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Maybe he did confess to her, just not about the homicide. Hittin' on her to dump her old man and marry him, 'cause he knows a sister would be better for him than a white woman.
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Hatfield is dead, dead, dead, there's a non-zero chance he done the deed. But he took his remorse to his grave.
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Hatfield was a sweet Goldie, a good bird dog and much too dignified for such a thing. And when a Goldie's too dignified you KNOW it's a non-starter.
A woman died from a heart attack caused by shock after waking up to discover she had been declared dead - and was being prepared for burial.
As mourning relatives filed past her open coffin the supposedly dead woman suddenly woke up and started screaming as she realised where she was.
Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov, 49, had been wrongly declared deceased by doctors but died for real after hearing mourners saying prayers for her soul to be taken up to heaven in Kazan, Russia.
Devastated husband Fagili Mukhametzyanov, 51, had been told his wife had died of a heart attack after she'd collapsed at home suffering from chest pains.
Mr Mukhametzyanov said: 'Her eyes fluttered and we immediately rushed her back to the hospital but she only lived for another 12 minutes in intensive care before she died again, this time for good.
'I am very angry and want answers. She wasnt dead when they said she was and they could have saved her.'
Hospital spokesman Minsalih Sahapov said: 'We are carrying out an investigation.'
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That Russian Vodka can raise the dead and then kill them again. Potent stuff.
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Very reason father of deh country insisted on a 3 days waiting period in his will. Can't be to careful these days, clawmarks on casket lids and such.
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Premature burial became a very big part of the Gothic fad caused by the lethal tuberculosis epidemic. It was such a weird and unpredictable disease, that it about drove people nuts.
It would attack about any internal organ. If it hit the spine, it could put a person into a wheelchair. It could drive another person insane. Some would become hyper-artistic or hyper-sexual. Someone else would look fit as a fiddle then drop dead.
And many had a gray pallor and looked starved, as their digestion had been inhibited.
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Oh, and to be relevant, in some people it could cause a deep, intermittent catatonia. For this reason, since they might not feel a pulse, to stick a needle into the hand and hold a mirror under the nose.
And it really didn't help that some healthy, athletic people get strong spasms shortly after death. There are cases where dead people have even jumped off of hospital gurneys.
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Weird skies = lights + aurorae over NORTH, NE GUAM, + micro-tectonic/fault ground movements.
MOTHER EARTH BEING "ALIVE", + DOING HER THINGY.
FYI NASA, Solar Perts fear that a repeat of the explosive 1859 CARRINGTON EVENT is possible wid the on-going decline in sunspot activity, but they aren't sure of the magnitude = potency iff it does occur.
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Nothing going on in Anchorage. However, we have crews out in Atka building a water tank and treatment plant, though they are 122 miles west along the Aleutian Chain. Should have a report from them this morning at work.
Tsunami warning cancelled:
CANCELLATION: M7.3 020 SE AMUKTA PASS, AK. 2010PDT JUN 23: No tsunami observed
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Our construction crew in Atka felt the earth moving about and saw it, too. Pretty good quake. Everyone in town went up in the hills in anticipation of a possible tsunami, but no tsunami came, so back to work.
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"Everyone in town went up in the hills in anticipation of a possible tsunami"
What, they didn't wait on the Feds to tell them what to do, and provide transportation?
What's the matter with you guys? Get with the program!
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We wish to live. When the earth moves under one's feet, we wait for no one to tell us what to do. That is how we survive......heh.
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When the earth moves under one's feet, we wait for no one to tell us what to do.
Baby dawgs, listen and heed. Thisn about your head and heart, listen to them and live long.
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[Al Jazeera] Opposition protesters have taken to the streets of the Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... ese capital, Dakar, over proposed changes to the constitution that opponents argue would allow the incumbent president to easily retain power in next February's elections.
Private television stations in Senegal showed footage of Thursday's protests against the 85-year-old president, Abdoulaye Wade, in cities and towns elsewhere around the West African nation.
Witnesses told Al Jizz that police fired tear-gas and water cannons at thousands of protesters chanting "Leave Wade" and "Don't touch my constitution" around the National Assembly and presidential palace in Dakar.
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A historic win for Chris Christie. Taste the bitter tears of union members "forced" to pay their fair share.
New Jersey lawmakers tonight voted to enact a sweeping plan to cut public worker benefits after a long day of high-pitched political drama in the streets and behind closed doors.
Union members chanted outside the Statehouse and in the Assembly balcony, and dissident Democrats tried to stall with amendments and technicalities. Although they successfully convinced top lawmakers to remove a controversial provision restricting public workers access to out-of-state medical care, they failed to halt a historic defeat for New Jerseys powerful unions and a political victory for Republican Gov. Chris Christie.
Nearly 8500 people gathered in the streets surrounding the Statehouse in Trenton to defend their stance on pension and benefit reform. Collective bargaining was the overall theme, but some delved deeper as to what exactly is important to them and their families as a bill awaits a vote in the state assembly.
"Together, were showing New Jersey is serious about providing long-term fiscal stability for our children and grandchildren," Christie said in a statement released after the vote. "We are putting the people first and daring to touch the third rail of politics in order to bring reform to an unsustainable system."
Imagine, a governor keeping the promises he campaigned on.
By the way, support was bipartisan. The media should love that, right?
Supporters of the bill including Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester) and Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver (D-Essex) have said the state needs to cut costs because the pension and health systems are underfunded by more than $120 billion in total.
Christie, who has staked his reputation on shrinking government costs, has called the bill an example for the rest of the country. New Jersey is one of 23 states that have asked employees to pay more for their pensions since the Wall Street financial crisis battered retirement systems in 2008, according to the Pew Center on the States.
Consider this a win-win for Christie, and a stinging defeat for the unions. Oh well.
Todays union protest, like other recent demonstrations, did nothing to stop the bill. But it did highlight the growing fissures in the state Democratic Party, which has struggled to counter Christie.
The crybabies at the NY Times call it "deep cuts" and a "broad rollback" of worker rights. Aww.
What we've got here is a governor who's taken an unsustainable debt load and put our state on the path toward fiscal sanity. Contrast him with the current occupant of the White House, who's managed to do the exact opposite.
(KUNA) -- The President of the European Parliament (EP) Jerzy Buzek Thursday urged the Greeks to "show patience, understanding and strength." "The current reforms are likely to be a turning-point. The choice is between a possible economic and political collapse and a slow return to the normality of growth and sustainable debt levels," he said in a speech to the summit of EU leaders here tonight.
Buzek said he welcomes the announcement by the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso of fast tracking 1 billion euro through structural funds to help with the immediate unemployment crisis in Greece.
The Greek debt crisis is dominating the 2-day summit of EU leaders which kicked off here tonight.
The Greek parliament is expected to vote next Tuesday on a new package of austerity measures in order to get the next installment of 12 billion euro from a 110 billion euro bailout it received from the EU and the IMF last year to save the country from bankruptcy.
The EU is now contemplating to give a second loan to Greece amid warnings by economists that the country which has a huge public debt of 340 billion euro is heading for a default.
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GREECE + SIMILAR TROUBLED EUROS ...
versus
* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > SINO-US CRASH WILL BRING [entire] ASIA-PACIFIC REGION INTO TOTAL MESS.
Yeeeuuuppp, + "PEAK OIL/RESOURCES" + SOLAR STORMS + COMET APOPHIS, etc. don't necessarily have to have anything to do wid it.
OWG, "Globalism", + PRO-US-VS-ANTI-US NWO will suffuce by itself.
ARTIC > Greece's debt = 150% of its GDP; It is more correct to ascribe Greece's sovereign debt probs as linked to perennial, massive Internal or Govt corruption scandal than anything else, for which ordinary Greeks are now paying the price???
* SAME > US [+ various EU States] IN EVEN WORSE FINANCIAL SHAPE THAN GREECE: GROSS.
A rambling disjointed (which is why I didn't post any of it) article by Caroline Glick (who usually writes for the Jerusalem Post) but the point is that she has attended (or covered) two fund raising dinners where medium to big Jewish contributors fell for Obama's double talk (only one of these is covered in any detail).
Caroline attributes this to the donors wanting to 'feel good about themselves' but I think it is also due to a type of self blindness. A lot of Jews would be heartbroken if they thought that Obama was anti Israel and thus they disregard all evidence that would indicate this. It is a common mistake.
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I sure hope they think they got their money's worth -- not that they'd admit to an anti-Obama Israeli reporter in front of their friends if they realized they'd been had.
It will be interesting to see how many Jewish American voters decide not to pull the lever for a presidential candidate next time... or just stay home. For those who wonder, former New York City Mayor Ed Koch announced he is so angry at President Obama for misleading him that he'll be staying home. We'll see if he has as much influence as he did when he announced himself reassured by Obama in 2008.
"ATF served Special Agent Vince Cefalu with termination paperwork today."
That's the word from Jay Dobyns, himself a subject of Bureau retaliation, in a post on CleanUpATF.
Gun Rights Examiner reported on Cefalu in May of last year--He was the agent assigned to do nothing because he came forward to complain about ATF mismanagement.
A congressional investigation into a controversial federal gun-running surveillance operation is moving to Mexico this week amid new reports that two AK-47s sold in Arizona during the operation were found at the scene of a shootout with the suspected killers of a well-known Mexican attorney. This is a new report. To see the Rantburg report on the discovery of Mario Gonzalez click here. Some additional background concerning the murder of Mario Gonzalez and official links to Mexican organzied crime can be found here.As of this date Patricia Gonzalez has not been changed with any crime, nor has she been cleared.
According to testimony provided to investigators with the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the two guns were sold to a straw buyer watched by agents of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, who were under orders not to stop the guns from crossing the border. The ATF surveillance program, called Operation Fast and Furious, was supposed to lead to the arrests of high-level drug cartel figures.
On Friday, oversight committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Vista), who has been leading the investigation of the ATF operation with Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), will travel with a bipartisan delegation to Mexico, partly in an attempt to draw the government there further into the investigation. Bipartisan delegation? I hope he's got some big ole bodyguards with him --- maybe even some ATF guys that are really ticked off about this entire mess.
In a letter this week to Mexico's U.S. ambassador, Arturo Sarukhan, Issa and Grassley requested serial numbers of all firearms recovered in "substantial" violent crimes, along with the numbers of any other weapons that government officials have reason to believe may be connected to the operation. Rantburg posted a translated article from the Mexican leftist weekly Proceso of an interview of ATF agent John Dodson. The Rantburg article of that interview can be found by clicking here.
"This information would be tremendously helpful to us in determining the full scale of the effects of Operation Fast and Furious, which includes the deaths of both Mexican and American citizens," the two lawmakers wrote. "We have a shared interest with you in getting to the bottom of this matter."
Issa will be joined by eight other U.S. lawmakers for meetings Saturday in Mexico City at the federal police command center and also with representatives of the U.S. Embassy. Hopefully, that dimwit Dem, the Honorable Elijah E. Cummings from Maryland, isn't one of them. He's running some interference and turning this thing "into politics" while pleading "not to turn it into politics." Last Issa hearing, "It's all about love."
Mexican officials have not commented on the latest revelations about the two AK-47s linked to the Gonzalez case.
"What I can tell you is there are investigations underway, and as a matter of policy, we don't comment on ongoing investigations. We will wait and see what comes out of those investigations," said Ricardo Alday Gonzalez, spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington.
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...What strikes me as odd - and perhaps I just haven't been checking the right sources - is a surprising amount of silence from Mexico. I mean, by any reasonable definition, this was an act of war. You'd think that Mexico would be going apeshiat right about now...
Mike
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The Mexican Foreign Office stated in a press release that it has proceded to request detailed information from United States authorities in this matter and indicated that the government of Mexico will continue with special interest the investigations announced by both the ATF and the Justice Department [of the United States].
[The operation] is a grave violation of international rights, Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín, president of Mexico's lower house of Congress, said Tuesday. What will happen if next time theyll need to funnel in trained assassins, for example, or nuclear arms?
Fellow congressman Humberto Trevino claims that an estimated 150 shooting injuries or deaths have been linked to guns that were allowed by US agents to proceed into Mexico.
The acting director of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is strongly resisting pressure to step down because of growing controversy over the agency's surveillance program that allowed U.S. guns to flow unchecked into Mexico, according to several federal sources in Washington.
Kenneth E. Melson, who has run the bureau for two years, is reportedly eager to testify to Congress about the extent of his and other officials' involvement in the operation, code-named Fast and Furious.
Melson does not want to be "the fall guy" for the program, under which ATF agents allowed straw purchasers to acquire more than 1,700 AK-47s and other high-powered rifles from Arizona gun dealers, the sources said. Bet he's no Ollie North... immunity and I'll tell all.
The idea was to track the guns to drug cartel leaders. But that goal proved elusive, and the guns turned up at shootings in Mexico, as well as at the slaying in Arizona of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in December.
"He is saying he won't go," said one source close to the situation, who asked for anonymity because high-level discussions with Melson remained fluid. "He has told them, 'I'm not going to be the fall guy on this.' "
Added a second source, who also requested anonymity: "He's resisting. He does not want to go."
Melson has an open invitation to appear on Capitol Hill. So far, he has not been given Justice Department approval to appear before Congress.
This week, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said he hoped that Melson would give a full accounting of how the gun operation was conceived and carried out. He also said Melson should resign, and that other senior leaders at ATF and the Justice Department should be held accountable as well.
Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also is awaiting answers from Melson, and cautioned this week that even if the acting director stepped down, it "would be, by no means, the end of our inquiry."
The Justice Department said it was cooperating with congressional leaders.
"We've been working with the [Issa] committee on interviews, including Melson, and will continue to do that," said Tracy Schmaler, a Justice Department spokesperson.
At ATF headquarters in Washington, officials said Melson "continues to be focused" on leading the agency. His chief spokesman, Scott Thomasson, added, "We are not going to comment on any speculations" about Melson's status as head of the agency.
At a House hearing last week, testimony from ATF agents portrayed Melson as closely involved in overseeing the venture. At one point, according to documents released by Congress, he asked for and received log-in information and a link to an Internet feed in order to watch some of the illegal straw purchases.
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Issa needs to demand an Independent Special Counsel to investigate this. The DOJ will stonewall and redact til Obama's thrown out. Subpoenas ignored, contempt citations ignored. They are shameless. Some need to be jailed and lose their pensions
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Some need to be jailed and lose their pensions. I agree with you. But that is a pipe dream. If there is a fall guy, there will be some convenient low level doofus hauled into court.
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BO won't fire the hack, even though this cartoonishly bad plan cost lives. What does that tell us? Discuss.
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"He is saying he won't go," said one source close to the situation, who asked for anonymity because high-level discussions with Melson remained fluid. "He has told them, 'I'm not going to be the fall guy on this.' "
If true, I recommend he not do any driving or visit any parks in the DC area.
A major military association that has been fighting Tricare fee hikes is angry with a House committee, saying it is raiding unspent military medical funds to pay for pet projects for members of Congress in the 2012 budget. The redirected money, which is being used to fund medical research projects, could have been used to cover the rising costs of military health care, said retired Marine Lt. Gen. Jack Klimp, president of the Springfield, Va.-based National Association for Uniformed Services (NAUS).
The House Appropriations Committee took $330 million in unspent Tricare funds from the previous year to pay for 22 medical research programs requested by members of Congress, including most of the members of the committee. For example, the committee funds research into several types of cancer, including pediatric brain tumors, and pancreatic, kidney, blood and colorectal cancers that are not directly related to the military.
Money also is provided for research, not requested by the Defense Department, into treatment of spinal cord injuries, transplants, controlling hemorrhage, and traumatic brain injury that, despite having a direct military link, could duplicate other research, according to the NAUS.
Former president Pervez Musharafs aide-de-camp Major (R) Tanveer Ali was found dead in his suite in the limits of the Shalimar Police Station on Thursday.
Alis family stated that he had committed suicide but no fingerprints could be found on the pistol by which he ended his life. Ali happened to be right-handed and as he was shot in the left temple, his killing appears to be a mystery. The dead body was shifted to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) but the heirs avoided having an autopsy.
Meanwhile, a brigadier ranking officer reached the hospital and informed the PIMS administration that he had been instructed to take the body to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH).
As per sources, the family of 44-year-old Tanveer Ali, son of Musharraf Ali, informed police about his suicide at 10:30am.
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too bad Columbo (Peter Falk) died today. I can see him now: "You know, I just have a couple more questions. Something that I'm having a little trouble with"
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[Dawn] The local police on Wednesday tossed in the calaboose five of the 14 accused who stoned and shot a woman to death in Bairoch village here on Tuesday.
Police said that they had been conducting raids for the arrest of the remaining accused, including Mohammad Saeed, husband of the victim Shazia.
Rustam cop shoppe SHO Shah Mumtaz Khan said that according to the postmortem report, the victim received several injuries on her head, face and other parts of body.
It was learnt that sometime back Saeed had killed his own brother on suspicion of having illicit relations with Shazia.
A resident of the area, who requested anonymity, said that Shazia, 23, had received injuries in that occurrence following which she had left her husband`s home and started living with her mother, Noor Jehan. Sources said that Saeed had been required to police in the murder of his brother.
According to preliminary investigation, the SHO said that Shazia, a resident of Barikot in Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... district, had entered into a love marriage with Saeed of Bairoch village six months ago.
He said that according to their information Shazia had left her husband`s house after some domestic dispute and was residing with her mother, who is complainant in the present case.
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"Project Gunwalker" is a story first broken by journalists David Codrea and Mike Vanderboegh..
Codrea and Vanderboegh claim that internal ATF whistleblowers informed them that agency management was knowingly and deliberately allowing hundreds of semiautomatic guns to be walked across the desert border into Mexico.
Although such an act on the part of the ATF - whose job is essentially to prevent gun smuggling - seems unfathomable, Codrea and Vanderboegh reported that by allowing the guns into Mexico, the agency could effectively pad gun-related crime statistics and prove that Mexican drug cartels were using American-derived firearms, all in an effort to encourage continued federal funding of ATF projects.
After a gun used in the killing of U.S. border agent Brian Terry was reportedly linked to an alleged internal ATF smuggling program, media coverage of "Gunrunner/Gunwalker" hit a fever pitch. Codrea and Vanderboegh's findings were soon made available on CleanUpATF.org, with both journalists claiming to have been contacted by ATF insiders who corroborated claims of a gunrunning effort. The creator of CleanUpATF.org was fired Thursday by acting director Melson. Hell hath no fury like an agency administrator going after a whistleblower...
According to Codrea, "Vanderboegh and I, who have a history going back years of documenting allegations posted there, and pressing for congressional hearings to investigate the claims, were both contacted independently by various ATF insiders claiming to have corroborating information and documentation."
In the ensuing media mayhem, a number of national outlets began coverage of the potential scandal, with many calling for congressional investigations into the allegations. In the interim, Codrea and Vanderboegh have stood by their reports, and have defended their sources, individuals who have remained largely anonymous.
According to Codrea, "[Vanderboegh] vetted his sources and I used my contacts to help validate that my informant was who he represented himself to be. Mike [Vanderboegh] and I did what we could throughout our separate and coordinated investigations to test and corroborate what was being told. We also had a small circle of behind-the-scenes consultants, including firearms designer Len Savage, and a few other knowledgeable advisors, all with contacts and informed insights of their own, and all of whom have earned our trust over the years."
As details have continued to surface, allegations paint a picture of an interdepartmental government effort, with members of Justice Department and ATF accused of participating in what has become known as "Project Gunwalker."
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.
