A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck northeast Afghanistan around midnight near the country's borders with Pakistan and Tajikistan, according to the US Geological Survey. The quake, which measured 203.5 kilometres deep, struck about 280 kilometres northeast of the Afghan capital Kabul at 11:44 pm (1914 GMT), the USGS said on its website.
It caused buildings to sway in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, an AFP journalist said, and Twitter users as far away as New Delhi said they felt the quake's impact.
A Pakistani official said that a strong earthquake struck the region, rattling buildings and forcing sleeping residents in the capital, Islamabad, out of their homes. A Twitter user in Peshawar tweeted over a dozen people are hospitalized in the Pakistani city.
In October, a 7.5-magnitude quake ripped across Pakistan and Afghanistan, killing almost 400 people and flattening buildings in rugged terrain that impeded relief efforts.
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They are indeed, g(r)omgoru. I forgot to put a :-) in my previous post, or to mention that I enjoyed it. My apologies. I hadn't thought of you as a Larry Correia fan, though you'd introduced me to both Sarah Hoyt and Latma.
"On one otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window."
Housekeeping Note: Quarterly price reports are next week.
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Prices for pistol ammunition and for rifle ammunition were steady.
Prices for used pistols and for used rifles were mixed.
New Lows:
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.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Quality Made Cartridges, Store Brand, FMJ, Brass, Reloads, .25 per round
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.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, Unchanged (2 Weeks)
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Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Bone Frog Gun Club, TMJ, Aluminum Cased, .20 per round (From Last Week: -.01 After Unchanged (6 Weeks))
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Cheapest, 50 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf Polyformance, FMJ, Steel Cased, .17 per round
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.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Surplus Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .26 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: J&G Sales, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .25 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks))
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.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Vizards Guns and Ammo, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .25 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .37 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .34 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf WPA, steel case, FMJ, .23 per round
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.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
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.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $520 Last Week Avg: $556 (-) ($616 (37 Weeks), $476 (13 Weeks))
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It's Christmas Eve in Japan. Little boys and girls pull on their coats, the twinkle of anticipation in their eyes. Keeping the tradition alive, they will trek with their families to feast at ... the popular American fast food chain KFC.
Christmas isn't a national holiday in Japan--only one percent of the Japanese population is estimated to be Christian--yet a bucket of "Christmas Chicken" (the next best thing to turkey--a meat you can't find anywhere in Japan) is the go-to meal on the big day. And it's all thanks to the insanely successful "Kurisumasu ni wa kentakkii!" (Kentucky for Christmas!) marketing campaign in 1974.
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another interesting Japanese custom, since the 60s, is that the national symphony plays Beethoven's 9th with a huge choir - as many as 5000 - and yes, they sing in German
this is a custom for the civil new year
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Police formally launched on Thursday an inquiry into the death of a 10-month-old girl apparently caused by tight security cordon for Pakistain Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari when he opened a trauma centre at the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... (CHK) a day earlier.
On Wednesday, Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah ordered the South district police to investigate the events and circumstances that led to the death of Bisma, who could not survive due to complications from measles when her father failed to reach the hospital in time.
The shocking images flashed on TV screens of a young man from 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.... running in panic to the CHK with a child wrapped in sheets in his arms as the PPP leader inaugurated the state-of-the-art trauma centre caused countrywide outrage and controversy.
The incident was followed by sharp criticism by the media and opposition political parties and the situation got even worse when certain indifferent statements came from some provincial ministers who, by highlighting dangers to the life of their leader, seemed to belittle the tragic death of the infant.
The trauma on the face of the father, later identified as Faisal Hussain, turned into immense grief when he was informed by doctors at the hospital that Bisma was no more and that the child could have been saved if she had arrived a few minutes early. Officials in the provincial home ministry and police department told Dawn that the inquiry got under way on Thursday and several statements had already been recorded.
Sources said the most important of them all was the statement of the girl's father, which was recorded by senior police officials at his house near Gabol Park in Lyari.
A source in the home department said that Mr Hussain's statement had 'several aspects' which were different from his initial interviews to the media. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... he did not elaborate the claim.
Some sources further claimed that statements of doctors and staff at the emergency department in the CHK had also been recorded. Besides, they added, the inquiry officials had also got hold of some relevant documents.
These papers, said an official at the hospital, pertained to the visitors who arrived at the emergency facility 'before and after' the girl's arrival. The girl was also provided medical aid before her death, he added.
"The hospital's record shows that a number of visitors arrived at the emergency, which makes it even puzzling why the girl's father was denied access [to hospital]," said a provincial government official.
He claimed the emergency department's gate was open and not shut as Mr Hussain had said in his statement after doctors told him his child was dead.
Officials said the report would be submitted to the chief minister on Friday [today].
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Big Shirley was still trying to snatch Nunzio bald-headed. She was already halfway there... a front man for Bilawal House said Mr Bhutto-Zardari's visit lasted just between 15 and 20 minutes and the road to the trauma centre was 'separate from that of the CHK'.
Mr Bhutto-Zardari, soon after the media reported the incident, showed his 'anguish over Bisma's death and said he was personally inquiring into "this heart-breaking incident to ascertain what went wrong". He also ordered the Sindh government to conduct an 'impartial inquiry'.
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h/t Instapundit The date of the report is 11/20/15.
Police on the campus of a taxpayer-funded university in central Michigan have arrested a man for posting a threat against black people on Yik Yak, the anonymous social media app.
The threat declared: "I'm going to shoot every black person I can on campus. Starting tomorrow morning."
The man who police arrested, Emmanuel D. Bowden, is black.
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
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A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck northeast Afghanistan around midnight near the country's borders with Pakistan and Tajikistan, according to the US Geological Survey. The quake, which measured 203.5 kilometres deep, struck about 280 kilometres northeast of the Afghan capital Kabul at 11:44 pm (1914 GMT), the USGS said on its website.
