[Telegraph] The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office is reporting two corrections officers are dead after a prison bus was hijacked early Tuesday.
Two armed inmates have escaped and are considered very dangerous.
Authorities are looking for Ricky Dubose and Donnie Russell Rowe, who took the officers’.40 caliber Glock pistols. Rowe is a white male in his 40s, who is 6 feet 1 inch tall, has brown hair and blue eyes and weighs about 180 pounds.
He was serving time in Baldwin State Prison for an armed robbery in Bibb County, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections website. Dubose is a white male, about 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighing about 140 pounds.
He was serving time at Baldwin State Prison for armed robbery in Elbert County. Newer photos of him circulating through law enforcement show him with tattoos on his face and neck. Emphasis added.
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Great to be a rich nation that can afford to warehouse hundreds of thousands of toxic lethal predators that any other time in history would have been put down. They got to exercise the death penalty on others, but the state is impotent and unwilling to provide justice on to them. [Except when it hits home - note how quickly Mr. McVeigh faced his maker]
[SCMP] Three Chinese men tossed in the clink Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in Thailand have acknowledged that they were operating a "click farm", using hundreds of cellphones and several hundred thousand SIM cards to run up "likes" and views on WeChat, a Chinese social media mobile application, Thai police said Tuesday.
Immigration Police Captain Itthikorn Atthanark said the men explained they were paid according to how many likes and views they generated, each earning 100,000-150,000 baht (US$2,950-$4,400) per month. Click farms are hired to inflate an online site’s viewership for prestige and profit.
Some politicians boast of how many followers they have on social media, while clicks can generate ad revenue.
WeChat is China’s most prominent online social media platform, incorporating a text-messaging service as well as marketing for online stores.
Police seized 476 cellphones and around 347,200 SIM cards during the arrests Sunday at a house in Sa Kaeo province, about 200 kilometres east of Bangkok.
The men, identified as Wang Dong, Niu Bang and Ni Wenjin, were charged with working without a permit and importing the phones without paying taxes.
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Most have gotten the 'how to manual' published by a DNC office.
[THESMOKINGGUN] A Kentucky teenager arrested this week appears to have set a new U.S. record for hickeys. Either she loves him or he's tasty.
Micah Musser, 18, was arrested yesterday morning after Louisville police discovered him and several juvenile runaways inside an abandoned building. Musser and the minors were found laying [sic] on the floor, which was strewn with “empty alcoholic beverage containers,” according to a court citation. "Hey, kids! Let's hole up in an abandoned building and get sloshed!"
"Sure, Mickey! C'mere and lemme suck on yer neck for awhile!"
Musser told cops that he and the minors had consumed the alcohol after gaining entry to the boarded-up property the prior evening. "Yersh, officers! 'At's what we did! An' den somebody suckled my neck!"
Charged with criminal trespassing and unlawful transaction with a minor, Musser was booked into the Louisville Metro Corrections jail. He is scheduled for a June 13 arraignment on the misdemeanor charges. "A person is guilty of unlawful transaction with a minor in the first degree when he or she knowingly induces, assists, or causes a minor to engage in: (a) Illegal sexual activity; or (b) Illegal controlled substances activity other than activity involving marijuana or salvia"
The citation offers no details as to how Musser obtained the apparent hickey swarm on his neck. They look pretty fresh. Maybe part of the "unlawful transaction?"
Based on photos uploaded to his Facebook page in late-April, Musser’s hickeys appear to be of recent vintage.
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[RT] A class-action lawsuit accusing the New York Police Department of issuing hundreds of thousands of summonses in order to boost its crime statistics has been settled for $75 million.
A federal judge approved the settlement Monday after seven years of litigation.
The controversy arises out of the NYPD’s ‘broken windows’ policing strategy, tactics based on the idea that clamping down on minor crimes, such as broken windows, helps prevent more serious crimes. The NYPD adopted the policy in the 1990s and it subsequently spread to other American cities.
The plaintiffs in the case Sharif Stinson et al v City of New York argued that minorities have been disproportionately targeted by the policy.
Da Mayor don't like when his peeps are disrespected. This kind of thing will continue until New Yorkers elect another Rudy Guiliani.
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argued that minorities have been disproportionately targeted by the policy.
Actually the other way around. Minorities, esp black, are not targeted enough to their proportion of crimes committed.
NYPD Releases New York City Crime Stats for 2013 Based On Race
New York City Population by Race/Hispanic Origin (Census Bureau 2013: American Community Survey ACS)
White 2,733,605 32.8%
Black 1,885,882 22.6%
Hispanic 2,406,890 28.9%
Total Population 8,336,697
Shooting victims are most frequently Black (74.4%) or Hispanic (21.6%). White victims account for an additional (2.8%)
The race/ethnicity of known Shooting suspects is most frequently Black (74.7%). Hispanic suspects accounted for an additional (22.0%) of all suspects. White suspects (2.2%) accounted for the remaining significant portion of suspects
The Shooting arrest population is similarly distributed. Black arrestees (72.5%) and Hispanic arrestees (24.0%) account for the majority of Shooting arrest population. White arrestees (2.3%)
The Drug Felony Arrest population is most frequently Black (44.3%) or Hispanic (40.2%). White arrestees account for (13.3%)
Murder and Non-Negligent Manslaughter victims are most frequently Black (62.9%) or Hispanic (25.2%). White victims account for (7.2%)
The race/ethnicity of known Murder and Non-Negligent Manslaughter suspects mirrors the victim population with Black (55.0%) and Hispanic (35.5%) suspects accounting for the majority of suspects. White suspects account for (5.8%)
The Murder and Non-Negligent Manslaughter arrest population is similarly distributed. Black arrestees (54.0%) and Hispanic arrestees (36.5%) account for the majority of Murder and Non-Negligent Manslaughter arrestees while White arrestees (6.5%)
Rape victims are most frequently Black (40.8%) or Hispanic (34.5%). White victims account for (17.7%)
Rape suspects are most frequently Black (53.0%) or Hispanic (33.4%). White suspects account for (9.9%)
Rape arrestees are most frequently Black (46.0%) and Hispanic (42.1%). White arrestees (6.0%)
Robbery victims are most frequently Hispanic (36.7%) or Black (33.4%). White victims account for (16.7%)
The race/ethnicity of known Robbery suspects is primarily Black (69.7%). Hispanic suspects account for an additional (25.0%) of the suspect population. White suspects account for (4.0%)
The Robbery arrestees are most frequently Black (62.4%) or Hispanic (29.8%). White arrestees (5.1%)
Felonious Assault victims are most frequently Black (46.7%) or Hispanic (34.3%). White victims account for (12.8%)
The race/ethnicity of known Felonious Assault suspects is most frequently Black (55.9%) or Hispanic (31.5%). White suspects account for (8.7%)
Felonious Assault arrestees are most frequently Black (52.2%) or Hispanic (33.7%). White arrestees (8.9%)
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Is Judge Robert W. Sweet, an activist judge? NYC and many of the U.S. District judges have taken leave of their collective senses. The result: Redux of "Escape from New York" with Snake Plissken; the left thrives on chaos.
[Mil.com] RICE, Va. -- Retired Lt. Gen. Samuel Wilson, who had a long military and intelligence career and was president of Hampden-Sydney College from 1992 to 2000, has died, the college announced. He was 93.
Wilson, who was known as "General Sam," died Saturday at his home in Rice, Virginia.
Wilson served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and was known for coining the term "counter-insurgency" as well as for helping to create Delta Force, the U.S. Army's special forces group.
Long before that, he joined the Army as a 16-year-old private in 1940. He taught guerrilla and counter-guerrilla tactics at the Infantry School at Fort Benning in Georgia in 1942 and 1943. He became a first lieutenant at the age of 19 and was chief reconnaissance officer for a unit known as Merrill's Marauders, which operated behind enemy lines in Burma during World War II.
At the end of the war, he was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services, which was the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency, in Southeast Asia. He later worked as a CIA officer in West Berlin and a defense attache at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow during the Cold War.
Wilson retired from the Army in 1977 and became a political science professor at Hampden-Sydney while continuing to consult with officials in Washington.
Hampden-Sydney President Larry Stimpert says Wilson steered the college through a difficult period when enrollment growth slowed and the college considered whether to allow women. The governing board ultimately decided to keep college all-male, and under Wilson's leadership, enrollment growth resumed and the endowment nearly doubled. Hampden-Sydney remains one of the nation's few remaining private colleges for men.
[Rooters] In Texas, the pigs do not fly but the hunters do.
Tourists looking for ever more thrilling holidays are taking to the skies above Texas to shoot wild hogs as part of the state's effort to limit the spread of an invasive species that annually causes millions of dollars in damage to farmland and livestock nationally.
For up to $50,000, people can hunt the feral hogs from a helicopter and even use a machine gun to mow them down.
"There's only so many places in the world you can shoot machine guns out of a helicopter and no one shoots back," said Chris Britt, co-owner of HeliBacon, one of the companies offering the aerial hog hunts.
HeliBacon says its customers alone gunned down about 10,000 feral hogs in the last 18 months, but that barely makes a dent in the Texas' population of more than 2 million, a total higher than any other state.
There were 2,752 helicopter hog hunts in Texas last year, up 81 percent from 2011, according to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department data. About 34,400 hogs were killed in those hunts, up 53 percent.
The total U.S. population of the hogs is estimated at more than 6 million, and state and federal government officials are increasing efforts to rid themselves of the pesky animals.
There are nearly 150 companies and individuals permitted to hunt invasive feral hogs from helicopters as part of the Texas' so-called pork chopper bill passed in 2011. State legislators last month sent a bill to Governor Greg Abbott that would allow hog hunting from hot air balloons.
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Someone sitting behind me with his knees in the breeze firing an AR.....? Uhhhh, no thanks. I believe I've got a colonoscopy that day. If not, I'm scheduling one.
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That's 12.5 dead hogs per flight, including "machine guns". Not what I'd call 'mowing them down'.
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"would allow hog hunting from hot air balloon"
OK, next up, a retread repurposed Goodyear Blimp with a minigun!
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The total U.S. population of the hogs is estimated at more than 6 million, and state and federal government officials are increasing efforts to rid themselves of the pesky animals.
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Very tasty, Raj, very tasty. had some just last summer. 3 Feral hogs went after my neighbor. He had an AR-15 and dropped all 3. We dug a pit with his backhoe and spent a great evening, night, and next day butchering and cooking them along with consuming mass quantities of beer. We fed around 50 people.
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I want to read articles about drones vs. feral hogs.
Howsabout roving autonomous blimps, armed with miniguns, on a search and destroy mission? They also have live video feed and drop a beacon to mark a kill for easy retrieval.
From The Sun:
Residents jumping from building with more trapped inside block that contains 120 homes, as 40 fire engines and more than 200 firefighters fighting to control blaze
DOZENS of people are feared dead after a massive fire ripped through a west London tower block last night, trapping some families and forcing others to leap out of windows to escape the horror.
Fire fighters confirmed ‘a number' of people had been killed in the terrifying blaze at the 24-storey Grenfell Towers that was engulfed within 15 minutes of the fire first starting.
Chillingly, back in November, while addressing the managed by tenant managers Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (KCTMO), the group wrote: 'It is a truly terrifying thought but the Grenfell Action Group firmly believe that only a catastrophic event will expose the ineptitude and incompetence of our landlord, the KCTMO, and bring an end to the dangerous living conditions and neglect of health and safety legislation that they inflict upon their tenants and leaseholders.
'We believe that the KCTMO are an evil, unprincipled, mini-mafia who have no business to be charged with the responsibility of looking after the every day management of large scale social housing estates and that their sordid collusion with the RBKC Council is a recipe for a future major disaster.
'Unfortunately, the Grenfell Action Group have reached the conclusion that only an incident that results in serious loss of life of KCTMO residents will allow the external scrutiny to occur that will shine a light on the practices that characterise the malign governance of this non-functioning organisation.
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Authorities warn against blaming
That stuff that was smoking and flaming:
"Don't jump to conclusions!
Just dump those delusions
Of flammophobe oxygen-shaming."
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This building went up very fast almost too fast. Are we sure it was a faulty refrigerator? How could this be determined so rapidly?
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From the Sun: One witness told Sky they believed the fire was started by a faulty fridge.
Way down on the same page: Mahad Egal escaped from his flat on the fourth floor with his family, including two small children, just before 1am.
He was reduced to tears as he recounted the terrible events of the night on the Victoria Derbyshire show:
"The fire started on the fourth floor, my neighbour told me it was his fridge that exploded.
"We were one of the first 10 families who got out no later then 1.10am and at this point the fire was no higher than an average tree. "At first it seemed it was controllable, but really quickly the fire started to rise as the cladding caught fire."
We'll have to wait for the fire forensic team to finish their investigations before we'll know the cause for sure.
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Claiming a specific cause such as fridge explosion would certainly be the best way to mask a work accident. The fridge story would get around and around and be the 'truth' before experts ever had a chance to sift through the rubble.
I'm not saying it was a work accident, but playing what if.
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Either way the landlord's are toast. Then again, this is Britain.
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An exploding fridge?
What was in those leftover Burritos, C4?
Either this is just a hyperbolic statement about a sudden flame from a short circuit or work accident. Refrigerators don't explode and aren't gas powered either.
I'll bet on some sort of arson given the tenant management fights I've read about.
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In the SFbay area in the 70s-80s we had a large number of islanders (Tongan and Somaian) brought over by the Mormons. I remember hearing of a number of fires caused by these fellows roasting pigs inside like they did back home.
I was kid, this might have been untrue, but the story sticks in my head and I can't help but wonder what the demographics of the tower were.
[DefenseOne] For the Baltic countries on NATO’s northeastern flank, carefully monitoring Russia’s various defense investments and activities is nothing new. Like brushing your teeth, it’s just a matter of staying healthy, Estonia’s defense minister told a small group of reporters while visiting the U.S. last week. Observing Russian military activity is that routine, “but we do it even more often,” he said.
So Margus Tsahkna and his counterparts in neighboring Latvia and Lithuania say they’re in no way unprepared for Russia’s upcoming military exercise, Zapad (“West”) 2017. The joint exercise with Belarus, which simulates a full-scale conflict with the West, happens every four years. But even so, “it’s not comfortable at all when we expect to have 100,000 troops around our borders,” Lithuanian Minister of Defence Raimundas Karoblis said during a recent visit to Washington.
Scheduled for autumn, this year’s Zapad will be the first since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.
[Express] One particular effect of the bill has been a surge in family remittances to several Latin American countries - with more than £55 billion ($70 billion) being sent home in 2016.
The increase during the first quarter of 2017 has been especially notable in remittances to Dominican Republic, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala -
Not Mexico? Fascinating.
which have all registered increases of between 10 and 15 per cent over the same period of the previous year.
While in Mexico, the year began with average figures but by March, the country saw a surge of 15.1 per cent.
[DAWN] A 17-year-old girl was strangled to death allegedly by her father and brother in Sorgul area here in the name of honour on Monday, police said.
A Kohat police front man said in a statement that some relatives of the victim reported that body of the dear departed was lying in the house.
The Jarma police arrived at the scene and found that she was strangled to death. The body was shifted to women and kiddies hospital where the doctors confirmed that her death occurred due to choking by a rope around her neck.
The victim’s father and brother managed to escape after the incident. Initial reports said the girl had alleged relationship with a boy due to which she was murdered.
The police were carrying out raids to arrest the accused, but till filing of this report no arrests had been made.
The police started the paperwork but haven't done much else on the complaint of the grandfather of the dear departed against the accused.
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Dear Femnazis, this may be in your future as you continue to ignore Islam in your war against Western Civilization. You many not like the particulars of Islam, but Islam is interested in you(r) submission. Besides, why should any male want to die to defend you from such a fate?
[DAWN] GILGIT: An 11-year-old girl student died here on Monday allegedly due to violence by a female teacher in a government school in Ghizer district, police said.
Ghizer police locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! the teacher and started investigation into the case.
SP Ghizer Faisal Zahoor told mediapersons that the parents of the victim, a student of girls middle school Sherqila in Ghizer district, submitted an application with the women cop shoppe Ghahkuch, stating that their child died in hospital of violence by a teacher.
The complainants alleged that the girl was beaten by her teacher with an iron rod during the class, saying the girl’s legs were badly hit, which caused infection in leg bones.
"When the girl was admitted to a private hospital in the area, doctors suggested her to be shifted to Combined Military Hospital in Gilgit for treatment," said the parents, adding the girl died in the CMH on Monday morning.
SP Zahoor said after postmortem the body was handed over to relatives. He said it was yet to be investigated either the girl died of the alleged torture or any another cause.
Paperwork was started but nothing else was done in the women cop shoppe Ghahkuch, the district headquarters of Ghizer.
The police officer said when Ghizer police personnel reached Sherqila to arrest the teacher on Monday, some people from the area attacked the cops with stones.
Police also registered FIR against people who attacked the personnel.
The accused teacher and victim girl belong to Sherqila area.
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I've been teaching high school for the last 6 months - I don't approve of that teacher's actions, but ...
[DAWN] Eight men have been nabbed Please don't kill me! for violently ambushing a government convoy transporting cows in northwest India, police said Tuesday, the latest assault by vigilantes claiming to protect the sacred animal.
A mob of about 200 Hindu hardliners Sunday blocked the convoy of trucks in Rajasthan state as government officials escorted 80 cows and calves to a state-run breeding programme in India's south.
They attacked the officials after accusing them of taking the cows to a slaughterhouse, local police chief Gagandeep Singla told AFP.
"They stopped the trucks on the pretext of checking documents and then attacked them with sticks and damaged the trucks," he said, adding the mob tried to set the vehicles ablaze.
More than 50 vigilantes have been identified and charged with assaulting public officials, he added. One of those targeted in the 30-minute attack sustained serious head injuries.
Hindus, the majority in India, consider cows sacred and killing the beasts is illegal in many states, with life sentences imposed in some jurisdictions.
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[DAWN] The joint investigation team (JIT) probing allegations of money laundering against the Sharif family has made startling allegations accusing government institutions and departments of tampering records, creating obstacles in the probe and even threatening members of the six-member team.
In a damning application filed with the apex court earlier this week, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, the JIT informed the Supreme Court about the various challenges they have been facing in concluding the investigation within the stipulated two-month timeframe.
SECP 'tampered' record
Led by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Additional Director General Wajid Zia, the JIT alleged in its application that Chairman Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistain (SECP) Zafarul Haq Hijazi "was instrumental in closing the investigation of money laundering case launched against Chaudhry Sugar Mills Limited", which is owned by the Sharif family, in 2016.
"This act of backdated closure of investigation... is a criminal act, with a view to facilitate the Respondents (the Sharif family) against whom the present investigation in being conducted," it said.
It said the SECP chairman's orders to tamper the record and close investigation against Chaudhry Sugar Mills Limited were executed by SECP Executive Director Ali Azeem Ikram, who was incidentally nominated initially by the chairman to be a member of the present JIT "with a clear intent to subvert the investigation of the JIT".
The application further accuses the SECP of restricting its own officers from inquiring about the requests handed to them by the JIT.
The JIT said it had asked the SECP to provide any documents pertaining to investigations carried out regarding Chaudhry Sugar Mills or any other company related to the Sharif family. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... an SECP officer ─ whose name is being withheld for security reasons ─ claimed that the SECP chairman did not allow him to check from all concerned departments of the SECP and confirm whether there were other inquiries against companies owned by the Sharif family.
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[Space.com] If humanity is serious about colonizing Mars, we need to get busy studying how to get busy in space.
We just don't know enough about how human reproduction and development work in the final frontier to confidently plan out permanent, sustainable settlements on the Red Planet or anywhere else away from Earth, said Kris Lehnhardt, an assistant professor in the department of emergency medicine at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
"This is something that we, frankly, have never studied dramatically, because it's not been relevant to date," Lehnhardt said May 16 during a panel discussion at "On the Launchpad: Return to Deep Space," a webcast event in Washington, D.C., organized by The Atlantic magazine. [The Human Body in Space: 6 Weird Facts]
"But if we want to become a spacefaring species and we want to live in space permanently, this is a crucial issue that we have to address that just has not been fully studied yet," he added.
Off-Earth reproduction isn't a completely ignored topic, of course. Just last month, for example, a group of researchers in Japan announced that freeze-dried mouse sperm that was stored on the International Space Station for nine months gave rise to healthy pups.
Those results suggest that the relatively high levels of radiation experienced in space don't pose an insurmountable barrier to reproduction.
But the mouse sperm was brought back to Earth to produce embryos, which grew here on terra firma. How a human embryo would fare when away from Earth -- in the microgravity environment of orbit or deep space, or on Mars, whose surface gravity is just 38 percent as strong as that of our planet -- remains a mystery, Lehnhardt said.
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No matter what position the dirty deed occurs in the sperm seem to find their way to the destination. That suggest to me gravity has little to do with it and all would work well in microgravity as long as they were careful not to, ahem, thrust so hard the couple was separated.
The real issues are (1) What happens to a fetus in microgravity, while in the womb is muscle growth in any way connected to gravity resistance (probably not) (2) Are we ready to accept having children that could probably never return to Earth, because if they grow up in space their muscles are going to be flaccid.
[Politico] The Trump era has brought a change of fortune for a Silicon Valley software company founded by presidential adviser Peter Thiel -- turning it from a Pentagon outcast to a player with three allies in Defense Secretary James Mattis' inner circle.
At least three Pentagon officials close to Mattis, including his deputy chief of staff and a longtime confidante, either worked, lobbied or consulted for Palantir Technologies, according to ethics disclosures obtained by POLITICO. That's an unusually high number of people from one company to have such daily contact with the Pentagon leader, some analysts say.
It also represents a sharp rise in prominence for the company, which just months ago could barely get a meeting in the Pentagon. Last year, Palantir even had to go to court to force its way into a competition for a lucrative Army contract.
Thiel was one of the few Silicon Valley titans to openly support Donald Trump during the campaign, a role that gave him a prime speaking slot at last summer’s Republican convention. He has since acted as a key adviser arranging meetings among the president and other tech executives. While there's no evidence he had a direct hand in these specific Pentagon hires, analysts say they absolutely show his growing influence in the administration, where he holds no formal role.
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This is good to see. Palantir is the right system for the lawfare environment that currently exists. DCGS is the right system for warfare. They can and should exist concurrently.
[Breitbart] SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. (AP) -- Members of Army medic James McCloughan’s unit in Vietnam called him "Doc."
Now, those soldiers, several of whom McCloughan saved during the ferocious, dayslong Battle of Nui Yon Hill in 1969, will have a new name for him: Medal of Honor recipient.
Army spokeswoman Valerie L. Mongello said Tuesday that the 71-year-old from South Haven, Michigan, will become the first person to be awarded the nation’s highest military honor by President Donald Trump.
"I feel honored to be able to accept this for the 89 men that fought that battle," McCloughan (pronounced muh-CLOO’-uhn) said, referencing the number of American combatants, dozens of whom were killed, wounded or went missing during the 48 hours of fighting against hundreds of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong.
Then a 23-year-old private first class who was drafted a year earlier after earning a degree in sociology from Olivet College, McCloughan repeatedly entered the "kill zone" to rescue wounded comrades, despite being pelted with shrapnel from a rocket propelled grenade.
McCloughan "voluntarily risked his life on nine separate occasions to rescue wounded and disoriented comrades," the White House said in an emailed statement Tuesday. "He suffered wounds from shrapnel and small arms fire on three separate occasions, but refused medical evacuation to stay with his unit, and continued to brave enemy fire to rescue, treat, and defend wounded Americans."
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As a fellow Vietnam vet and a 91B20 (combat medic) I would like to congratulate my fellow medic. I would add, that many medics were killed doing just what this once young man did. It was not a job for the weak, and continues to this very day during the course of growing old. Airborne!!!
[FoxNews] Otto Warmbier, the U.S. college student arrested, tried and imprisoned in North Korea for more than a year for trying to swipe a souvenir from a hotel, was expected to arrive late Tuesday in Cincinnati, his hometown, for urgent medical treatment.
A U.S. official confirmed to Fox News that Warmbier, 22, was in a coma and had been for "over a year." The official added that the North Koreans told the U.S. that Warmbier contracted botulism before slipping into a coma. However, the two U.S. doctors traveling with him have not been able to confirm that claim, the official said.
What actually happened to Warmbier and why he fell into a coma, though, may be more disturbing. The New York Times, citing an unnamed senior American official, said the U.S. had received intelligence reports in recent weeks that Warmbier had been repeatedly beaten and there were concerns in Washington that the beatings had killed him.
Warmbier has served just over a year of his 15-year sentence -- allegedly for taking down a sign of the late dictator Kim Jong Il while he was in the country with a tour group. As of Tuesday morning, Warmbier was on a U.S. military aircraft with a medical team. After a stop at an American base in Japan and then refueling in Anchorage, the flight continued to Cincinnati. Other details surrounding the dramatic events were not released.
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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.
[THESMOKINGGUN] A Kentucky teenager arrested this week appears to have set a new U.S. record for hickeys.
[Mil.com] RICE, Va. -- Retired Lt. Gen. Samuel Wilson, who had a long military and intelligence career and was president of Hampden-Sydney College from 1992 to 2000, has died, the college announced. He was 93.
[DAWN] A 17-year-old girl was strangled to death allegedly by her father and brother in Sorgul area here in the name of honour on Monday, police said.
[DAWN] Eight men have been 
[DAWN] The joint investigation team (JIT) probing allegations of money laundering against the Sharif family has made startling allegations accusing government institutions and departments of tampering records, creating obstacles in the probe and even threatening members of the six-member team.
[Politico] The Trump era has brought a change of fortune for a Silicon Valley software company founded by presidential adviser Peter Thiel -- turning it from a Pentagon outcast to a player with three allies in Defense Secretary James Mattis' inner circle.
[Breitbart] SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. (AP) -- Members of Army medic James McCloughan’s unit in Vietnam called him "Doc."
