while connected to an oxygen tank in a backpack.
After nineteen years as a fixture in Aspen, he moved at his doctor's insistence down to sea level and settled in Ojai, California -- a place once again well suited to his individual spirit and love of wilderness. Gino and Barbi lived and painted in Ojai with family constantly visiting for some six years before moving to Newport Beach earlier this year. The doors to their animal filled homes were always open, and Gino would doodle or draw anyone in front of his vision, often giving away his works to those who visited. He contributed untold canvases to benefit charities.
He was an extremely prolific artist, but above all a man, a father and a grandfather, who will be remembered, cherished and loved as a person determined to set his own direction and goals -- never settling for anything less than expressing himself directly through through his hands and his art. That is what he wanted and took from life.
He will be greatly missed by all who knew him and by those he touched and inspired to follow their dreams with the same simple logic that he embodied throughout his long life of adventures -- to enjoy life.
Notice by: Jim Hollander, Lise Hollander Kane Cohen, Siri Hollander, Scott Hollander
His Museum in Spain:
Aspen Vets GH Grass Roots - 4 parts on Gino Hollander
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] An 80-year-old Venezuelan woman died, possibly from trampling, in a scrum outside a state supermarket selling subsidized goods, the opposition and media said on Friday.
The melee at the store in Sabaneta, the birthplace of former Venezuelan supremo Hugo Chavez, was the latest such incident in the South American nation where economic hardship and food shortages are creating long queues and scuffles.
The opposition Democratic Unity coalition said Maria Aguirre died and another 75 people were maimed - including five security officials - in chaotic scenes when National Guard troops sought to control a 5,000-strong crowd with teargas.
"Due to the shortage of food ... the desperation is enormous," local opposition politician Andres Camejo said, according to the coalition's website. It published a photo of an elderly woman's body lying inert on a concrete floor.
Camejo said thieves had also attacked the crowd, members of which were seeking to buy cheap food on offer at an outlet of the state's Mercal supermarket chain in Barinas state.
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Reads like Wal-Mart when there is a Christmas sale.
From 20 Committee:
Today the office of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko released via Twitter important details about the organization and structure of Russia’s occupying army in Southeastern Ukraine. The order of battle (ORBAT) information is clearly derived from a lot of intelligence, especially SIGINT (I say this as someone who used to do ORBAT intelligence for a living: this is well done).
The organization of the 1st and 2nd Corps, no surprise, corresponds exactly to the standard tables of organization and equipment (TO&E) of Russian Ground Forces. There are several maneuver brigades (“motor rifle” is the Russian term for mechanized in NATO parlance) supported by independent regiments and battalions. As Kyiv has announced, the 35,000 troops belonging to “DNR” and “LNR” forces are bolstered by 9,000 reservists. While some forty percent of the troops are locals, the rest are Russians plus a few mercenaries and foreign volunteers.
The senior command staff are exclusively Russian officers assigned to the 1st and 2nd Corps — officially they are “not there” of course — while the operation is run, logistically and command-wise, from neighboring Russia.
To anybody with a decent memory, this closely resembles the relationship during the 1992-95 Bosnian War, when the Bosnian Serb Army (VRS), while consisting largely of local rank-and-file troops, had most of its command, and nearly all of its financing and logistics, coming from neighboring Serbia and its military — which, in practice treated the VRS as merely as an extension of itself, as in fact it was.
Needless to add, the “DNR” and “LNR” militaries would not last twenty-four hours without constant command and logistical support from Putin’s military. They are an extension of Russian Ground Forces and should be treated as such by the West. It’s time to end, once and for all, any fiction about “rebels” — these are Russian-controlled forces, led by Russian officers, supplied with Russian guns and ammunition, that are waging war inside Ukraine.
Kudos to Kyiv for putting this important information out there as an aid to understanding what’s really going on in their country.
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So evidently 2 Russian Army mechanized corps sort of "fell off the back of a truck" somewhere and ended up in the Donets Basin and Crimea.
I'm glad we cleared that up.
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A Russian corps is usually the size of a division, the way the Russians have always brigaded their units dating back to Napoleon.
[DAWN] A two-star general, who formerly headed the military-run National Logistics Cell (NLC) and was sacked from the army in connection with a multi-billion rupee investment scam, is likely to challenge his dismissal.
Retired Brig Wasaf Khan Niazi, a former judge advocate general (JAG) of the army and counsel for Major General Khalid Zaheer Akhtar, said his client may file an appeal against the dismissal order.
He said the former general's dismissal was not in accordance with the Pakistain Army Act (PAA) and can be challenged at the appropriate forum.
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[DAWN] The provincial education department of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... on Saturday terminated more than 400 ghost teachers across the province as part of an ongoing scrutiny regarding ghost employees.
The ghost employees were drawing their salaries from the districts of Quetta, Panjgor, Killa Abdullah, Pishin, Kharan, Dera Bugti and other areas of the province.
"Inquiry committees were established across the province to detect fake and ghost teachers," said the provincial secretary of education, Saboor Kakar.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Two Indian sisters have been sentenced to be raped and then paraded naked as punishment for their brother running off and, potentially impregnating a married woman.
An unelected all-male village council in India has ordered that 23-year-old Meenakshi Kumari and her 15-year-old sister are raped.
The 'sentence' was handed down as punishment after their brother eloped with a married woman.
The horrific order was revealed by Amnesia Amnesty International. The rights body has launched a petition calling on India's authorities intervene immediately and protect the two sisters.
The petition has gathered considerable support for its demand as 39,116 people signed it thus far.
The sisters are from a village in Baghpat district in India. There, on 30 July, an unelected all-male village council (khap panchayat) ordered that they be raped and paraded naked, their faces blackened, as punishment for the actions of their brother.
The sisters and their family had already fled the village in May for fear of reprisals for their brother's actions -- he eloped with a married woman from a dominant caste (Jat). Shortly after they left their house was ransacked.
Sumit Kumar, another brother of Meenakshi says that members of the Jat caste are powerful members of the village council, 'the Jat decision is final'.
His family fears for their lives if they return.
Meenakshi has filed a petition with the Supreme Court asking for protection, and her father has lodged a complaint with two national bodies saying that both his family has been harassed not just by the family of the eloped woman (who are of the dominant caste and therefore influential), but also by the police.
They are also worried about the safety of the Jat woman, who is now thought to be pregnant with Meenakshi's brother's child.
Unelected village councils such as this are widespread in parts of India. More often than not they are made up of older men from dominant castes, who prescribe rules for social behaviour and interaction in villages.
The supreme court of India has described them as 'kangaroo courts' and branded their decrees illegal, yet in some states they continue to operate -- and their punishments are carried out.
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What's the matter? They are just practicing their local culture which, as we've been told over and over, is just as good if not better than anything Western Civilization has produced.
Oh and this isn't a war on women.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well! We also have a custom. When men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks, and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre. Beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours." Gen. Sir Charles Napier
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Perverted justice. The district is 72.11% Hindu and Muslim 26.56%. The Jat caste is made up of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh faiths. I wonder if the caste is tipping towards Islam and Sharia Law?
[Kanuk Free Press] Citizens Commission on Benghazi member Admiral James "Ace" Lyons (Ret.) appeared on The Daily Ledger show on the One America News Network earlier this week to discuss the Iran nuclear deal and its potential disastrous consequences for the United States.
"This [Iran] deal goes back to when President Obama was candidate Obama, about the time June 4 of 2008, at which time he opened up a secret communication channel to the Ayatollah regime in Tehran," said Admiral Lyons on The Daily Ledger. Obama's message to the Ayatollahs was that Iran would get a better deal under his presidency than under then-President George W. Bush, he said.
"Let me tell you, this deal is a total sellout," he said. "But of course for Secretary [John] Kerry... he has no problem with this since this is the second time he has sold out his country."
"On 7 February 2015, Lyons controversially claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood had succeeded in infiltrating every US security agency under the Obama presidency during a National Press Club conference. He also alleged that John Brennan, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was a Muslim convert. In addition, Lyons alleged that the Muslim Brotherhood was planning to start up a political party to influence American domestic politics."
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Lyons controversially claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood had succeeded in infiltrating every US security agency under the Obama presidency. He also alleged that John Brennan, the Director of the CIA, was a Muslim convert.
People still believe that Champ isn't pitching for the other team?
[Daily Caller] In announcing a nuclear deal with Iran, President Barack Obama echoed many of the same sentiments of another Democratic president announcing a similar deal.
On Oct. 21, 1994, President Bill Clinton announced the "Agreed Framework," a deal negotiated with North Korea to end their pursuit of a nuclear weapon from the exact spot in the White House where President Obama announced his deal with Iran.
"Before I take your questions, I'd like to say just a word about the framework with North Korea that Ambassador Gallucci signed this morning. This is a good deal for the United States," Clinton said. "North Korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program. South Korea and our other allies will be better protected. The entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons."
President Obama said, "Iran is permanently prohibited from pursuing a nuclear weapon under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which provided the basis for the international community's efforts to apply pressure on Iran."
Clinton concluded his remarks by saying, "The United States and international inspectors will carefully monitor North Korea to make sure it keeps its commitments. Only as it does so will North Korea fully join the community of nations."
"Inspectors will have access to Iran's entire nuclear supply chain -- its uranium mines and mills, its conversion facility, and its centrifuge manufacturing and storage facilities," Obama assured the world. "This ensures that Iran will not be able to divert materials from known facilities to covert ones. Some of these transparency measures will be in place for 25 years."
On Oct. 9, 2006, North Korea took the world by surprise when they conducted their first successful test of a nuclear weapon. As we all know, those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it.
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
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] An 80-year-old Venezuelan woman died, possibly from trampling, in a scrum outside a state supermarket selling subsidized goods, the opposition and media said on Friday.
[Kanuk Free Press] Citizens Commission on Benghazi member Admiral James "Ace" Lyons (Ret.) appeared on The Daily Ledger show on the One America News Network earlier this week to discuss the Iran nuclear deal and its potential disastrous consequences for the United States.
