[NYDAILYNEWS] Authorities have enjugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! a 19-year-old member of the MS-13 gang in connection with the stabbing death of an unidentified man whose decapitated body was found with the heart removed.
Police suspect up to 10 members of the gang lured the victim out to a park in Wheaton, Md., where they stabbed him more than 100 times before burying him in a grave in the woods, the Washington Post reported. Allegedly among them, Miguel "Timido" Angel Lopez-Abrego, who authorities recently arrested in North Carolina on Nov. 11.
He’s since been extradited to Maryland and has a bond review slated for Wednesday afternoon.
The victim was likely killed between December 2016 and March 2017, according to police. They discovered his body in the shallow grave on Sept. 5, WJLA reported.
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Takoma Park and Hyattsville are currently the only sanctuary cities in Maryland.
The area where the stabbing occurred is a relatively nice park. The local population includes a lot of hispanic people, typically working class but also a lot of hispanic people who are middle class homeowners with well kept houses and yards. M-13 is, to some extent, their ISIS.
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Photos emerged on social media Wednesday showing a beaming Meghan McCain during her wedding to journalist Ben Domenech at the McCain family compound in Arizona on Tuesday.
The conservative co-host of The View, 33, wed her conservative pundit beau Domenech, 35, in Sedona on Tuesday evening.
Among the guests at the intimate wedding were actress Barret Swatek and Golden Throat SE Cupp.
[The National Interest] The .45 ACP M1911A1 pistol has served the U.S. armed forces for more than a century in every war zone and hotspot on the planet ‐ and thanks to this year’s federal defense budget, it will serve civilians for the foreseeable future.
The $700 billion 2018 National Defense Authorization Act that Congress sent to President Donald Trump’s desk on Nov. 16 included an amendment that required the Secretary of the Army to transfer a cache of small arms and ammo "no longer actively issued for military service" to the government-sponsored Civilian Marksmanship Program, including the M1911 and M1911A1 pistols, the M‐1 Garand, and .22 rimfire rifles.
The 1911 semiautomatic pistol, invented by legendary firearms inventor John Moses Browning, proved extremely reliable in the hands of American Expeditionary Forces during the opening years of World War I. According to the National Interest, Army Sergeant Alvin C. York neutralized six German soldiers who charged him with fixed bayonets using nothing but his 1911, earning the Congressional Medal of Honor for his valor and heroism.
Although the 1911A1 variant that emerged in the U.S. after WWI was phased out of regular military service in favor of the Beretta 92 pistol (aka the M9) starting in 1985, its power persists. The Marine Corps ordered 12,000 M45A1 Close Quarter Battle Pistols, a 1911-modeled firearm from Colt Defense in 2014; the pistols went to MARSOC Raiders, with a handful going to special operations-capable Marine Expeditionary Units.
The last transfer of 1911s to the CMP was in 2015, when President Barack Obama signed a defense bill that included a measure to transfer 10,000 pistols for sale to the program; lawmakers had stated that May that the DoD spends $2 a year to store each of its 100,000 surplus 1911s. With 10,000 already transferred and 8,300 additional pistols "sold or disposed of," per Guns.com, that means there are at least 80,000 1911s ready and waiting for a civilian to give them a good home.
Because of the limited number and the exceedingly high demand for the pistol, and the great level of Congressional scrutiny, the Board of Directors will make a decision regarding how sales will be handled. We have no further information at this time. – Mrs. Judith Legerski, Chairman, CMP Board of Directors"
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I'm holding out for a Garand with a chainsaw bayonet.
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I would just love a Garand.
That picture of the poor girl lining up a shot looks really bad, but is that a hinge point on the barrel? I pray it is/was, because maybe it is an air gun. Which is still going to hurt her, but not as much as, say, a .30-06.
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that black eye will be awesome
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[SFGATE] At some point or another, almost everyone has has the aggravating experience of parking their car and then forgetting exactly where they parked it.
But an unidentified 76-year-old man in Germany may have set a new record for foggy recall.
In 1997, he parked his Volkswagen Passat in the garage of an industrial building in Frankfurt and then forgot where he had left it, according to the Augsburger Allgemeine. After searching for it for days, he eventually called police and reported it stolen.
Fast-forward 20 years. The aforementioned industrial building is scheduled for the wrecking ball. But before it's demolished, the man's Passat is found right where he left it. No one had stolen it. No one had even driven it for two decades.
Police tracked down the owner and reunited him with the long-lost car.
It would have been great if it started right up like the ancient VW Bug in Woody Allen's "Sleeper," but no such luck. Years of rusting metal and disintegrating hoses had rendered the Passat undriveable and unsalvageable.
So after 20 years of not moving, it made one final trip ‐ to the junkyard.
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Left my F150 parked all winter outdoors without once starting it. Just kept the battery trickle-charged. Started right up -- with a loud screech. Then an explosion under the hood with brown smoke. Turned out the bearing on the alternator had gotten very sticky due to corrosion, while the serpentine belt was yanked along by other pulleys until it blew up. Cured this ailment with WD-40, a wrench, and of course a new serpentine belt. Got off easy on that one.
[ConservativeReview] The details surrounding the first Thanksgiving meal remain a contested topic among historians. What we do know is that the Pilgrim colonists gathered in Plymouth, Mass., in November 1621 with the Wampanoag tribe to celebrate the fall harvest.
The co-celebrated harvest was considered a remarkable feat of humanity and decency and is celebrated today as a symbol of respect, unity, and family.
There are only two primary sources regarding the harvest celebrated between a supposed 53 Pilgrims and about 90 natives, according to the Pilgrim Hall Museum.
The first, from Pilgrim leader Edward Winslow, said of the feast:
[O]ur harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together, after we had gathered the fruits of our labors; they four in one day killed as much fowl, as with a little help beside, served the Company almost a week, at which time amongst other Recreations, we exercised our Arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and amongst the rest their greatest king Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five Deer, which they brought to the Plantation and bestowed on our Governor, and upon the Captain and others.
And although it be not always so plentiful, as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want, that we often wish you partakers of our plenty.
The second primary source, William Bradford, added:
They began now to gather in the small harvest they had, and to fit up their houses and dwellings against winter, being all well recovered in health and strength and had all things in good plenty. For as some were thus employed in affairs abroad, others were exercised in fishing, about cod and bass and other fish, of which they took good store, of which every family had their portion.
All the summer there was no want; and now began to come in store of fowl, as winter approached, of which this place did abound when they came first (but afterward decreased by degrees). And besides waterfowl there was great store of wild turkeys, of which they took many, besides venison, etc. Besides, they had about a peck of meal a week to a person, or now since harvest, Indian corn to that proportion. Which made many afterwards write so largely of their plenty here to their friends in England, which were not feigned but true reports.
So what has become of the Wampanoag tribe? And what happened to King Massasoit?
Wampanoag means "easterners," in obvious reference to their geographic location.
Today, members of the tribe identify by the same name, while some prefer to be identified as descendants of King Massasoit. The English colonists made first contact with the tribe in the early 17th century. During that time, the Wampanoag held territory in modern-day Rhode Island and southeast Massachusetts.
Massasoit, meanwhile, is credited with helping the Pilgrims stave off almost certain starvation. He was also known as a great diplomat, helping his tribe stay afloat during periods of plague and warfare.
After a Pilgrim doctor helped him recover from a serious illness, he once reportedly said that "the English are my friends and love me ... whilst I live I will never forget this kindness they have showed me." For some 50 years, he kept his tribe out of warfare and/or entangling alliances that could potentially result in conflict.
Tragically, much of the Wampanoag tribe was wiped out by an epidemic likely brought ashore by the Pilgrims. Fifty years later, the group again suffered tremendous losses during King Philip’s War, a one-year conflict between a coalition of Native American tribes against English colonists and their Native American allies. Following their defeat, many Wampanoags were sold into slavery.
The Wampanoag once spoke a language of their own, called Wopanaak, but the last remaining speaker of the indigenous language passed away over a century ago. However, thanks to the Wopanaak Language Reclamation Project, new efforts have been made to teach the native language.
According to the American Indian Heritage Foundation, "Today, about 3,000 Wampanoag Indians still live in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. There is a reservation for the Wampanoag Indians on Martha’s Vineyard that was set up by the United States government."
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Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor ‐ and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me "to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be ‐ That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks ‐ for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation ‐ for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war ‐ for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed ‐ for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted ‐ for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.
and also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions ‐ to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually ‐ to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed ‐ to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord ‐ To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and us ‐ and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the City of New-York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789. ‐ Go: Washington
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[DAWN] Emmerson Mnangagwa, elected as the new leader of Zim-bob-we’s ruling political party and now poised to take over as the country’s president, has engineered a remarkable comeback using skills he no doubt learned from his long-time mentor, now ex-president Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... Mnangagwa served for decades as Mugabe’s enforcer ‐ a role that gave him a reputation for being astute, ruthless and effective at manipulating the levers of power. Among the population, he is more feared than popular, but he has strategically fostered a loyal support base within the military and security forces.
A leading government figure since Zim-bob-we’s independence in 1980, he became vice president in 2014 and is so widely known as the "Crocodile" that his supporters are called Team Lacoste for the brand’s crocodile logo.
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[Huffpoo] Jubilant crowds filled the streets of Zimbabwe’s cities on Tuesday, after the country’s speaker of parliament announced that President Robert Mugabe had resigned after decades in power.
Just shy of a week ago, Zimbabwe’s military took power in the capital and detained Mugabe in his home. Since then, the military and the ruling ZANU-PF party steadily increased pressure on the longtime ruler to leave office until it seems he finally relented.
But while Zimbabweans express their joy and relief over what appears to be the end of Mugabe’s 37-year authoritarian rule, the nature of his downfall and the ruthless past of his successor are troubling signs for a country that has seen years of repression.
The Daily Mail reporters are basing this article on a single, anonymous source.
'Blackwater' has been named by DailyMail.com's source as the firm involved, and the claim of its presence in Saudi Arabia has also been made on Arabic social media, and by Lebanon's president.
The firm's successor, Academi, strongly denies even being in Saudi Arabia and says it does not engage in torture, which it is illegal for any U.S. citizen to commit anywhere in the world.
The source said that in the febrile atmosphere in the kingdom, Prince Mohammed has bypassed the normal security forces in keeping the princes and other billionaires at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Riyadh.
'All the guards in charge are private security because MBS (Mohammed Bin Salman) doesn't want Saudi officers there who have been saluting those detainees all their lives,' said the source, who asked to remain anonymous.
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I doubt anyone is being tortured, but, it is after all the Magic Kingdom. Al Waleed cuts a dashing figure in his fawning press photos, but hung by the heels probably not so much. One wonders how Tom Steyer, the Koch bros, or the rest of the NeverTrump billionaire parade might fare under similar duress. Probably not pretty.
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The Brit press always seems to have so much more alleged "fact" to report than the US press. If any of the US Navy's sub search capability is being leaked to the press someone needs keelhauled.
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From The Times of Israel, posted 51minutes ago.
An unusual noise heard in the ocean near the last known position of the San Juan submarine was “consistent with an explosion,” Argentina’s navy announces.
“An anomalous, singular, short, violent and non-nuclear event consistent with an explosion,” occurred shortly after the last communication of the San Juan and its 44 crew, navy spokesman Captain Enrique Baldi tells a news conference in Buenos Aires.
Ukrainian forces captured a village just three kilometers from the line of contact in northeastern Donetsk, according to an official statement from the Donetsk military leadership.
Gladosovo was captured by elements of the Ukrainian 54th Separate Motorized Brigade and a smaller element of the Aidar volunteer battalion, according to the statement.
The Ukrainian coup is of some importance because it represents another small cost free incursion into rebel held territory. It is a familiar Ukrainian pattern to move forces into a gray zone, which neither force occupies. Gladosovo is just 2 kilometers northeast of the village of Zaistevo, itself under siege and Ukrainian artillery fire for the past two years. Zaistevo itself is directly adjacent to the larger town of Gorlovka.
A previous Ukrainian operation in the spring of 2016, the first of its kind, allowed Ukrainian forces to bring the only hard road that connects Gorlovka to the capital city of Donetsk under observation of Ukrainian artillery spotters. That action forced changes in how civilian traffic was allowed to move between the locales.
Several small scale direct and indirect fire engagements between the two combatants have taken place since then, most notably the artillery dual that for a time knocked out water service to both sides of the line of contact.
According to the Donetsk statement, when Ukrainian forces entered the village on the night of November 21st to November 22nd, all the residents were ordered to stay indoors under the threat of force.
The statement also said the Ukrainian mortars were deployed to the village, and the area around the village was being mined.
At the moment, little media from the Ukrainian side has addressed the operation.
Since two weeks before the Gladosovo operation, larger artillery exchanges have taken place around the western Donetsk town of Dokuchaevsk, which is south of Donetsk. It is unclear in official and private reports exactly why this specific area is subject to increased artillery fire.
The most recent reports from the Ukrainian side say that the usual points are involved in attack from the rebels, such as Avdievka and Zaistevo, and further south near the Sea of Azov in Pavlopol and Vodanoye.
Donetsk military officials say that Dokuchaevsk has been under Ukrainian artillery fire for more than two weeks. In that time 17 structures were damaged. The rebels also showed a damaged Ukrainian drone shot down over Dokuchaevsk, which the rebels claim has been used to adjust artillery fire.
Spokesman for the Donetsk ministry of defense said that the drone belonged to the Ukrainian 28th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade.
Lugansk
Ukrainian military media said that Ukrainian units came under fire from a variety of military weapons and vehicles.
Ukrainian positions were hit by rebel IFVs, 120mm and 82mm mortar fire, and from heavy infantry weapons. Rebel mortars were reported hitting Ukrainian positions in Novoaleksandrovka and Luganskoye.
IFV fire was recorded hitting Ukrainian positions at Stanitsa Luganskaya, Svetlodarsk arc, Novotoshkovskoye, Krymskoye, Novolugansk and Boguslavskoye.
[DAWN] North Korea on Wednesday condemned its US terror listing as a "serious provocation", warning that sanctions would never force it to abandon its nuclear weapons programme.
The response came shortly after China, the North's sole ally, also rejected the new US sanctions that targeted Chinese companies doing business with the pariah states, as "wrong".
President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... on Monday declared North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism, a spot on a US blacklist Pyongyang had shed nearly a decade ago.
On Tuesday the US unveiled its fresh sanctions which also targeted North Korean shipping, raising the pressure on the North to abandon its nuclear programme.
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"Our army and people are full of rage and anger towards the heinous gangsters who dared to put the name of our sacred country in this wretched list of 'terrorism'," North Korean state news agency KCNA quoted a foreign ministry spokesperson as saying.
Slamming Washington for behaving like an "international judge on terrorism", the spokesperson added that the US move was "clearly an absurdity and a mockery of world peace and security".
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"Ourarmy and people are full of rage, hunger, and anger towards the heinous gangsters who dared to put the name of our sacred country in this wretched list of 'terrorism', but mostly hunger"
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I can understand the hunger part with all those worms in their bellies sucking up what meager nutrition they are allowed by the Dear Leader.
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Ok, China. You can sell them all the Worm-Away you want.
The soldier stole a military vehicle, which he crashed 10 meters from the border. He continues on foot and is shot 11 times by his colleagues but makes it across.
Reactions, thoughts, Monday morning quarterbacking? What could he or the NKPA have done differently?
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Any chance this fellow could pick my next lotto ticket numbers ?
[Breitbart] The U.S. State Department has courted controversy by announcing it will plough $700,000 into Hungarian media, angering the country’s anti-globalist, conservative government.
The funding was announced by U.S. Chargé d’Affaires David Kostelancik, who has previously appeared to openly criticise the Trump administration by alluding to "apparent inconsistencies in [U.S.] foreign policy" and remarking that "not every criticism of the government is ’fake news’."
Breitbart London spoke to a State Department official who confirmed it supports what it calls "democracy and human rights programming" in many countries, and that its intentions in Hungary ‐ a NATO ally ‐ are to "support media outlets operating outside the capital ... to produce fact-based reporting and increase their audience and economic sustainability".
The State Department also echoed Kostelancik’s claim that too many Hungarian news outlets are sympathetic to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s popular conservative government ‐ which has earned powerful enemies by opposing the European Union on mass migration, building a highly effective border wall, and exposing the network of European politicians deemed "reliable allies" by billionaire open borders campaigner George Soros.
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How refreshing it would be if our minders in Washington would simply stay out of other people's business. They could use the obvious media blackout of sordid crime and political events in Chicago, Zimbabwe, and South Africa as a template.
[Breitbart] Planned Parenthood is coming to the aid of those who may need a "safe space" at the Thanksgiving dinner table, surrounded by family members who may not be politically correct enough for them.
"Visiting family for Thanksgiving can be challenging," Planned Parenthood observes in its Tumblr post titled "Thanksgiving: How to Deal with Difficult People."
"Your dinner companions may say hurtful, offensive things about race, gender identity, sexual harassment and assault, birth control coverage, abortion, or any number of topics ‐ which can feel stressful, isolating, or enraging," the abortion provider adds, extending four tips on how to "feel safe" if you are planning to be around other people for the holiday.
First, Planned Parenthood says you can engage in "self care" by making decisions that allow you to "feel safe," including the options of "not going home at all, going home with a friend or partner by your side, or only visiting for dinner."
Second, the group recommends developing allies among "family members who love and respect you."
"The more people in your family who can call people out ... on their problematic behavior, the less acceptable it will be," Planned Parenthood asserts.
When the subject of birth control comes up at the Thanksgiving table, Planned Parenthood offers these suggestions ‐ but only if you "feel safe":
No surprise here. Non-recognition of the family is squarely at the top of the list of Planned Parenthood recommendations. Families are bad for business.
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Planned Parenthood is coming to the aid of those who may need a "safe space" at the Thanksgiving dinner table, surrounded by family members who may not be politically correct enough for them.
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.
[The National Interest] The .45 ACP M1911A1 pistol has served the U.S. armed forces for more than a century in every war zone and hotspot on the planet ‐ and thanks to this year’s federal defense budget, it will serve civilians for the foreseeable future.
[DailyMail]- Search for missing Argentine submarine intensifies as the crew said to run out of oxygen today
Ukrainian forces captured a village just three kilometers from the line of contact in northeastern Donetsk, according to an official statement from the Donetsk military leadership.
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[Breitbart] Planned Parenthood is coming to the aid of those who may need a "safe space" at the Thanksgiving dinner table, surrounded by family members who may not be politically correct enough for them.
