A 39-year-old man was shot three times inside his car early Sunday morning on the Southeast Side and died in his front seat, according to police.
Police responded to a shots-fired call about 3 a.m. and found the man in his car with the window down in the parking lot of Warren Elementary School, 9239 S. Jeffery Blvd. in the Pill Hill neighborhood, police said.
He was shot once in the head and twice in the chest. Police said he had crack cocaine in his hand and more next to his body.
Another person was shot to death after 5 a.m. near the intersection of Montrose and Broadway avenues in the Uptown neighborhood on the North Side, according to police, but details weren't immediately available.
Elsewhere, an 18-year-old man and seven others were maimed in shootings between 9:55 p.m. Saturday and 4 a.m. Sunday, according to police.
The teen was shot about 9:55 p.m. in the 8500 block of South Throop Street in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side. He's in stable, pH balanced condition at Advocate Christ Medical Center with wounds to his right calf and lower back, police said.
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No, no, no. This is unpossible. Privately owned firearms are not permitted in Chicago. This is either a complete fabrication, or Tea Party activists.
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He was shot once in the head and twice in the chest. Police said he had crack cocaine in his hand and more next to his body.
Whacked by someone that knew what they were doing.
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[An Nahar] Moroccan authorities banned the closing ceremony of the ruling party's youth conference that was due to be held on Saturday, citing "security concerns," a party official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"At around 10 pm (on Friday), a local official sent us a document banning the ceremony" due to take place in the northern city of Tangiers, the Justice and Development Party's (PJD) Khalid Bougueri told AFP by telephone.
An interior ministry official requesting anonymity confirmed the ban, saying it had been imposed over "security concerns and to maintain order."
Over 2,000 youths from the moderate Islamist PJD, whose head Abdelila Benkirane is the current Moroccan prime minister, have met over the past week in Tangiers for the annual conference.
Benkirane, who was not initially on the program, was to "deliver a few words" at the closing ceremony, said Bougueri.
During the conference, young Islamists condemned the relationship between Benkirane and King Mohammed VI's entourage, which is accused of overshadowing the government.
"I fear the authorities' decision is Dire Revenge™ for the work of the conference," senior PJD member Abdelali Hami al-Din told AFP, confirming that Benkarine was expected on Saturday in Tangiers.
"It is a humiliation for our party and we must not stand by with our arms folded," PJD delegate Abdelaziz Aftati said.
King Mohammed VI named Benkarine prime minister in January after the Islamist party's historic November 2011 victory in legislative elections.
A new constitution which reinforced the prime minister's power was adopted in July 2011, whilst preserving the king's political and religious supremacy.
Activists protested in late August against Morocco's annual ritual of loyalty to the king, seen by critics as outdated and degrading.
Senior members of the PJD also believe it is time to do away with such traditions, arguing that it is out of step with the 21st century.
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It is a humiliation for our party and we must not stand by with our arms folded
Damn, another one? We're gonna need a lot more pop-corn.
[An Nahar] President Jose Eduardo dos Santos was poised to extend his 33-year rule, as his party took a hefty lead on Saturday in this week's vote, despite frustrations among the poor at being left out of Angola's oil boom.
With more than half the ballots counted, his People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) took 74 percent of the vote from Friday's general elections.
The main opposition Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita) was a distant second with nearly 18 percent, and the new Casa party in third with 4.5 percent, the National Electoral Commission said.
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"It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes".
Joseph Stalin
[An Nahar] It seems that Russia's defense ministry has little faith in Google's operating systems: it has just unveiled its own encrypted version that has the remarkably familiar feel of an Android.
Russia's very first smart prototype was presented on the sidelines of a Berlin electronics show this week to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin -- an avowed nationalist who oversees the military's technological innovation.
A slimmed down version of the operating system in computer tablet form is actually meant to go public by the end of the year at a cost of 15,000 rubles ($460) a pop.
But it would hardly be a defense gadget with consumer appeal. Developers at the ministry's Central Scientific Research Institute said their main client is -- and will probably always be -- the state and its top brass.
"The military version will be shock- and water-proof," Russian media quoted production unit director Andrei Starikovsky as telling Rogozin at the presentation.
"The operating system has all the functional capabilities of an Android operating system but none of its hidden features that send users' private data to Google headquarters," the researcher stressed.
Russia's top officials have been unnerved by the idea that data collected and stored for years in Google databases could slip into the hands of the U.S. government and expose some of their most secret and sensitive communications.
Similar fears have already driven other expensive military projects with rewards for the masses that come primarily as an afterthought.
One such invention is GLONASS -- a rival of the Global Position System (GPS) meant to help generals train their missiles on targets without relying on a U.S. system that could be shut down as a precaution at any point.
GLONASS suffered through initial delays and some satellite crashes but was eventually included in the software of Apple's latest iPhone.
But the latest defense project is not entirely an echo of the Cold War.
It is run out of a military research facility but privately funded.
And its developers say that the operating system has been in the works for five whole years for the simple reason that Russians -- mostly those who run ministries and firms such as the state energy behemoth Gazprom -- have little trust in Google's security.
"They are not afraid of Google or the U.S. government stealing things per se. They are afraid of leaks in general," the operating system's project manager Dmitry Mikhailov told Agence France Presse.
"There is nothing like this operating system on the market. It is hack-proof," Mikhailov claimed. "There are people who are clamoring for this."
Analysts question whether Russia has enough super-wealthy clients that treasure their records so much they are willing to pay premium prices for services that in some cases are available elsewhere for free.
"The devil is in the details. If this is purely a defense ministry project, it is doomed," said Russian parliament member and professional IT specialist Ilya Ponomaryov.
"But if this is a completely new operating system made by and for the market, its prospects are as good as anyone else's," Ponomaryov told AFP.
Dmitry Konovalov of the Institute of Strategic Assessment said simply that he thought the tablet "only makes military sense. It makes no commercial sense at all."
But project manager Mikhailov said his company had plenty of pre-orders ahead of the system's release date that promised profits down the line.
"It can go on smartphones as well," he added.
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Heck, I wouldn't mind a secure tablet myself. Does it come with an English version?
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Gromky: I understand there's a project somewhere out there to put various distributions of linux on tablets with less on top of it than android puts; among them there's a kde-based project called 'vivaldi' but I don't know its current status.
[Dawn]Clerics in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... and adjoining tribal areas have refused to continue supporting the immunisation campaigns sponsored by United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Children's Fund in their respective areas, saying a Unicef official have discredited them.
Prayer leaders and teachers in seminaries have been helping NGO National Research and Development Foundation and Unicef reduce the numbers of the people refusing to get their children vaccinated against polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... since November 2009.
On Thursday, NRDF wrote a letter to Unicef expressing displeasure over one of its officials bringing Learned Elders of Islam into disrepute by claiming they're paid for immunisation support and cooperation, though they work on voluntary basis.
It also complained of lack of cooperation and stoppage of funds by Unicef from April 2012 despite the fact that the 'Programme Cooperation Agreement' between the two was valid until December 31, 2012.
The letter issued by NRDF chief coordinator Tahseenullah Khan also cited some other problems created by Unicef, saying it was not possible to continue working with the Fund under current circumstances.
"We want to formally quit its organizational activities related to Polio Eradication and expanded programme on immunisation (EPI) under the current Project Cooperation Agreement (PCA) with Unicef until remedial organizational measures are taken to rebuild the lost confidence of our field workers and resume meaningful activities," it said.
"We further communicate that in this situation the organizational support of NRDF for vaccination activities under the current project to the Unicef PCA will be available to 30th September 2012," it said. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... it will be subject to provision of funds by Unicef for the clearance of pending unpaid huge expenditure incurred by NRDF as well as to bear the project related expenses during the notice period, it said.
Many religious scholars, who have been working with NRDF, told Dawn that Unicef had been discrediting them.
"We have been working with Unicef on voluntary basis and had brought down refusals to 840 from 26000 in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. during the past one year," said Maulana Jehanzeb.
He said a senior Peshawar-based UNICEF official gave a presentation to district coordination officer in April in which he said the Unicef was paying money to religious leaders for anti-immunisation support and cooperation.
"It is a mark of utmost disrespect for Learned Elders of Islam," he said.
"Wherever the Unicef official goes, he tells the people that they have hired the services of Learned Elders of Islam", said another scholar Maulana Rasool Jan, who said they had brought down the number of polio refusal cases from 6,000 to zero in FR Peshawar.
"Unicef should respect us for our role in improving immunisation but it is doing exactly the opposite," he said, adding that majority of 7,000 Learned Elders of Islam had communicated to NRDF that they were not willing to support immunisation, especially polio,
which prompted NRDF to quit the project.
Tahseenullah Khan told Dawn that a senior Unicef official was bringing Learned Elders of Islam working purely on voluntary basis into disrepute.
"I was under tremendous pressure to dissociate my organization from Unicef. I have written a letter to end the project because
we cannot tolerate the disrespect of Learned Elders of Islam at the hands of Unicef," he said.
He said NRDF with the financial support of the Unicef had been supporting the mobilisation campaign about vaccination in two districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and as many agencies of Fata since November 2009. He said given the success of the intervention, the project was enhanced to seven more KP districts after six months. After passage of another six month, Unicef extended the programme and the NRDF was tasked to work in 31 districts and agencies in Nov 2010.
"We had Rs110 million for 15 month project ending December 2012. We had one coordinator to whom we paid Rs 25000 as salary and a similar amount as fuel charges", he said. In each district, we spent Rs4,000 on Learned Elders of Islam for organising their trips to the refusal families and tea and meals etc, he said.
"The Unicef's allegation that Learned Elders of Islam are being paid for vaccination support is misguiding. We would not resume work until stoppage of the disrespect of Learned Elders of Islam and apology from the relevant official," he said. Maulana Farooq in North Wazoo said Learned Elders of Islam wouldn't support the anti-vaccination propaganda even after quitting the project, but wanted Unicef to prevent its official from issuing statements against religious leaders.
"Polio campaign will suffer because Learned Elders of Islam's dissociation would create doubts in the minds of the people," he said.
When contacted, Unicef communication specialist (polio), Pakistain Michael Coleman said the Fund continued to have a 'Programme Cooperation Agreement' with NRDF for polio eradication. He said polio eradication was a top priority of the government of Pakistain and its partners, including Unicef.
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(CNSNews.com) The U.S. Justice Department says it has reached a settlement with the Sacramento (California) Public Library over a trial program the library was conducting that let patrons borrow Barnes and Noble NOOK e-book readers.
DOJ and the National Federation of the Blind objected to the program on grounds that blind people could not use the NOOK e-readers for technological reasons.
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This is what happens when the courts get to play with terms like 'reasonable accommodation'. The radical advocates keep pushing the line further and further to demand the rest of society to conform to their views. It's all about power.
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No one has mentioned DOJ's next step: objecting to libraries lending printed books on grounds that blind people could not use regular printed material for obvious reasons.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi said his forces have adopted the necessary measures to confront enemies'' spying operations against Iran''s military communication tools and systems.
Addressing a group of the IRGC Navy personnel in Iran''s Southern port city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday, Fadavi said the communication systems which have been developed by the aliens are means of control against other nations since they have been designed to be vulnerable to their makers'' hacking efforts.
This means that communication systems and devices should all be indigenized to have better security, he added.
"Creation of a safe and secure contact system is on our agenda, and we have taken great and good steps to that end," the commander said.
Western military analysts say they are stunned by Iranian experts'' high capability of cyber defense and cyber attacks.
In July, Iran''s Minister of Communication and Information Technology Reza Taqipour announced that Iran has successfully confronted sophisticated spy malwares and thwarted all cyber attacks against the country''s infrastructures.
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Fadavisaid the communication systems which have been developed by the aliens are means of control against other nations since they have been designed to be vulnerable to their makers'' hacking efforts.
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Right now some Mossad guy is trying to clean coffee from his keyboard.
(CNN) -- Brazilian public notary Claudia do Nascimento Domingues set off a firestorm by granting Brazil's first civil union to a trio, an act so unprecedented that there isn't a word for it in Portuguese.
Uniao poliafetiva is the label she created. "Polyfidelitous union" is her best guess in English.
The relationship involves three professionals in their 30s -- one man and two women -- who, she says, live together, love one another as equals and are like any other non-married cohabiting couple -- except they are three.
What Domingues did was legally register the trio as a "stable union," a civil union that extends all of the benefits of marriage, though there is debate about what rights the threesome will actually enjoy. It short, it recognizes the trio as a family entity for public legal purposes.
Domingues has not released the identities of the three.
But not all are embracing the unique alliance.
"This union is void of any legality," said Regina Beatriz Tavares da Silva, head of the family law committee of a lawyers' association in Sao Paulo.
Brazilian law defines marriage as a union between two people, so it is impossible for a civil union of three to be granted the rights of a marriage of two.
"It goes directly against the constitution," da Silva said. "Monogamy is defined as relations between two, not three or four or five."
The first-of-its-kind civil union has led to an outcry from religious groups, too. Those who fear the "slipperly slope" feel the ground moving underneath their feet.
"The institution of family cannot be defended with the approval of actions that seek to distort its definition," the religious, conservative Plinio Correa de Oliveira Institute said in a statement. "The purpose of this (union) is not to build families, but to destroy them."
The controversial civil union "is proof that there is a plurality of familiar relations, though not all deserve judicial or legal standing," Rolf Madaleno, director of the Brazilian Institute for Family Law, said in a statement. "The action carried out does not provide protections and does not confer rights."
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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 39-year-old man was shot three times inside his car early Sunday morning on the Southeast Side and died in his front seat, according to police.
President Jose Eduardo dos Santos was poised to extend his 33-year rule, as his party took a hefty lead on Saturday in this week's vote, despite frustrations among the poor at being left out of Angola's oil boom.
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi said his forces have adopted the necessary measures to confront enemies'' spying operations against Iran''s military communication tools and systems.
(CNN) -- Brazilian public notary Claudia do Nascimento Domingues set off a firestorm by granting Brazil's first civil union to a trio, an act so unprecedented that there isn't a word for it in Portuguese.
