Police are searching for an active shooter who killed six and injured several others in a Saturday night murder spree in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
The suspect reportedly opened fire at a fourth location shortly after midnight Sunday, at OP Avenue and 6th Street near a restaurant where four died, 24 Hour News 8 reported.
Multiple people died in shootings at the Cracker Barrel restaurant in Texas Township and at the Seelye Ford dealership, Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas told News 8.
Four people died at the restaurant, including an eight-year-old.
Two were killed at the car dealership, which is located four miles from the restaurant, police said.
A woman was seriously injured by multiple bullets in a shooting at 5:45pm near the Meadows Townhomes in Richland Township, according to News 8.
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I know, I was just referring to the fact they will play up the "fat white guy" part to try and counter all the black-on-black (or Dem-on-Dem, heh) facts they play down elsewhere.
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Second City Cop is always an interesting read on Chicago crime.
"Warm Weekend
So of course, the carnage count is up"
"On top of the 6 or 8 shot Friday night. HeyJackass (another blog) has the numbers at 2 dead and 20- wounded so far with Sunday yet to come."
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now at 7. little sister lives nearby and her boyfriends daughter wss right in the immediate area and it took about 30 minutes to locat her. smartass teenager didnt bother returning dads call
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As Grunter said. Al Ahram has the details here. Jason Dalton, 45, had no criminal record and passed a background check. He surrendered to police early this morning without a fuss.
[NEWSWEEK] A Virginia judge has ordered "Jackie" of Rolling Stone 's now-retracted expose about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia to appear in court to be deposed.
"The court believes that a one-day, seven-hour deposition will be sufficient," Judge Glen Conrad wrote in a court order this week calling for the woman identified only as Jackie to appear in court on April 5.
The woman will be deposed as part of an ongoing lawsuit filed by Nicole Eramo, an associate dean at the University of Virginia, against Rolling Stone , the magazine's owner, Wenner Media, and the writer of the expose, "A Rape on Campus," Sabrina Rubin Erdely.
Ms. Erdely has written other reports that are demonstrably false. It'll happen here too.
Three days after "A Rape on Campus" was published, the university suspended all fraternities and canceled all fraternal activities. But the article came under scrutiny soon afterward, with the fraternity where the alleged rape was said to have taken place, Phi Kappa Psi, telling news hounds the events described by Erdely never occurred.
The university has yet to apologize to anyone, either...
As new details emerged, the magazine distanced itself from the story. A local police investigation found " no evidence " to support "Jackie's" claims. Rolling Stone retracted the story and asked the Columbia School of Journalism to conduct a review to determine where the magazine went wrong.
Strangely, the media didn't make much of the Columbia report...
In May 2015, Eramo filed suit against the magazine for defamation. Erdely's depiction of Eramo as callous in the face of Jackie's accusations "were not the result of an innocent mistake; they were the result of a wanton journalist who was more concerned with writing an article that fulfilled her preconceived narrative about the victimization of women on American college campuses, and a malicious publisher who was more concerned about selling magazines to boost the economic bottom line for its faltering magazine, than they were about discovering the truth or actual facts," Eramo's attorney wrote.
Jackie has remained anonymous throughout the entire process. She refused to cooperate with the police investigation that found no evidence of her claims.
Ms. Coakley refused to cooperate because she knew the penalty for filing a false police report.
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Jackie has remained anonymous throughout the entire process.
So unlike Joe the Plumber, her records in hands of government personnel will remain secured. One set of rules for me, another set of rules for thee.
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The difference: Joe the Plumber was outed by a state government official who abused her power.
Ms. Jackie Coakley's identity has been protected not by the state, but by the press -- either as a deal in exchange for an interview (per WaPo) or as part of the rape narrative.
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...Seems there are a few possible results here:
1:) Jackie shows up and confesses. (Damned unlikely.)
1a:) Jackie shows up and says UVa is blaming her to cover up the whole thing and make her look bad. (More likely than you might think.)
2:) Jackie shows up and refuses to testify because she feels 'unsafe'. (More likely than anything else; no judge in America today will impose any sanction on her.)
3. Jackie refuses to show up at all. (Roughly as likely as #2)
Mike
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A local police investigation found " no evidence " to support "Jackie's" claims.
That's a little unusual. In my experience, depositions take place either in one of the attorneys' offices (if one has an office in the deponent's area) or a neutral location such as a conference room in a local hotel. (The idea is to keep the deponent from having to pay out money to travel.)
Wonder what that's all about?
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Good catch, Barbara. My experience has been the same
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Wonder what that's all about?
I wonder if the judge wants to see if the "jackie" creature exists, and does not trust any of the parties involved.
[DAWN] SARGODHA: At least seven people, including two children and four women, were killed as lightning struck their house near Puran Chowk area of Punjab's Khushab district in the early hours of Saturday.
A two-storey house collapsed, after it was struck by lightning, trapping its occupants under debris.
At least seven people were killed while eight others were maimed in the incident.
Rescue and emergency teams reached the spot and shifted the victims to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital (THQ) Jauharabad.
A lightning strike is an electric discharge between the atmosphere and an earth-bound object. They mostly originate in the thundercloud and terminate on the ground, called cloud to ground (CG) lightning.
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[NYDAILYNEWS] Filmmaker Michael Moore, in intensive care with pneumonia, asked fans Friday to help get the word out about his latest film, “Where to Invade Next.”
“I'm now worried about my film's release,” he wrote on Facebook Friday. “I can't fly, I have to recover, and in one week (February 12th) this great movie I've put so much of my life into is going to open in theaters -- with little or no assistance from me.
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he was out of hospital by the 5th
but his movie seems to be dead -- it didn't make the top 30 in box office sales in Feb
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Michael has wintered well. He has beaten anorexia.
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I heard he had a brain transplant but the body rejected it.
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I can't fly, I have to recover, and in one week (February 12th) this great movie I've put so much of my life into is going to open in theaters -- with little or no assistance from me."
Fuck you Jabba and your worthless hide. I will open champagne the day you kick your oxygen habit and break the safety seal on your fat suit.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Morocco has decided not host the 2016 Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... meeting, saying on Friday it wanted to avoid giving a false impression of unity in the Arab world.
The annual meeting, which would have been the group's 27th, was initially set for on March 29 in the Moroccan tourist city of Marrakesh but had already been postponed to April 7 at Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's request.
"Amid the lack of important decisions and concrete initiatives to submit to the heads of states, this summit will be just another occasion to approve ordinary resolutions and to pronounce speeches that give a false impression of unity," a statement from the Moroccan foreign ministry said.
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Both sides in this civil war continue to exchange artillery and small arms fire despite a ceasefire, according to Russian language news accounts.
According to the Donetsk ministry of defnese in a news release, Ukrainian military units fired on Russian backed separatists 50 times in the last 24 hours, using mortar, RPG and small arms fire. The report said that Ukrainian fire appeared to come from Opytnoye and western sectors of Donetsk city.
Ukrainian official sources said that the separatists have violated the ceasefire 24 times, firing 82mm mortars and small arms fire at their positions in Krasnogorovka, Peski and Marinka.
According to official Ukrainian reports, Ukrainian troops caught and turned back a separatist probe in Lugansk near Mayorsk and Zaisteyo.
Intense Gun Battles in Gorlovka
According to two separate news reports posted in Russian reserve FSB Colonel Igor Girkin news website, novorusinform.org, long lastly intensive artillery and small arms duels have been taking place over the last 24 hours in Gorlovka, which is north of Donetsk city.
Quoting reports from unidentified local militants, the shooting near Gorlovka began at 1900 hrs Saturday and continued intermittently for nearly three hours. Weapons the militants said were used included mortar fire, tank gunfire and small arms fire. Much of the shooting emanated from Dzherzinsk, which is less than a kilometer from the western outskirts of Gorlovka.
The same article said that fire fights took place in northern Lugansk as well.
A second article said that Ukrainian forces fired on several rebel held areas including Spartak, the airport and western districts of Donetsk city.
Ukrainian press has not described any rebel counterfire in Gorlovka in their news reports, official or not.
Col. Girkin was the main Russian operative in the Russian takeover in Crimea and a major factor in the early stages of the civil war in southeastern Ukraine.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraine by clicking here.
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They want or demand that Beijing cease-n-desist, but Beijing won't.
ION this mostly sunny Guam Monday AM ...
* EX-MVARIETY NKA GUAM DAILY POST > PARACELS BUILDUP A POINTER TO CHINA'S BROADER SOUTH CHINA SEA AMBITION.
As China does in the Paracels [China = Xisha Islands], it may likely do also per the Spratly's [China = Nansha Islands].
* RELATED JAPAN TIMES > BEIJING PARACEL MILITARY BUILDUP SEEN AS PRECURSOR TO SPRATLY AMBITION.
* BIGNEWSNETWORK > CHINA PARACELS BUILDUP MAY BE REPLICATED ON SPRATLYS: SECURITY EXPERTS.
* WORLD NEWS > [Indonesia News] US ACCUSES CHINA OF ABUSING MIGHT, WILL TEST CHINA ON DISPUTED ISLANDS.
Personally, I'm more interested in how the US will "test" China vee Chinese "aggressiveness" = belligerency? vee TAIWAN + EAST CHINA SEA.
* Also from REUTERS > THE NEXT WORLD WAR WILL BE IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA. ASK THUCYDIDES ...
Perhaps not - lest we fegit, THE US = OBAMA ADMIN IS ALREADY BEING CRITICIZED FOR INDIRECTLY OR COVERTLY RECOGIZING CHINA'S CLAIMS BY KEEPING USN WARSHIPS OUTSIDE OF THE ISLANDS' 12-MILE NM LIMITS. As a copnsequence, China has begun aggressively = belligerently? asserting its rights on TAIWAN + AGZ JAPAN in the East China Sea.
Iff anything, + given the Year 2020 NLT 2025 timeframe, where China ideally would like to see the USDOD out of East Asia-WESTPAC = 1/2 of the Pacific ASAP AMAP ALAP, IMO UNLESS THE US SURRENDERS OR CONCEDES VERY QUICKLY ANY WAR IN THE SCS WILL MORE LIKELY THAN NOT BE ONE OF SEVERAL FRONTS OR THEATERS THAT CHINA + PLA WILL FIGHT AT ROUGHLY ONE TIME AGZ US REGIONAL ALLIES + ULTIMATELY AGZ THE US ITSELF.
China has a number of US Regional Allies it needs to put down at roughly the same time - IMO it is nonsensical for China to wage war in the SCS-N-Only-The-SCS but not agz Taiwan andor in the ECS agz its historical + contemporary East Asia rival JAPAN [+ SOKOR], all the while risking that US Regional Allies may become militarily stronger vee China, poten even NUCLEAR, while China per se awaits the outcome of SCS war.
MORESO ALSO GIVEN ...
* NATIONAL INTEREST > WHY NOT A SOUTH KOREAN NUKE?
KJU = Pudgy desires the "status quo" in NE Asia + on the Korean Peninsula to be quickly + forcibly changed ASAP AMAP ALAP n favor of ANTI-CHINA, DE FACTO INTER-KOREAN REUNIFICATION.
IFF A US-CHINA WAR BE NECESSARY TO PREVENT POST-COLLAPSE, DE FACTO CHINESE TAKEOVER OF NOKOR FOR ANY REASON, IN KJU'S MIND SO BE IT - HE'LL START THE WAR HIMSELF.
* BREAKING DEFNSE > FEW CHOICES FOR THE US AS CHINA MILITARIZES THE SOUTH PACIFIC.
[Breitbart] Saturday during Fox News Channel's special coverage of the South Carolina Republican Primary, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) took aim at Breitbart News after he was asked about a report on Breitbart's website that questioned his willingness to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials while crafting the so-called Gang of Eight immigration reform legislation.
The report cited ICE Council president Chris Crane, who is also an active duty ICE officer, who Rubio dismissed as well as Breitbart News.
Vaya con Dios compadre, see ya back in Washington. Try and make a few Senate voting sessions please.
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Rubio is right on this one. Breitbart is tabloid journalism. And the "report" in question is a classic example. Then again the National Enquirer broke the Breck Boy story so who knows.
[Breitbart] GOP frontrunner Donald Trump posted on Twitter that he thought it was "very sad" President Obama did not attend Justice Scalia's funeral and also questioned whether or not he would have attended it if it had been in a Mosque. Air Force One could not land at the The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and Thamsanqa Jantjie was unavailable for the transliterations. Both show stoppers for the Champ.
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Obama is stuck with his foot in the bucket, and Trump's stupidity let him out of it by making it all about what Trump said instead. And what he said is simply blinding stupid and aggressive.
[DAWN] Indian authorities imposed a curfew and issued shoot-on-sight orders in a northern state neighbouring New Delhi Saturday, after spreading caste protests left at least one person dead and troops were deployed, officials said.
Television images showed mobs wielding sticks rampaging through the streets in northern Haryana state, setting fire to a local government minister's house and railway stations, damaging train tracks and blocking two key highways.
The day before police had opened fire on protesters, killing at least one, as the week-long protest by the state's dominant Jat caste, who are demanding quotas for government jobs and education, took a violent turn.
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[DAWN] Rashid Baloch, a member of the Baba Ladla gang in Karachi's Lyari area, was arrested in the Bhana Mari area of Peshawar on Saturday.
Peshawar's Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) and Intelligence Bureau (IB) jointly raided houses in Bhana Mari along Kohat Road and arrested Rashid Baloch, alias 'Chichi' after receiving a tip-off that the gangster was currently in Peshawar, waiting for a new passport to flee abroad.
According to initial investigations, Baloch had fled to Peshawar because of the Rangers-led Karachi operation, which began in 2013.
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[Daily Caller] New York Daily News columnist-activist Shaun King, whose racial background is the subject of some speculation, said during a heated radio interview on Friday that he was "blacker" than black radio host Jason Whitlock.
Whitlock and King met on air to discuss King's recent story about sexual assault allegations made against quarterback Peyton Manning in 1996 when he was a student at the University of Tennessee.
King published a 74-page "statement of fact" by a university trainer, Dr. Jamie Naughright, who alleged that Manning placed his backside, testicles and rectum on her face while she was inspecting his foot.
Whitlock accused King, one of the leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement, of going after Manning because he is white. The Daily News piece ran after King wrote several articles complaining about how the media treated Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton, who is black, after his team's loss to Manning's Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl.
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
Booker T. Washington, My Larger Education, Being Chapters from My Experience (1911), Ch. V: The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob (pg. 118 )
Mr. Washington, from a century ago, knows Mr. Shaun King very well...
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the only thing authentic about Shaun King is that he's a world-class asshole. The NYDN publishing him is more evidence of their moral and economic bankruptcy.
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It was never about integration (the Asians pulled that off and got to be actively discriminated against by the 'progressive' University of California system). It's been about power. The struggle for power among the special interest oligarchy.
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Hey, I've got this idea for a reality TV show to find "Who is the Blackest Man in America?". The hook is you don't need to be a black man to be on the show. Or a man. Or black. You just need to identify as a black man. Have your people call my people.
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Whitlock has been known to deliver a sanctimonious lecture or five or six. Can't think of anyone (well, actually I can) more deserving of a dose of "your plantation cred is lacking, bro..."
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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.
[DAWN] SARGODHA: At least seven people, including two children and four women, were killed as lightning struck their house near Puran Chowk area of Punjab's Khushab district in the early hours of Saturday.
[DAWN] Indian authorities imposed a curfew and issued shoot-on-sight orders in a northern state neighbouring New Delhi Saturday, after spreading caste protests left at least one person dead and troops were deployed, officials said.
[DAWN] Rashid Baloch, a member of the Baba Ladla gang in Karachi's Lyari area, was arrested in the Bhana Mari area of Peshawar on Saturday.
[Daily Caller] New York Daily News columnist-activist Shaun King, whose racial background is the subject of some speculation, said during a heated radio interview on Friday that he was "blacker" than black radio host Jason Whitlock.
