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Do you really think they will serve long sentences.
I'm sure that the victim must have done something to deserve it - having a white skin for example - or wearing shoelaces which, as *everyone knows*, is a dog whistle for 'noose'.
Just wait until the sainted reverend Jesse Jackson and Reverend Al Sharpton get to town.
(and yes... I better include a /SARC tag here! I have to go wash my hands now.)
In an interview this week with Barbara Walters of ABC News, Obama and the first lady, Michelle, said they may live in Washington beyond their time in the White House to allow their younger daughter, Sasha, to graduate from Sidwell Friends School. Hmmmm.... A public school, I wonder?
She would be a high school sophomore at the end of the president's second term, giving the family a couple years to enjoy, or endure, Washington as private citizens. Maybe Hilly would make him or Michelle Sec State.
"We gotta make sure that she's doing well . . . until she goes off to college," Obama told Walters. "Sasha will have a big say in where we are."
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He'll need to be close for his trial treason trial
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Oh I think he'll leave after 2016 - he would have served his purpose to his masters (and yes I do mean to use that word) after all. He might even be able to enjoy retirement.
The question is who will his handlers attempt to replace him with. Hillary is too independent. Michelle lacks experience (but does have skin color and gender going for her). Who will the lighbringer 'anoint'?
[An Nahar] One man was killed when gangs of Mohammedans and Christians clashed in central Egypt over a relationship between a Coptic Christian and a Mohammedan woman, state news agency MENA reported Friday.
It said the Mohammedan man was killed when violence erupted late Thursday in an area called Deir Muwass in Minya province.
The fighting stopped during the night but resumed after Friday prayers when a Mohammedan mob set ablaze two houses owned by Christians in the area, MENA said.
Six people were also maimed in Friday's violence, it said, adding that police intervened to stop the fighting.
Egypt's Christians, mostly Copts, account for six to 10 percent of the country's 85-million population.
Rights groups say Copts have come under repeated attacks, mainly in the central provinces of Minya and Assiut since the ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator...
They have long complained of discrimination and marginalization, particularly under the presidency of Morsi who was removed from power by the army in July.
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[Egypt Independent] Two coppers were sent to four days in prison pending investigations, on charges of assaulting prosecutor Haitham Magdi Ghoneim and restraining him with handcuffs in a police checkpoint in Tanta, Gharbiya, after the three exchanged accusations of beating each other.
Police officers and security personnel in Gharbiya threatened to go on strike and start a sit-in against the decision to imprison the two officers, Mohammed Mustafa Hammad and Mohab al-Sayes, and claimed that their colleagues in all governorates would support them as well.
Reconciliation efforts made under the sponsorship of security and judicial leaders, under the supervision of Gharbiya Security Directorate Osama Bedier, failed because of the stance of the officers and the prosecutor, who rejected any attempts to reconcile them, after mutual accusations of assaults, said a security source.
The Tanta Attorney General asked the forensics department to examine the coppers and the prosecutor to prove the charges of mutual assault.
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[An Nahar] A militia accused of mass rape and murder in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... is ready to lay down its weapons, the head of the U.N. mission said Friday, urging the army to restore order in the vicinity.
A self-defense militia led by "General" Sheka Ntabo Ntaberi and known as Sheka Mai Mai has been active in the region at least three years, battling rival forces for control of gold mines.
"Thirty-six hours ago, (the town of) Pinga was liberated from the Sheka Mai Mai and of Sheka himself. Now it's vital to restore the authority of the state as soon as possible," Martin Kobler told Agence La Belle France Presse in a brief interview.
At the end of October, the U.N. mission to the country, MONUSCO, reported that "at least 34 civilians, including 20 children (aged between six months and 17 years) were killed with extreme violence" by the Sheka Mai Mai in villages in Masisi territory, North Kivu.
The militia is also accused of taking part in the rape of almost 400 people in July and August 2010 in the Walikale territory, adjoining the Masisi.
An arrest warrant for its leader has been issued by state prosecutors and MONUSCO has denounced "serious rights violations, which could constitute crimes under international law, notably crimes against humanity."
Kobler made no mention of a surrender by Sheka himself and did not say how many militia members had turned themselves in, but on Wednesday MONUSCO reported that 140 fighters from the force had surrendered between November 19 and 27.
According to Kobler, Sheka Mai Mai forces were prepared to go to military lodgings that already hold hundreds of former fighters who have turned themselves in since the surrender on November 5 of rebels of the Movement of March 23 (M23), after an 18-month uprising.
The U.N. special envoy to the central African Great Lakes region, Mary Robinson, warned Friday that development in the Democratic Republic of the Congo depended on disarming all armed movements.
"To enable development, the other gangs must come out of the bush," Robinson said in the eastern city of Goma.
The military defeat of the M23 was a major boost to the Congolese army, which received help during its campaign from a special U.N. intervention brigade that operates under an unprecedented mandate to target and neutralize armed movements, which are rife in the east.
But several dozen armed movements -- community-based militias, army defectors and rebel forces, both native to the DR Congo and from neighboring Rwanda and Uganda -- are highly active in the east and often involved in the struggle to control its rich mineral resources.
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[An Nahar] Ivory Coast will hold its next presidential polls in October 2015, said President Alassane Ouattara ...the current president-for-life of Ivory Coast. He actually beat his predecessor in an election before having to eject him from the presidential palazzo.... , whose election in 2010 touched off a wave of violence that left 3,000 dead.
Ouattara did not declare definitively that he would seek a second term. But on Friday he told supporters gathered in central Ivory Coast's Bouake: "I will be here campaigning in September 2015."
Five months of deadly unrest followed the last election as strongman Laurent Gbagbo ... Former President-for-Life of Ivory Coast from 2000 to 2011. Laurent lost to Alassane Ouattara in 2010 but his representtive tore up the results on the teevee and he refused to vacate the presidential palace. French troops assisted the Oattara forces in extricating him from his Fuhrerbunker... refused to concede defeat. It ended only when the former president was captured in April 2011.
Gbagbo is now in the custody of the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... , where he is accused of criminal masterminding a campaign of violence during the standoff in the west African country.
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Ethiopia has flown home over 50,000 citizens in Saudi Arabia after a crackdown against illegal immigrants in the oil-rich state, the foreign ministry said Wednesday.
So who's going to do the domestic work? As we learned from .com some time back, a Saudi man won't lift anything heavier than his purse...
We projected the initial number to be 10,000 but it is increasing, foreign ministry spokesman Dina Mufti told AFP, adding that the final total once the mass airlift ends is now expected to be around 80,000.
Ethiopia started repatriating citizens living illegally in Saudi Arabia after a seven-month amnesty period to formalize their status expired on November 4, sparking violent protests between Saudi police and Ethiopian migrants preparing to leave the country. The Ethiopian government said three of its citizens were killed in clashes.
Dina said the government is spending $2.6 million (1.9 million euros) on the repatriation program to bring citizens home, the majority women.
Ethiopia has said relations with Saudi Arabia remain sisterly, with Dina saying the government's main priority was to bring citizens home.
We are focusing on the repatriation... we have not evaluated that one, we have not assessed that, he said, referring to Ethio-Saudi ties.
Large numbers of Ethiopians -- often women seeking domestic work -- travel to the Middle East each year looking for jobs. Around 200,000 women sought work abroad in 2012, according to Ethiopia's ministry of labor and social affairs.
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) said many face physical and mental abuse, low pay, discrimination and poor working conditions.
Reports of mistreatment of Ethiopians in Saudi Arabia has sparked outrage in Ethiopia. In an emotional speech this month, Ethiopias Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom said the government was in around the clock crisis management mode trying to bring citizens back.
With 91 million citizens, Ethiopia is Africa's most populous country after Nigeria, but also one of the continents poorest, with the majority of people earning less than two dollars a day. Around 27 percent of women and 13 percent of men are unemployed, according to the ILO.
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Can the USA send one illegal Kenyan worker currently in the DC area home immediately?
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Or maybe he could go replace one of the Ethiopians - he's proven he knows how to bow.
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Dozens of shops and restaurants across the country were forced to close as illegal migrants went into hiding or returned to their home countries to avoid being arrested or prosecuted.
[Yemen Post] Al-Quds al-Arabi, which with other international media has followed closely the case of Yemen's eloping couple, Huda al-Hiran (22 year-old Saudi national) and Arafat Mohammed Taher al-Qadi (25 year-old Yemeni national), has warned in its latest report, that Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... had taken serious umbrage to Yemen's refusal to repatriate the young runaway.
Huda's cry for love and calls for mercy prompted Yemenis to rise in her behalf and exert pressure on both the central government and Yemen's judicial system. Charged with illegally entering the country, Huda faced a series of aggravated charges, notwithstanding a forced return to Saudi Arabia.
Knowing that Huda would face much more than a jail sentence should she be made to travel to the Kingdom, Yemen rights activists reached out to UNHCR, calling on the UN officers to grant her refugee status on humanitarian grounds.
On Wednesday, Huda's saga ended on a happy note, when UNHCR officials confirmed that her demand had been successful. Armed with her refugee status, the Yemeni authorities will have no other alternative but to let her go free of charge.
Sources within the government already confessed that prosecutors' decision to delay Huda's hearing to December 1st has been done in the hope the UNHCR would make a decision for Yemen by granting her refugee request, thus allowing Yemen not to defy Saudi Arabia too openly.
With the UNHCR having stepped in and taken charge of Huda, Yemen officials can argue they have no other alternative but to comply with international law.
Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... which spear-headed the anti-repatriation campaign called on Yemeni President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi to not fall prey to Saudi Arabia's political pressure and consider instead Huda's well-fare and right to happiness.
However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... while most Yemenis welcomed Huda's asylum status as a success, Saudis have been left reeling, furious that a woman could have managed to so blatantly defy social and religious etiquette and still escape punishment.
Punishment is exactly why rights activists have so virulently defended Huda, aware that her return to Saudi Arabia will be accompanied by swift vengeance from both the state and her shamed family.
"With a woman's safety at stake, the Yemeni authorities should allow UNHCR to interview her," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director. "Many Saudi women have a very real fear of violence and worse if they marry a man who isn't their family's choice."
While one can hope that Yemen's very own Romeo and Juliet will be able to run into the sunset and enjoy their happily ever after, officials in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a are bracing themselves for potential political and diplomatic fallouts.
Given recent frictions in between Sana'a and Riyadh over Saudi Arabia's new labour law, and its aid interruption, relations are likely to remain strain.
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[An Nahar] America's plain old telephone network is rapidly being overtaken by new technology, putting U.S. regulators in a quandary over how to manage the final stages of transformation.
Though the timing remains unclear, the impact of change and what it means for roughly 100 million Americans who remain reliant on the dated but still-functional system of copper wires and switching stations is up for debate.
The Federal Communications Commission is working toward drafting rules in January to formalize the IP transition -- switching communications systems to Internet protocol.
And while FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler hails the technological advance, he has also spoken of maintaining the "set of values" that was used to ensure America's universal phone service.
But some argue the government should step aside and allow the marketplace to keep moving toward digital standards, given that many consumers already use voice over Internet (VoIP) lines, mobile phones or various Web-based chat systems such as Skype instead of traditional telephone service.
"Almost everyone will be off this network in the next four years. It is a dead model walking," said Scott Cleland, of the research and consulting firm Precursor LLC, noting that three quarters of the transition is done.
Cleland, a former White House telecom policy adviser, said that even if people wanted to keep the old system, "they are not making the switches anymore for this. And the engineers they need to keep it alive are retiring."
As a result, Cleland said the question is not if, but when the last people will be phased out of the old system, though the transition should not be harmed by "burdensome economic regulations," such as mandates or price caps.
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Waitaminit! Prezadint Obumbles should jump on this to revive jobs just like the Golden State Corridor Choo-Choo!
Back to the future, baby! Re-do the 19th century!
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Of course the govt thinks folks should switch to cell service. A call made on hardwired copper requires a wiretap warrant, whereas cell com is radio and freely intercepted. By anyone with the right radio gear; the local police have several 'cell follower' units that they use in trailing suspects, usually drug types, but if they're not busy, basically anyone.
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Tex, True. A pickup was driving too slow on a city street one day for quite a few blocks when someone in the line of cars behind the pickup pulled in front of the pickup and just sat there blocking it while everyone went around it. Cop cars came in and informed the driver doing the blocking maneuver that the pickup had two undercover police who were tracking a drug dealer suspect in a vehicle one block over on a parallel street, clearly by homing in on his cell phone signal one street over. No warrant required I betcha.
[An Nahar] A U.S. city welcomed Wednesday a court ruling which could force the closure of a U.S. factory that makes famed Sriracha chili sauces, after neighbors complained of spicy smells.
The Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, city of Irwindale, outside Los Angeles, asked last month for Huy Fong Food's facility to be closed and that the company be forced to improve odor-filtering measures.
On Tuesday LA Superior Court judge Robert H. O'Brien ruled in favor of the city, ordering the sauce maker to stop any operations that could cause smells and immediately take steps to lessen the odors.
The full impact of the ruling was not immediately clear. It does not stop the company operating completely or say what actions need to be taken, according to the LA Times.
But the city hailed the decision.
"We are pleased by the ruling and expect that it will be final and in force by December 9," Irwindale City Attorney Fred Galante told Agence La Belle France Presse, without elaborating.
The legal action has threatened next year's supplies of Chili Garlic, Sambal Oelek, and the wildly popular Sriracha "rooster" sauce, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The chilis for next year's sauce supplies are all harvested and ground in a three-month time period that is just completed, but the bottling and mixing is continuous, the Times said.
Representatives for Huy Fong Foods have not responded to requests for comment on the ruling.
Sriracha sauce, of which Huy Fong Foods is the biggest producer in the United States, takes its name from the town of Si Racha in Thailand, where the hot sauce was first produced.
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Irwindale is an industrial town. The Miller brewery along the 210 stinks all the time
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My family swears by the stuff. Says it puts hair on your chest.
Maybe that's why we're all covered with hair, even the wimmenfolk.
[Pak Daily Times] Turkey's once all-powerful prime minister is battling problems on both the domestic and international fronts that threaten to diminish his popularity ahead of an election cycle next year.
With three straight election wins under his belt, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dominated Turkish politics for 11 years and enjoyed a free hand in crafting government policy.
But the tough-talking leader known as the "Sultan" who took office promising bold reforms has become an increasingly polarising figure in Turkey and now faces a key test in local polls in March.
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"hidden Islamist agenda"
only hidden to the blind
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[An Nahar] Comet ISON appears to have flown too close to the surface of the sun Thursday and vanished as it circled the fiery surface, astronomers said.
The large block of ice and rock had been expected to skim just 730,000 miles (1.17 million kilometers) above the sun's surface around 1830 GMT.
It was estimated that ISON would undergo temperatures of 4,900 degrees Fahrenheit (2,700 Celsius) and lose three million tonnes of its mass per second as it made its journey around the sun.
Most astronomers had predicted that ISON would not survive the trip.
Several solar observatories watched the comet during its closest approach to the sun, known as perihelion.
And the comet became faint while still within view of NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, and the joint European Space Agency and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, however, could not see the comet.
"It does seem that comet ISON probably has not survived its journey," Naval Research Laboratory comet scientist Karl Battams said after looking at space images.
"I am not seeing anything that emerges from behind the solar disk and that I think could be the nail in the coffin," he told a roundtable organized by the U.S. space agency NASA.
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Update via spaceweather.com mailing list: COMET ISON LIVES: Cancel the funeral. Comet ISON is back from the dead. Yesterday, Nov. 28th, Comet ISON flew through the sun's atmosphere and appeared to disintegrate before the cameras of several NASA and ESA spacecraft. This prompted reports of the comet's demise. Today, the comet has revived and is rapidly brightening. Images and updates at http://spaceweather.com .
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The question that needs answering, has the near fly by had any effect on the orbital trajectory? Since most scientists dismissed it's survival, has the significant mass reduction changed the orbital dynamics?
[NY Times] Antigovernment protesters broke into and briefly occupied the grounds of Thailand's army headquarters on Friday, capping a week of dramatic and provocative gestures against the country's most influential political family.
The protests against the dominance of Thaksin Shinawatra, the billionaire tycoon in exile, and his sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, the country's prime minister, have included seizing the Finance Ministry, cutting power to Police Headquarters and occupying a large government facility.
The protests are the largest in the country since a military crackdown left more than 90 people dead three years ago. This time the government and the military have been strikingly restrained in their reaction. The government says this is a deliberate strategy of nonconfrontation to avoid violence.
"We have not placed in durance vile Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! a single protester so far," Maj. Gen. Piya Uthayo, a police front man, said by telephone. Arresting protesters is "not our policy," he said.
Despite provocations by protesters, festivities between demonstrators and the police have been minimal. Protesters deflated the tires of police vans and were said to have used slingshots against a police officer, whose bloodied face was shown in the Thai media.
But another police front man, Maj. Anucha Ramayanand, said in a news media briefing on Friday that the police had received intelligence reports of possible disorder in the coming days that could lead to violence. The police have been ordered to "protect buildings and guard against possible calamity."
The military went out of its way on Friday to back away from confrontation.
Television footage showed protesters breaking down the gates and charging into the army compound. But once they were inside, soldiers offered them water and medics performed free health checks.
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Actually, some Indian tribes were victims of genocide. The Iroquois wiped out the Huron, the Erie and others. The Sioux nearly succeeded in their attempt to kill all the Pawnee. The Sioux themselves likely would have been exterminated by the Ojibwa if they had not fled from the forests to the Great Plains. So it is not unreasonable to link the word genocide with American Indian tribes.
However, the liberals claim that the U.S. government (or more broadly, European settlers in what is now the U.S.) committed genocide is contemptible. If our government had wanted to exterminate the Indians, it could easily have done so. Native numbers were reduced by the arrival of Europeans, but not because the settlers killed them. While I know of no accurate tally, the Indians may have killed as many Europeans as the Europeans killed Indians. The Indians were in general far more warlike, and not infrequently better armed.
What did reduce Indian numbers significantly was disease, especially smallpox and cholera. Beyond that, the depleted Indian populations were overwhelmed demographically by the vastly more numerous whites, and many of them intermarried and joined the more advanced European/American culture. While the story of the American Indians is often tragic, it is anything but a history of genocide.
So, can Europeans claim the genocide meme too with the introduction of the Black Plague from central Asia that killed millions, estimated a quarter of the entire continental population, a third of England, and half of Scandinavia.
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Don't forget that the arrival of syphillus in europe coincided with the return of Columbus's crews, so the genome transmission wasn't totally one way.
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This fall semester at the liberal arts college in New York saw a curiously high number of bias incident reports. On Nov. 14, the college sent a mass email to students advising them that Bias Incident Response Team (BIRT) had received at least six reports in the last few months of hateful and insensitive messages being scrawled and spray painted on student residences.
This is unacceptable and members of our community should be able to learn and work in environments that are free of hurtful expressions and behaviors, wrote Edward Pittman, BIRT coordinator and dean of the College for Campus Life and Diversity, in an email to Vassar students. The email also outlined BIRTs purpose and role in bias incident response. The task force receives the reports of bias incidents, meets with victims, and provides support for campus efforts to foster diversity and inclusion.
Five days after that email was sent, Vassar President Catharine Hill sent a follow-up email.
It is our unfortunate duty to report that two Vassar students have admitted responsibility for creating a number of recent bias and hate-speech messages in public spaces on campus, wrote Hill. They also falsely reported these as anonymous messages. Sadly, our community has been deeply hurt by these actions.
The email noted that the two students had admitted responsibility and withdrawn from the college voluntarily. Their names were not reported.
The Bias Incident Response Team had one student member: Genesis Hernandez, who is transgendered and was also a vice president of the Vassar Student Association (VSA), the student government. The Daily Caller (The DC) learned that one of the perpetrators was none other than Genesis Hernandez. Informed sources within Vassar told The DC that administrators pinpointed Hernandez as a responsible party, forcing him to give up his position in student government and leave the college. Leaked conversations between student government members also paint Hernandez as the culprit.
On the same day that Hills email went out, VSA President Deborah Steinberg sent an email of her own announcing an election to fill the now-vacant VSA vice president position.
Hernandez has withdrawn from the college. His vassar.edu address no longer works, and as such, he did not respond to a request for comment. A representative for the college also declined to comment. Vassars only statement on the matter remains Hills email, in which she acknowledged that the campus might now be skeptical of BIRTs efforts, but stressed the need to continue them.
The outcome of this most recent investigation in no way diminishes our commitment to working toward a more just, diverse, egalitarian and inclusive campus community, she wrote.
The DC could not determine the other perpetrators identity, nor was it clear which student wrote and falsely reported which messages.
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"The outcome of this most recent investigation in no way diminishes our commitment to working toward a more just, diverse, egalitarian and inclusive campus community," she wrote.
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.
International Criminal Court
[An Nahar] Comet ISON appears to have flown too close to the surface of the sun Thursday and vanished as it circled the 
