[Breitbart] Three marijuana growing operations have been discovered near the houses where a family of 8 was murdered "execution style" in rural Ohio.
While the drug trafficking has not been publicly singled out as a motive by authorities nor have they publicly mentioned cartels or organized crime, investigators have called the murders a "complex operation".
"This was a pre-planned execution of eight individuals, it was a sophisticated operation," said Ohio Attorney General Mike Devine in a televised interview aired by Fox News. "Those who carried it out did everything they could to hinder the investigation and their prosecution."
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They know who it is.
You can tell by the tarps over that trailer.
This is a bigger thing than a mass shooting
This is big gang stuff - American style.
You may catch the culprits - you will. But this is bigger than that Trailer.
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related murder story: it appears that at least 2 people that spoke out about the Flint MI water issue died of lead poisoning of the other kind; one of the water plant foreman and the woman that was the driving force behind he federal court action.
Bubble burst: Florida man using "hydropod" at sea rescued
Authorities say a Florida man bidding to reach Bermuda in an inflatable bubble has been voluntarily rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard. Coast Guard Petty Officer Mark Barney said that long-distance runner Reza Baluchi
Oh? Most of the Baluchis we read about are shooting up The Army of the Pure.
was picked up Sunday off Florida and his "hydropod" was being towed to shore.
Barney says the man set out from Pompano Beach on Saturday despite receiving an April 15 letter from the Coast Guard warning him not to depart. The Coast Guard said it had reviewed Baluchi's plan and determined it to be unsafe.
Baluchi tried to make a similar attempt to reach Bermuda in 2014 and had to be rescued. He was picked up that time about 70 nautical miles east of St. Augustine.
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...Darwin calls to him, the siren song too great to resist. Who are we, mere mortals, to stop ol' Reza from answering the summons?
Mike
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The death toll from Ecuador’s devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake last week has risen to 654 people, the country’s emergency management authority said on Saturday.
Last Saturday’s quake, the worst in nearly seven decades, injured around 16,600 people and left 58 missing along the country’s ravaged Pacific coast. One hundred and thirteen people were rescued from damaged buildings.
“These have been sad days for the homeland,” President Rafael Correa said during his weekly television broadcast earlier on Saturday. “The country is in crisis.”
Several strong tremors and more than 700 aftershocks have continued to shake the country since the major quake, sparking momentary panic but little additional damage. Tremors are expected to continue for several weeks.
With close to 7,000 buildings destroyed, more than 25,000 people were living in shelters. Some 14,000 security personnel were keeping order in quake-hit areas, with only sporadic looting reported.
Survivors in the quake zone were receiving food, water and medicine from the government and scores of foreign aid workers, although Correa has acknowledged that bad roads delayed aid reaching some communities.
Correa’s leftist government, facing mammoth rebuilding at a time of greatly reduced oil revenues for the OPEC country, has said it would temporarily increase some taxes, offer assets for sale and possibly issue bonds abroad to fund reconstruction. Congress will begin debate on the tax proposal on Tuesday.
Correa has estimated damage at $2 billion to $3 billion. Lower oil revenue has already left the country of 16 million people facing near-zero growth and lower investment.
The country’s private banking association said on Saturday its member banks would defer payments on credit cards, loans and mortgages for clients in the quake zone for three months, to help reconstruction efforts.
[NYTIMES] Ebru Umar, a Dutch journalist, wrote a column last week critical of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , and his government’s growing crackdown on freedom of expression. She later took to Twitter, criticizing supporters of Mr. Erdogan and using a profanity.
On Saturday night, the police arrived at her summer home in Turkey and took her in for questioning for insulting Mr. Erdogan, a crime in Turkey. Ms. Umar was released from custody on Sunday, she said on Twitter, but was barred from leaving the country.
She is the latest on a growing list of journalists, academics, cartoonists and others -- nearly 2,000 cases have been filed in Turkish courts -- who have faced the Turkish justice system for insulting Mr. Erdogan. The crime carries a sentence of four years in prison. Ms. Umar was detained just as European leaders, including Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... , the German chancellor, and Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, were wrapping up a visit to Turkey to highlight progress in its pact with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... over the migrant crisis.
Turkey’s clampdown on the news media has increasingly become intertwined with Europe’s attempts to cooperate with Turkey on the migrant issue. European leaders, especially Ms. Merkel, are facing criticism that they are betraying European values in a bid to win over Mr. Erdogan.
Turkey has seemed to extend its crackdown beyond its borders. Ms. Merkel, for instance, was highly criticized in her own country for allowing a case to proceed against a German comedian who read a profanity-laced, satirical poem about Mr. Erdogan on television. Turkey filed a formal complaint under a rarely used German law that prohibits insulting foreign leaders.
Late Friday, Ms. Merkel reacted for the first time to criticism of how she had handled the affair. She defended her decision to allow further investigation by prosecutors, but said she regretted saying she shared the view of the Turkish authorities that the poem was offensive. "Looking back, that was a mistake," she said. "The impression arose that freedom of opinion and freedom of the press were not important. They are important to me and will remain so."
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[Huffpoo] Conservative billionaire Charles Koch called Donald Trump’s support of a registry for Muslims "reminiscent of Nazi Germany" in an interview that aired on Sunday.
Koch said Trump’s proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the country is "antithetical to our approach," but he has a real problem with Trump’s support of using a database to track Muslims in the country. "Our approach".... meaning whom ?
"That’s reminiscent of Nazi Germany. I mean that’s monstrous, as I said at the time," the Koch Industries CEO told ABC News.
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....he has a real problem with Trump’s support of using a database to track Muslims in the country.
A helpful DoJ DB already exists. A simple MOD to the existing SW contract and the addition of a Counterterrorism category appears to be all that is needed.
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Personally, I'm in favor of implanting every Muslim in the world with a device monitoring noradrenaline level in their blood. Once the level passes a predetermined threshold, the device induces an artificial epileptic fit.
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You don't think someone these days has databases on all sorts of categories of people? If you do, you live in a fantasy land. You've been sliced and diced by data mining for all sorts of political and commercial IT outfits.
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Trump has refused numerous opportunities to clarify his position such as to include national origin or specific political ideology. Make no mistake. Trump's proposals are based solely on religious affilliation. Guess what - that is reminiscent of Nazi Germany.
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So... somehow making a government sponsored watch list of people based on Ideology aka Personal Belief, or rather your personal thought on a matter(Islam), is somehow acceptable? I remember when Rantburg was all up in arms about Militia's getting put on onto Terror-lists for being Pro Second-amendment.
And make no mistake, I am against Islam as a vast (Oh so VAST) majority of it's adherents practice it. But this opens the door to official lists of, say, Christians. Or Atheists. Or "Warming Deniers". It's all an ideology socialists could argue. And with the courts how they are, I'd rather not risk that.
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DG, replace "religion" with "ideology" and Trump's position is American as an apple-pie.
Ahhh, very convenient. But Trump's proposal is for "ALL Muslims". Again, even when given the chance, Trump didn't qualify his comments to distinguish between religion and ideolgy. But I suspect should Trump get the nomination his supporters will blindly give him a mulligan as he embarks on his "C'mon, You know what I meant" tour to explain away his foolish comments. And BTW, Koch's comparison wasn't between Travel bans and Death camps. It's about goverments restricting the populace (at any level) based solely on religion.
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But Trump's proposal is for "ALL Muslims"./em>
Yes, they all share Muslim ideology.
It's about gover[n]ments restricting the populace (at any level) based solely on religion.
(a) Would it really hurt you DepotGuy, to spell check your posts---you just ask your browser to do it?
(b) Sovereign governments have not just a right, but an obligation toward their subjects/citizens to restrict such access.
(c) You mean like Saudis not letting Christians in?
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One thing Koch has learned from the NAZIs is the Big Lie. You get everyone you can to keep repeating over and over again through every available media outlet that Donald Trump is a NAZI and people start believing it. It is, of course, a damn lie. It's also intellectual laziness. Koch doesn't bother with logical arguments, he just says NAZI and he thinks that covers it. Lazy and deceitful.
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The media has just been waiting for the results of the primary before using the Nazi card.
[Daily Caller] A plane now used by press corps following Hillary Clinton around was once boarded by a lot of neked wymn, a new report claims.
However, this isn’t the doing of Bill Clinton.
TMZ reports that the plane relegated to the press who follow Clinton around is registered to one of Dan Bilzerian’s companies Goat Airways LLC. JOBSITE WARNING
[DAWN] Except for Senator Talha Mehmood of the JUI-F, none of the members of the upper house belonging to religious parties, including Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... (JI) chief Sirajul Haq ...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that... , owns a car or have any source of earning.
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h/t Donald Sensing
We are a group of gay/bisexual men and women who have come to the conclusion that the transgender community needs to be disassociated from the larger LGB community; in essence, we ask that organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD, Lambda Legal and media outlets such as The Advocate, Out, Huff Post Gay Voices, etc., stop representing the transgender community as we feel their ideology is not only completely different from that promoted by the LGB community (LGB is about sexual orientation, trans is about gender identity), but is ultimately regressive and actually hostile to the goals of women and gay men.
There are several areas in which the ideology of the trans community is at odds with or actively hostile to that of women and gay men; among the most important are: Doing to us what we did to the normals
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Justice Scalia's 'slippery slope' warning in Lawrence vs Texas comes to pass.
Remember all the arguments against the Equal Rights Amendment. They're coming true as SCOTUS implements that which was constitutionally rejected, because they know 'better'. There was a reason why the Founders demanded a super majority to constitutional changes. We are now reaping the consequences of ignoring that wisdom.
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Milo of Breitbart has suggested that gays are naturally conservative and only sided with the left until they got the gay marriage they wanted. He felt once that was over (and a brief honeymoon) they'd start voting Republican.
Somehow I doubt that but he no doubt knows more about gay opinions than I. This article reminds me of that.
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"Milo of Breitbart has suggested that gays are naturally conservative and only sided with the left until they got the gay marriage they wanted. He felt once that was over (and a brief honeymoon) they'd start voting Republican."
There is absolutely no way. 80% of them are ignorant leftist zombies. I did a study
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I know y'all caught My Name is Cait last night; total propaganda - Republicans H8T US, slander our name, yadda yadda yadda, Bruce kisses someone, they all go poop in public.
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.
Bubble burst: Florida man using "hydropod" at sea rescued
[Daily Caller] A plane now used by press corps following Hillary Clinton around was once boarded by a lot of neked wymn, a new report claims.
