[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A hero Los Angeles County fire captain thwarted a suspected looter as she allegedly attempted to steal an Emmy award from the rubble of an Altadena home.
Captain Craig Heard was with a crew fighting the Eaton Fire in north east LA when he spotted a woman with a white Ram truck full of items – including what appeared to be one of the coveted Hollywood TV awards.
Heard confronted the woman and grabbed the golden statue, while she protested that she was not a looter and the items were her own.
The incident was caught on video by a witness and shared with DailyMail.com.
'No way,' Heard told the woman. 'You are not doing this. These are our houses. We tried to save all these people. You're not stealing from them.'
'I'm not looting sir,' she yelled back. 'I'm not stealing that. This is my stuff. I'm calling my lawyer.'
As she strode back towards her truck, Heard said: 'You're not going anywhere.'
A witness said Heard jumped in the passenger side of the truck and grabbed the keys to prevent the suspected looter driving away.
LA sheriff deputies showed up and arrested the woman at the scene, on the 400 block of West Harriet Street in Altadena.
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She is on video. If she isn’t prosecuted, recall the DA.
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It is just poor Liberal Democrats stealing redistributing wealth. This time from Richer Liberal Democrats.
After all, it's a very common practice of Liberals & Democrats, that we have seen time and time again, during their looting and pillaging peaceful protests.
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To misquote Markus Ramius:
Some of the things here don't react well to bullets.
That said:
We did a practice shooter event a few years back, and our unofficial AAR a Truck Gun, as the ranchers call it, was brought up. It was turned down, with obvious safety reasons with lots of equipment getting moved around for a, locally, very unlikely event, as well as legal and insurance reasons, "Under what authority and training did you use a firearm?"
Here, they could claim active fire scene which includes commandeering equipment and vehicles in order to make the scene safe. With the current systems in place, it is best that the 'suspect' didn't act the fool.
Normally, police are on scene to do just that, secure the scene for safe firefighting operations. An around on that, considering the scope and stretching of resources, certain firefighters, such as command and safety officers, could be deputized, but again if there is an incident the training aspect would come under scrutiny.
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Exactly the problem Glenmore. In an active fire situation, firefighters control the scene until released to police, so even if it was her place, she can be denied entrance until a proper fire investigation is concluded and then is released to police, who both have powers to deny access to everyone until both agencies have had their say an the site is declared not under investigation and is safe.
Trespassing on your own property is a sour taste, but that is the system in place, locally at least, not familiar with California laws.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Disturbing ramblings that school shooter Solomon Henderson reportedly posted online in the moments before he opened fire at Antioch High School offer a terrifying look into his mind.
The supposed 47-page manifesto included a layout of the Tennessee school, along with photos of the weapons he wanted to use and his thoughts about why he wanted to commit a shooting.
His final writings came on November 18 - the same day the Metro Nashville Police Department received a call indicating there was a school shooting at Antioch High School, which they later determined was a hoax, according to News Channel 5.
'I was so miserable. I wanted to kill myself. I just couldn't take anymore. I am a worthless subhuman, a living, breathing disgrace,' the 17-year-old gunman allegedly wrote.
'All my [in real life] friends outgrew me, act like they didn't f***ing know me. Becoming me was so f***ing humiliating. That's why I spend all day dissociating.'
Much of the rest of the document, which was said to be linked to a social media account linked to Henderson, deals with his struggle with race and racial issues.
Henderson allegedly said that he was 'ashamed to be black,' before he goes on to use anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim language.
'The difference between good and bad criminals depends on how well they were dressed. It depends on what weapon they used. It depends on their posture, their voice, their plan of attack,' Henderson apparently mused.
'It depends on how they carried it out. It depends on their height, their bone structure, their body fat percentage, their haircut. It depends on who their victim was.
'Even the very worst of criminal acts are forgiven by simply looking good. Or cool. Or interesting in some way,' he wrote, before listing his plans to get in better shape.
In a question-and-answer section of the document, Henderson noted that he did not plan to kill any law enforcement officers and did not consider himself a victim of bullying.
'Personally in my life, I can't remember a single instance of being bullied, at least not [conventionally],' the manifesto says. 'I was bullied in the culture sense, which everyone is bullied in.'
He then went on to share his thoughts about Antioch High School, just outside of Nashville, which has a majority of black and Hispanic students.
'School is a daycare,' he wrote. 'It's impossible for you to actually think. You say things because other people have said it before, then go repeat ad nauseum somewhere else.
'In school, we're taught to wake up early, shut up, sit for long periods of hours, do tasks you hate, then repeat.'
Henderson even allegedly included links to other manifestos, a link on how to carry out a mass killing with targets ranked by how easy it would be to murder them, as well as photos of a handgun, a lockpicking kit and cartridges to load into a handgun he planned to use in the shooting.
The teen then arrived at the school on Wednesday from the bus, and entered a bathroom, where police believe he retrieved a weapon.
He seen wearing a hoodie just after 11am, when he 'confronted' Josselin Corea Escalante, 16, and fired multiple rounds using a pistol, before he turned the gun on himself. Another student was also injured with a graze wound to her arm, and was rushed to Vanderbilt University Hospital in stable condition. Police also said a fourth boy was being treated for an injury to the face caused during the commotion, but they were not shot, Channel 5 reports.
The teen livestreamed the shooting online, and had written on his X page that he saved up enough money to buy a GoPro camera 'but it was hard to explain to my parents why I needed it, so I couldn't buy it,' Raw Story reports.
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I get the feeling that every teen now has a manifesto. I may create one for myself in retrospect. It will include sinful behavior and general stupidity.
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Generation Lockdown. Thanks Fauci, Thanks Biden, Thanks Democrats.
'School is a daycare,' he wrote. 'It's impossible for you to actually think. You say things because other people have said it before, then go repeat ad nauseum somewhere else.
Can't really disagree with this, even in my neck of the woods. Thanks Department of Education.
Not to excuse this, if he really felt this way he would have empathy for his fellow travelers instead of murdering them, so there was something off upstairs, but to not consider he could be a product of policy would be incurious.
[NYPOST] A Brooklyn man is facing at least 20 years behind bars for the senseless stabbing death of a community activist who was slashed to death in front of his girlfriend in a shocking caught-on-video attack.
Brian Dowling, 20, pleaded guilty Wednesday to second-degree murder charges in the random Oct. 2, 2023, slaying of activist Ryan Carson as he ran for his life on Malcolm X Boulevard.
''Many of us still shudder when recalling the horrific video showing this defendant viciously attacking Ryan Carson and stabbing him to death for no reason at all,'' Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez said in a statement.
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So much violence I since then that I only remember this vaguely. The media simmered on this for a short term but eventually discarded it because there was no available agenda to leverage.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] CNN has started laying off the first of what is set to be hundreds of staffers as mainstream media begins to cut jobs with Donald Trump returning to the White House.
What's more, the struggling cable network has plans to do major surgery on its TV lineup, attempt to expand digital subscribers and move production to its Atlanta home base.
The layoffs were initially reported in November and follow about 100 cuts the network made over the summer.
At least one big name producer has reportedly learned they're out of a job on Wednesday, with many more set to be told on Thursday, Status reported.
Many shows are also rumored to be moving from New York and Washington to Atlanta, where production costs are cheaper, according to CNBC.
On the schedule, virulently anti-Trump anchor Jim Acosta may be headed to the dead zone of cable news, going from 10am to a two-hour show airing at midnights.
The network's former chief White House correspondent may leave the network altogether, according to the LA Times, if he doesn't except a timeslot that's been described as 'the Siberia of cable news.'
Insiders told Puck back in November that the firings were likely to lean closer to the production side of things.
New CNN CEO Mark Thompson - who personally asked Acosta to accept the midnight show - said in a meeting last month that the layoffs were not to cut costs but to 'change CNN' and 'make it better.' Puck reported he's told staffers 'dispassionate, open-minded coverage of the incoming president.'
Employees at the network have described the vibes as 'anxious' and 'nauseous' as closed-door meetings take place to determine the future of the network.
Their competitors are set to do the same, as NBC News is also planning to lay off 'a few dozen' workers Thursday as well.
Staffers at ABC News - following the network's highly publicized settlement with Trump - are also worried that cuts are about to come, though no specific date has been set.
However, a source at the network said that 'everyone is on edge' and despite all three being 'highly profitable,' their business models are said to be broken.
Status added that there are likely to be more cuts to follow in the years to come.
President Trump commented on the matter on Truth Social: 'MSDNC is even worse than CNN. They shouldn’t even have a right to broadcast - Only in America!'
DailyMail.com has reached out to CNN, ABC News and NBC News for comment.
The network has just gone through an embarrassing lawsuit after they defamed an Afghan war veteran by falsely accusing him of running a 'black market' for Afghanistan evacuations and must pay him $5 million damages.
The network has been battling sagging ratings and vows from conservative lawmakers including Trump himself to crack down on what they claim is an unfair liberal bias.
CNN's exodus was first reported on in November, as stalwart Chris Wallace, and amid reports senior stars like Wolf Blitzer and Jake Tapper have both been denied raises.
The highest paid remaining stars include Anderson Cooper - who rakes in $20million a year - Erin Burnett ($6million) and rising star Kaitlan Collins ($3million).
As a result, reporters and correspondents will be required to cover their slack, they said - describing how on-air workers will be 'asked to assume more of the responsibilities once handled by teams of producers and production assistants.'
Puck News' Dylan Byers wrote: 'Redundant assignments will be nixed, and various divisions will be reduced or even eliminated.
'Some of the on-air talent are also likely to be affected,' he went on to reveal.
Sources who spoke to the reporter, who worked at CNN for three years before founding Puck, added how the looming layoffs are part of an overarching plan - one that puts a premium on the station's digital platforms.
The man behind it, they said, is none other than new CEO Mark Thompson - the former New York Times boss brought in to overhaul the network under its Warner Bros. Discovery parent.
The old BBC boss filled the position left by then-languishing leader Chris Licht this past August, and since then, ratings have fallen more than 20 percent.
Under Licht - a tenure that lasted a little over a year - the station fell from being the most-watched cable news network on election nights, to one of the least.
In 2016, when it was headed by since-ousted leader Jeff Zucker, it was the most watched network overall - a distinction that's now held by Fox News.
At the time, CNN had averaged 13.3million viewers in primetime. Today, it's only around 800,000.
Right-leaning Fox hosts like Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, Sean Hannity, and Greg Gutfeld, meanwhile, are averaging 2.8 million viewers in the same timeslots - the most in a field that's currently being affected by streaming and other forms of media.
Adding insult to injury was CNN's struggles on election day - a day that eight years ago would've seen it score a decisive ratings victory.
However, following a Trump presidency and a term from the Biden Administration, it lost to MSNBC in terms of ratings - something never seen before as it only drew in 5.1million sets of eyes that night.
MSNBC, meanwhile, raked in 6million - a number eclipsed almost twofold by Fox News' 10.3million.
The numbers, aired this week in the form of Nielsen statistics, appear to show a shifting field when it comes to cable news - one seemingly set to continue with Trump's second term in office.
To combat this, CNN plans to create new positions that will service Thompson’s new digital-first vision, the unnamed insiders told Byers - with one source positing how the incoming changes may even yield a net gain of employees.
Still, if the insiders warning prove true, hundreds of others will lose their positions, the sources said - describing to Byers a climate at the outfit's Manhattan office rife with 'stress and high anxiety.'
As for high-paid figures like Cooper and Burnett, their fates remain uncertain.
Days earlier, The Ankler had reported that Tapper and Blitzer were denied raises, and that officials were mulling a pay cut for Wallace.
The newsletter also revealed how Tapper was instead resigned to a three-year contract - one that would seem him paid the same $7million annually that he had earned in years past.
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Maybe some cut backs in the department of whining are in order. They could ask the CIA to cover a higher percentage of the salaries of on air talent.
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[CNN] Thousands of Southern California residents were under evacuation orders Wednesday as fire crews battled the out-of-control Hughes Fire near the town of Castaic, a suburb in the foothills and mountains of northern Los Angeles County.
As of 5 p.m., the fire impacting both Los Angeles and Ventura counties had burned more than 9,400 acres and was 0% contained, according to Los Angeles County Fire Department Chief Anthony Marrone. No structures have been reported damaged or destroyed, Maronne said at a Wednesday evening news conference.
"We have over 4,000 firefighting personnel assigned to the incident," Marrone said, noting the "robust" ground and air response to the fire.
The National Weather Service extended a red flag warning through Friday morning for most of Los Angeles and Ventura counties as moderate Santa Ana winds continue to move through the area, Marrone added.
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fire started on 22 January; already about as big as DFW airport
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It was because the acreage is just about the same.
LAX is about 3500 acres.
DFW is about 9000 acres which is what the fire covered at the time.
DIA is about 33000 acres.
Maybe I should've said, about 3x the area of LAX
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Apologies, conversions for us in The American Sector.
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[Regnum] A rare emission of black plasma with neutral hydrogen was recorded on the Sun. This was reported on January 22 by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"A very rare, beautiful and even slightly eerie phenomenon occurred today on our star. Right in the center of the visible disk, a ghostly structure of a distinctly black color formed, and then was partially ejected into space, and partially dissipated in the corona. Honestly, it is simply very beautiful, and even knowing what it is, it is still difficult to shake off some kind of mystical feeling," the laboratory's website says.
IKI RAS specialists explained that such colors are produced by neutral hydrogen, which is capable of almost completely absorbing short-wavelength radiation falling on it from behind.
According to scientists, the flare most likely ejected and scattered a cold prominence with a large amount of neutral hydrogen across the Sun's corona, as a result of which the prominence's substance was completely destroyed and disappeared.
“But while this process was going on, for about three hours a black cloud of plasma was observed in the corona, living and spreading along the magnetic lines,” the scientists noted.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on January 1, the Earth was engulfed by a magnetic storm that reached the G3 level, classified as “strong” on the five-point scale of the Institute of Applied Geophysics. Possible problems with satellite systems and radio communications were reported, and residents of mid-latitudes could see the polar lights in the sky.
On January 4, scientists recorded five M-class solar flares and two more of the highest level, X. Class M is considered the fourth most powerful. Flares usually result in emissions of solar plasma, clouds of which, reaching the Earth, are capable of provoking magnetic storms on the planet.
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At some point here shortly Trump is going to send the Canadian government into crisis with tariffs. Justin is trying to stall things by keeping Parliament out of session, but Trump can choke him out at will. Trudeau probably has his overnight kit packed for his emergency trip to DC for another helping of humiliation. He made fun of Trump in his first term. That was a bad mistake.
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[NYPost] President Trump announced Tuesday night that he had granted a “full and unconditional” pardon to Ross Ulbricht, founder of the notorious dark website Silk Road.
Trump, 78, announced his grant of clemency, first reported earlier Tuesday by The Post, on Truth Social.
“I just called the mother of Ross William Ulbright [sic] to let her know that in honor of her and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly, it was my pleasure to have just signed a full and unconditional pardon of her son, Ross,” he wrote.
“The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me. He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!”
A source close to the White House told The Post at midday Tuesday that executive action to turn Ulbricht loose was “incoming.”
“Ross Ulbricht and his family are deeply and eternally grateful to President Trump for his extraordinary act of grace in granting Ross a full and unconditional pardon. After enduring over a decade of incarceration, this decision offers Ross the opportunity to begin anew, to rebuild his life, and to contribute positively to society,” lawyer Brandon Sample told The Post via email.
“This moment marks the end of a long and challenging journey for Ross and his loved ones, and they are overwhelmed with gratitude for this life-changing gesture of mercy and justice.”
Trump had vowed in May to reduce Ulbricht’s life sentence on charges of drug trafficking and money laundering “down to time served” if he won the 2024 election.
Ulbricht was arrested in October 2013 in San Francisco and accused of running the notorious website — which sold drugs and other illegal products while accepting bitcoin as payment — under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.”
Now 40, Ulbricht was convicted in February 2015 on charges including drug trafficking and conspiracies to commit money laundering and computer hacking. He was sentenced that May to two life terms in prison, plus 40 years.
Ulbricht had unsuccessfully appealed his conviction and sentence up to the Supreme Court, leaving him to serve out his time at a maximum-security prison in Arizona.
On Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) sent a letter to Trump asking him to show mercy.
“I write to urge you to follow through on your stated intention to commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht. Mr. Ulbricht is serving two life sentences plus forty years without parole for nonviolent offenses related to the website he launched in early 2011,” Paul’s letter read.
“Like so many others, I am shocked by the harsh sentence imposed on this first-time offender.”
Paul argued that Ulbricht’s sentence is “vastly disproportionate to his crimes,” since “the worst drug sellers on the site received significantly more lenient sentences.”
Trump’s campaign vow pleased many Libertarians, who champion Ulbricht as a pioneer of free markets and held up “Free Ross” signs as Trump spoke at their national convention.
The White House did not immediately respond to inquiries from The Post.
[FoxNews] Colette Peters led the BOP since August 2022 but left on the same day Trump was inaugurated.
The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has resigned from her position, while a Biden-era executive order that sought to phase out the use of private prisons has been repealed amid President Donald Trump's efforts to implement drastic reforms to the Justice Department.
Colette Peters, who has led the BOP since August 2022, is out as director of the beleaguered agency, and she has been replaced by William Lothrop, who had been serving as deputy director of the BOP.
Peters was appointed by then-Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2022 and touted as a reform-minded outsider tasked with rebuilding an agency plagued for years by staff shortages, widespread corruption, misconduct and abuse.
The agency has nearly 36,000 employees and is responsible for more than 155,000 federal inmates.
Lothrop, who says he has more than 30 years’ experience working in the BOP, announced the change via a statement on Tuesday, the day after President Trump was sworn into office. The BOP director is not subject to confirmation by the Senate, per the legal news service Law 360.
"On Jan. 20, 2025, Director Peters separated from the Federal Bureau of Prisons and I will be serving as the Acting Director," Lothrop said. "As we face ongoing challenges, including staffing shortages and operational issues, I am committed to working alongside you to find real solutions that strengthen our facilities. We will continue collaborating with our law enforcement partners and stakeholders to maintain robust programming and support services for inmates."
"Our mission remains clear: to provide a safe, secure and humane environment, ensure public safety, and prepare those in our custody for successful reentry into society," his statement added.
Soon after Trump was elected, Peters announced the closure of six male federal prison camps and one female facility, including the scandal-hit Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, per Forbes.
FCI Dublin had garnered the nickname "rape club" after the Justice Department in December was ordered to pay almost $116 million to 103 women who say they were abused there.
The prison's former warden, Ray Garcia, and at least seven other employees are now in prison themselves for sexually abusing inmates.
During her tenure, Peters appeared before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees and spoke about the challenges the BOP faced, but she had trouble getting results.
In September 2023, Peters was scolded by Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, who said Peters forced them to wait more than a year for answers to written follow-up questions they sent her after she first appeared before the committee in September 2022, leaving them without information critical to fully understanding how the agency runs.
Peters also irked senators by claiming she couldn’t answer even the most basic questions about agency operations — like how many correctional officers are on staff — and by referring to notes and talking points on a tablet computer in front of her.
In 2024, then President Biden signed the Federal Prison Oversight Law, which allowed the Office of Inspector General to conduct more unannounced prison inspections, per Forbes.
Of the inspections OIG has done over the years, it found significant shortages of staff, poor medical care for prisoners, rotten food and dirty living conditions. Peters said she welcomed the law, but that it had not yet been funded.
Trump reversed Executive Order 14006, which had eliminated Justice Department contracts with private prisons. The reversal now allows for new contracts between private prison corporations and the U.S. Marshals Service.
As they do, periodically, because Baha’i is a heresy of Islam, and so as far as the Mad Mullahs are concerned, they need to be strongly encouraged to revert to the Master Religion.
[IsraelTimes] Bahai organization calls arrests part of Tehran’s ‘escalating campaign of persecution’ against members of the religion, including ‘systematic targeting of women’
Iranian authorities on Wednesday arrested 10 women members of the Bahai community, a representative group said, warning of escalating repression against one of the country’s biggest non-Moslem religious minorities.
"Security forces arrested 10 Bahai women, without arrest warrants or prior notification, in a series of shocking home raids," the Bahai International Community (BIC), which represents, at the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... , the interests of faith members worldwide, said in a statement.
It said security agents scaled walls, coerced neighbors and even posed as utility workers to force entry into the women’s homes, "subjecting them to distressing and invasive searches."
The women face charges including participation in conducting "deviant" educational and propaganda activities contrary to Islamic law.
"The Iranian government has once again shown its true face," said Simin Fahandej, BIC representative at the UN in Geneva, calling the raids "yet another senseless act against women who are completely innocent."
"Their so-called ’crime’ was to serve their local communities, and now the Iranian government has detained them in violent mostly peaceful home raids," she said.
The BIC called the arrests "part of a systematic and escalating campaign of persecution against the Bahai."
In December, UN experts in a statement voiced concern over "what appears to be an increase in systematic targeting of women" belonging to the Bahai minority throughout Iran.
US-based rights group Human Rights Watch said in April that the Iranian authorities’ persecution of the Bahais since the Islamic revolution of 1979 constitutes a "crime against humanity of persecution."
Unlike other minorities, Bahais have not had their faith recognized by Iran’s constitution, and have no reserved seats in parliament.
How many members of the community remain in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... is not known, but activists believe there could still be several hundred thousand.
The Bahai faith is a relatively young monotheistic religion with spiritual roots dating back to the early 19th century in Iran.
Senior community figures Mahvash Sabet, a 71-year-old poet, and Fariba Kamalabadi, 62, were both arrested in July 2022, and are serving 10-year jail sentences. Both women had previously been tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! by the authorities over the past two decades.
Sabet risks being sent back to prison after being given leave for open heart surgery, supporters have warned, while Kamalabadi remains in jail.
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I remember looking at the Baha’i back in the early 2000’s. They had some influencer that I devoted a dislike for. Maybe I would agree with his point of view now but I expect not.
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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.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
