[Breitbart] The FBI is on the hunt for a Heckler and Koch MP5 10mm and a bullet proof vest that were stolen from an agent’s car in California on January 8 or January 9.
They believe the gun and vest were stolen in "Concord, Orinda or Lafayette." ...or Reno, or Vegas, we simply don't know.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, a fully loaded ammunition magazine was stolen as well.
The MP5 10mm was manufactured by H&K at the FBI’s request. It was a follow-up to H&K’s wildly popular MP5 9mm, and was built after the FBI pushed for a submachine gun in a more powerful round.
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It would be interesting to know more details on the story. Were the vest and H & K left in the trunk? Did the car have any identifying markings such as government plates? Were the FBI agent and car targeted because the perp(s) knew this agent? Where was the car when these items were stolen? This is not the first time this sort of thing has happened. Maybe these items should have had GPS trackers in them--something that worked better than the Fast and Furious tracking devices.
[The American Mirror] An elderly woman demanded a Donald Trump supporter seated next to her be moved, but she quickly found out that’s not how the world works.
Scott Koteskey, in a window seat, posted video on Saturday showing a woman in the middle seat complaining about him to airline personnel.
Just had the craziest experience ever on an airplane:
I’m boarding my flight from Baltimore to Seattle and approach my seat. I had an upgraded seat that I paid a little extra for because of the long 6 hour flight. As I approach my row I smile and motion to the husband and wife sitting in the aisle and middle seat that Imy seat was next to the window. I put my backpack in the overhead and the wife with a very stern voice says to me:
"Did you come here to cheer or to protest?"
"I came here to celebrate democracy ma’am"
... I knew this was going to be a long flight at this point. She then proceeded with: (somewhat paraphrased as my memory allows)
Her: "You put a crazed man in charge of the nuclear codes! You should be ashamed!"
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"Did you come here to cheer or to protest?"
Answering that question was his first mistake.
Alternate answers would have been better, such as:
"no hablo inglés" or "我不懂英语"
I learned that from my bilingual dad, who always answer US panhandlers in Polish.
(Reuters) - A man suspected of leaving a burning propane tank next to a Boston squad car last week was taken into custody after an investigation into the incident, police said on Sunday.
Asim Kieta, 42, was arrested late on Saturday in the city's Charlestown section and charged with possession of an explosive device, arson and assault with intent to murder, among other counts.
Kieta, a Boston native, is homeless and has an extensive police record, Police Commissioner William Evans told a briefing on Sunday. He characterized the act as "deliberate" but said investigators were still uncertain of a motive.
[HERALDNET] Hassan Jamil’s love affair with Donald Trump began in the thick of the American presidential campaign, when he found himself glued to his television screen on the other side of the world each night, transfixed by the billionaire’s “beautiful” hair, commanding presence and magnetic speaking style.
Jamil, who doesn’t speak English, couldn’t understand the Republican nominee’s words but said it didn’t matter. The candidate’s forceful cadence told him everything he needed to know.
The night Trump clinched the presidency, Jamil made a decision that took his pregnant wife by surprise.
“I decided that if my wife gave birth to a boy, I would 100 percent name him Trump,” he said.
Two weeks later, on Nov. 23, Hassan’s wife gave birth not only to a baby boy but also to what appears to be a burgeoning Kurdish legend.
His name: Trump Jamil Hassan – a.k.a. “Little Trump.”
Jamil, a 25-year-old father of three and Kurdish peshmerga fighter, said he was proud of his decision. “What I like most and admire about Donald Trump is that he’s a confident man and a successful businessman. He became a leader because he has self-confidence, otherwise he wouldn’t be president.”
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[Al Jazeera] The Gambia ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain... 's ex-leader Yahya Jammeh has flown out of the country he ruled for 22 years and into exile, bringing an end to a protracted political crisis following presidential elections last month.
The longtime ruler refused to step down ...Hell no! The money's too good!... after a December 1 vote in which opposition leader Adama Barrow was declared the winner, triggering weeks of tension as West African leaders threatened to use military force to oust him if he failed to step down.
Jammeh boarded a small, unmarked plane at an airport in the capital, Banjul, late on Saturday, alongside Guinea's President Alpha Conde after two days of negotiations over a departure deal.
He landed in Conakry, Guinea's capital, but set off again for Equatorial Guinea, where he will remain in exile, the president of the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS), Marcel Alain de Souza, told journalists
"No legislative measures" would be taken that would infringe the "dignity, security, safety and rights" of Jammeh or his family, ECOWAS said in a joint declaration with the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... and United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Jammeh could return to The Gambia when he pleased, the statement added, and property "lawfully" belonging to him would not be seized.
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[REUTERS] NAIROBI - A group of teenage boys who posted a video online of themselves raping two girls must not be allowed to evade jail by paying for their crime in camels, campaigners said, in a case that has sparked outrage in the conservative Horn of Africa country.
In the attack last month, six teenage boys forced the girls, aged 14 and 16, into a car and drove them close to the Æthiopian border where they stripped and raped them, taking photographs and video, according to activists counseling the victims.
Authorities in the northern region of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... have nabbed Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! five suspects over the attack and are tracking down the sixth.
"It's inhuman what those maidens have been through, the way they have been raped, tortured, stabbed," said Hawa Aden Mohammed, executive director of the Galkayo Center for Peace and Development (GECPD), which is helping the girls.
Rape is pervasive and often goes unpunished in much of Somalia, where decades of conflict have fueled a culture of violence and weakened institutions meant to uphold the law.
Traditionally, rape victims are forced to accept compensation - often in the form of camels or livestock - and marry their assailants in a centuries-old practice designed to end war between rival clans.
But graphic images of the gang-rape, shared on Facebook, have shocked Somalis, prompting an outpouring of sympathy for the victims and donations from hundreds of people for the 16-year-old and her family.
According to Somali Faces, a platform set up by Somalis in the diaspora, more than 9,000 pounds ($11,000) was raised in two days to help the girl, who has been forced to flee to a different city for fear of being ostracized by her community.
"SEVERE PUNISHMENT"
Faiza Jama Mohammed, head of the Nairobi office of the women's rights advocacy group Equality Now, said the attack highlighted the plight of thousands of Somali women.
"It has been happening silently to many women and girls," Mohammed told the Thomson Rooters Foundation by phone.
"Only now that it has escalated to the level of being shared through the internet, it became a big issue."
Women across Somalia are often reluctant to report rape for fear of being denounced as impure and immoral and rejected by their families.
Equality Now's Mohammed said a crowd of hostile men came to the hospital where the girls were being treated, demanding their release.
"The hospital was under siege," she said. "That gives a red flag in terms of how the community is normalizing this."
Clan elders initially proposed that the perpetrators' families pay each of the girls' families 100 camels in compensation - an offer they rejected, GECPD said.
"We have refused to allow traditional elders to intervene," Mohammed Ali Farrah, director of Puntland's justice ministry, told the Thomson Rooters Foundation.
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[UPI] -- Supermarket chain Kroger Co. announced Monday it is hiring to fill about 10,000 permanent positions in 2017.
The Cincinnati-based company said in a statement its workforce grew by over 12,000 in 2016. The available positions are all in its supermarket divisions in nearly 3,000 retail food stores, under a variety of names, in 35 states and the District of Columbia. Over 443,000 people are currently employed at Kroger and its subsidiaries, which include pharmacies, convenience stores, jewelry stores and gas stations.
The company said 88,000 permanent positions were created in the past eight years, and Tim Massa, Kroger's vice president of human resources, said, "Kroger's growth trajectory continues to create opportunities for our people to advance their careers." Apologies in advance with regard to the 'Go Krogering' jingle mind worm.
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You may not think 'bagging' is much of a job until you don't have one, and unemployment has run out. Excellent employee discount on many items I'm told and consideration for 'challenged' applicants.
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I wonder how much of this is driven by removal (or pending removal) of various regulatory impediments like the humorously-named Affordable Care Act?
"PRESIDENT TRUMP will demand Brussels abandons plans for an EU Army if it wants the US is to continue its support for Nato. Senior British officers serving at the Pentagon have been briefed that one of the new administration’s top priorities will be to "sweep away" plans championed by Germany and France."
”We have been told quite clearly that, in an environment in which the political temperature in Eastern Europe is high and fiscal pressure on budgets is increasing, there can only be one joint force and that is Nato,” he said.
“Senior US officers directing future strategy want to see more delivery from European nations. There is grave concern about the intent and growing talk of an EU Army, which appears to draw resources away from the Alliance.”
Burden sharing by Europe is expected feature highly during Theresa May’s visit with Trump next month, though Britain is one of only five members meeting spending targets.
Despite comments by President Trump calling Nato “obsolete”, new US defence secretary Gen James Mattis affirmed America’s commitment to the Alliance – and reinforced concerns against Russia.
“We have a long list of times we’ve tried to engage positively with Russia. We have a relatively short list of successes in that regard,” he told Congress on Friday.
While European defence spending is the primary concern, insiders warned that Trump would also be gauging Europe’s “boots on the ground” commitments.
“President Trump is a numbers man. Defence spending is one thing, but when he meets with Nato chiefs in Brussels later this year, he will do the math: the US is deploying almost six [brigades] in Europe. How does this stack with Europe’s commitment? The US and Germany are playing their part but what about the rest?”, said another source close to the administration.
Last night Ian Brzezinski, resident senior fellow with the Washington DC-based Atlantic Council think tank, said: “Where the EU is most effective is in leveraging its $17 trillion economic weight and in fostering economic development and democratic reform.
“When it develops military command structures and other military capacities it is institutionalizing duplications that serve no benefit.
“Nato is unsurpassed when it comes to so-called putting lead on a target and interoperability. The power of Nato-EU collaboration is found in their complimentarity, not redundancy.
He added: “With the appointment of Gen Mattis, a big supporter of Nato, as defence secretary, and the current Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Gen Curtis Scaparrotti, President Trump has a hammer and anvil with which to accelerate Nato’s transformation. “
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Glad to see Trump on the job and working hard. Looks like he is going to have to find a way of dealing with a media battle for the next 4 or 8 years. He will get no quarter from these little dogs nipping at his heels--these agitpropists of the left.
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Come to think of it, why not revert to the old laws regarding ownership of news paper, radio and television stations.
Used to be the law would only let a corporation own one tv station, maybe one radio station and if only one of the two station is owned, a newspaper company. None of this media conglomerate BS that's going on now.
[HEATST] The victim, who is reported to have possibly sustained life-threatening injuries, is currently being treated at the Harborview Medical Center. Police state that the 34-year-old male received a gunshot wound to the abdomen. Little else is known of the victim’s identity at this point.
The suspect who fired the gun turned himself in and was locked away Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! on Saturday. He was accompanied by another individual. Both individuals were released later that day.
"Following investigation of the details surrounding the incident, and in consultation with the prosecuting attorney’s office, the suspects were released pending further investigation. No suspects remain outstanding," University police said in a statement.
The Seattle Times reports that law-enforcement officials said the shooter claims that the man he shot was "some type of white supremacist." Friends of the injured man say he isn’t a white supremacist, and that the tattoo identifying him as a racist is an anti-swastika symbol--a black swastika surrounded by a red circle with a slash through it. Antifa websites also identified the victim as a "comrade" of the left-leaning movement.
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individuals were released later that day.
So, 'self-defense' but carrying on campus should be a federal firearms violation.
The story is now rancid, but comment poster 'Barry' nails the bottom line:
[LI] Trump's support comes from all across the country. Traveling is a considerable expense. Obambi could get the progs located just around DC and fill the place up. they are close by, either don’t work or work for the gov.
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Crowd size is such a lefty made-up bogus issue. Most of Trump's support came from between the East and West coasts; supporters are not no likely to travel to an inauguration for work or travel costs reasons. The area around Washington is largely "blue" and has been increasingly so for a few decades. It was a rainy day during the ceremony. The crowd size was larger than Obama's 2nd inauguration but not as large as for his first inauguration. Reagan had huge crowds but so what? Many supporters watched on cell phones, computers, TV and cable. The only number that matters is 306 electoral votes. The left needs to go to group therapy and get over the outcome of the election--in other words grow up; put your big boy and girl panties on--whichever you choose to wear--your call.
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JohnQC nailed it. Interesting is the long distance viewership of the thing, for those, like me, who never intended to attend. The Washington Times looked into the numbers.
Akamai Technologies — which provides delivery of video content to major news organizations, corporations, retailers and organizations around the world — has this to report: “Video streaming coverage of the 2017 Presidential Inauguration is the largest single live news event that the company has delivered,” calling the event “a new benchmark for live video traffic” which bested such events as the Rio Olympics and the 2016 Euro soccer tournament.
Their measurements are precise. The coverage reached a peak of 8.7 terabytes per second at 12:04 p.m. ET during the opening of the president’s speech, exceeding the previous record of 7.5 terabytes — Tbps — set during Election Day coverage in November. In terms of an audience, that measurement translates into 4.6 million people watching the streaming coverage — about what ABC and CBS garnered during the same time period.
Ronald Reagan still holds the record for drawing the largest inaugural TV audience in history: 42 million viewers watched his 1981 inauguration, and this was before the advent of cable news channels. And this time around? Nielsen Media Research reports that President Trump’s inauguration drew 31 million viewers across a dozen broadcast and cable networks on Friday. In comparison, President Obama attracted 20.5 million viewers for his 2013 inauguration and a hefty 38 million in 2009. And a few more: George W. Bush garnered 29 million viewers in 2001, 15.5 million in 2005 while Bill Clinton drew 29.7 million in 1993 and 21.7 million in 1997.
[NATION.PK] Justice Asif Saeed Khosa has said putting the cases in undue delay amounts to murder of justice.
"Courts are under an obligation to provide timely justice to the people; however it is unfortunate that our judicial system is marred by delayed decisions so much so that plea of a grandfather reaches decision in the time of his grandson," said the senior most judge of Supreme Court while addressing a seminar held in connection with Pilot Criminal Justice Project at Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Judicial Academy yesterday.
Lahore High Court Chief Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and other judges, judicial officers and court officers, law officers, members of the bar, and senior lawyers also attended the seminar.
"In order to ensure early administration of justice, delay in the decision must be addressed," Justice Khosa stressed.
Recalling the time when his father practiced law, Justice Khosa said then a criminal case took maximum three days to decide and this target is even achievable today under the existing law. "Only the procedure needs to be changed to get that end," he said while appreciating the LHC chief justice for welcoming his advice to make the project viable.
Justice Khosa said that their objective is to administer justice timely and make it quality based. "All over the world, timely criminal justice is being done by binding hearing of the cases with certain duration. And we can also adopt our system on those lines by bringing changes in our system."
From his own experience as judge of the LHC, he said, after he set the trend of deciding the case on merit on first day of his sitting when the lawyers did not appear, later he found the lawyers ensuring their presence in the cases before him.
In Khosa’s view, a case can be adjourned only in the event when either the lawyer or the judge has passed away. "Putting the cases in undue delay amounts to murder of justice," the SC judge stated.
He hoped the Pilot Criminal Justice Project will ensure provision of quality and timely justice to the people. At the same time, he laid stress on making the police system from investigation to submission of challan ... list of charges ... transparent and strictly within time.
The judge also stressed on shunning the practice on the part of police of naming some unnecessary people in the FIRs only to please the complainants. He underscored the need for prosecution to cooperate with the courts about completion of challan within 14 or 17 days and appearance of the witnesses. "If judges will observe time limit, lawyers will also follow the suit," he added.
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[Independent] The White House will on Monday announce that the US embassy in Israel is to move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, according to an unconfirmed report by an Israeli news outlet.
Channel 2 cited an anonymous source as saying a member of the Trump administration would announce the highly controversial move on the President’s first full working day in office.
The news channel said it had received no confirmation of the claim and there has been no public statement on the move since Friday's inauguration of the new US President.
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...Stay tuned on this one, may have been a bit premature...
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A bit more info here. For example, how many know there is a decades-old law that will require Trump to make some kind of decision by the end of May. Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act in 1995 to relocate the embassy to Jerusalem. Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, George W. Bush, and W.J. Clinton have all favored moving the embassy to Jerusalem.
[GP] Once again -- Tens of thousands of liberal women marched in Washington DC on Saturday against Trump. Then they left their trash heaps for someone else to clean up.
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I don't remember if it was the Boy Scouts or my parents that taught me to "Pack it in and pack it out." But they were finished with the signs, so they just drop them on the ground.
This is the same crowd that litters the highways but probably recycles their whine bottles.
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Compared to the tea-partiers that left their sites cleaner afterwards...
A Sioux tribal council on Saturday formally asked hundreds of protesters to clear out of three camps near its North Dakota reservation used to stage months of sometimes violent protests against the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe on Friday unanimously passed a resolution calling for the camps to be dismantled, it said on its Facebook page on Saturday. The tribe has been encouraging protesters to go home since the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers agreed to an environmental review of the $3.8 billion project in December.
Despite earlier discussions about alternative sites, the resolution made no provision for relocating the estimated 600 protesters, which include non-native environmental activists and Native Americans from outside the tribe.
"The pipeline fight has moved beyond the camps and our strategy must evolve with the process," Standing Rock Tribal Chairman David Archambault II said in a statement dated Saturday. The council said heavy snowfall in the area had raised the danger of flooding, and this week's clashes with police could imperil the environmental review process.
"Because we worked together, the federal government will prepare an Environmental Impact Statement," the tribe said. "Moving forward, our ultimate objective is best served by our elected officials, navigating strategically through the administrative and legal processes."
Native Americans and environmental activists have said that the pipeline would threaten water resources and sacred lands.
The tribe, which launched the effort to stop the pipeline last year, won a major concession when the government denied Energy Transfer Partners an easement for the pipeline to travel under Lake Oahe, a water source upstream from the reservation.
The tribe's resolution formally called on protesters to leave the area in 30 days, in part because of the potential for environmental damage and safety issues raised by the encampments. But a former council member said the tribe was also concerned that recent clashes could delay the reopening of a highway linking the reservation to Bismarck, the state capital, an hour's drive to the north.
"Our main venture that we have on Standing Rock is the Prairie Knights Casino, and Highway 1806 is the main access road," said Phyllis Young, who currently serves as a consultant to the tribe on the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Tensions increased this week near the construction site, with repeated clashes between protesters and police ahead of Friday's inauguration of President Donald Trump, an unabashed supporter of the project. Police used tear gas and fired beanbag rounds to disperse crowds, and have arrested nearly 40 people since Monday, law enforcement officials said.
One of the main groups representing protesters in the camp signaled a willingness to abide by the tribe's resolution.
"Our network respects the decision of the Cannon Ball district and the tribal council of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe," said Tom Goldtooth, the executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network. "Vacating the camp does not mean abandoning the resistance."
But Olive Bias, a Cherokee from Colorado who has been at the camps since September, said she expected some people would refuse to leave camp."Some will (leave). Others won't. It's pretty inevitable," she said.
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Apparently the protesteers (org. Mouseketeers) haven't gotten their next assignments or relocation checks. Odd the timing, that.
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.
[Breitbart] The FBI is on the hunt for a Heckler and Koch MP5 10mm and a bullet proof vest that were stolen from an agent’s car in California on January 8 or January 9.
[The American Mirror] An elderly woman demanded a Donald Trump supporter seated next to her be moved, but she quickly found out that’s not how the world works.
[HERALDNET] Hassan Jamil’s love affair with Donald Trump began in the thick of the American presidential campaign, when he found himself glued to his television screen on the other side of the world each night, transfixed by the billionaire’s “beautiful” hair, commanding presence and magnetic speaking style.
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[UPI] -- Supermarket chain Kroger Co. announced Monday it is hiring to fill about 10,000 permanent positions in 2017.
"PRESIDENT TRUMP will demand Brussels abandons plans for an EU Army if it wants the US is to continue its support for Nato. Senior British officers serving at the Pentagon have been briefed that one of the new administration’s top priorities will be to "sweep away" plans championed by Germany and France." 
[HEATST] The victim, who is reported to have possibly sustained life-threatening injuries, is currently being treated at the Harborview Medical Center. Police state that the 34-year-old male received a gunshot wound to the abdomen. Little else is known of the victim’s identity at this point.
