[KHOU] HARRIS COUNTY, Texas -- Harris County Sherlocks said Deputy Jimmy Drummond was caught on dash cam video brutalizing a family.
Drummond followed the son home because he said he was speeding. As other family members approached the scene, they were all beaten. The son's ribs were broken and his father's face was bruised. The mother was dragged.
Deputy Drummond was charged with official oppression and is due in court on Friday.
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[An Nahar] Nigeria's second-highest ranking Anglican archbishop was kidnapped at the weekend outside the southern oil city of Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State, a police spokeswoman said on Monday.
"Archbishop Ignatius Kattey was kidnapped along with his wife around Eleme (outside Port Harcourt) at about 10:45 pm (2145 GMT) on Friday," spokeswoman Angela Agabe told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"His wife was later abandoned in the bush by their abductors."
A national front man of the Anglican Communion in Nigeria, Foluso Taiwo, confirmed the abduction to AFP, but said the circumstances surrounding the incident were sketchy.
Kattey is the dean of archbishops of the Anglican communion in Nigeria, ranking him second to the primate of the Anglican Church in the country, said Taiwo.
The holy man is archbishop of the Niger Delta province, he added.
Kidnapping for ransom occurs regularly in the southern oil-producing Niger Delta region, though authorities rarely admit to making payments.
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[An Nahar] A court in the Republic of Congo ...which is not the same as the Democratic Republic of Congo...
has jailed six soldiers and acquitted 26 others held responsible for explosions at an ammunition dump that killed nearly 300 people last year. Something happened in Brazzaville Congo? Who knew?
The Brazzaville criminal court late Monday sentenced the chief defendant, Corporal Kakom Kouack Blood, to 15 years' hard labor on conviction of willfully setting fire to the ammunition depot of an armored division in the capital.
On March 4, 2012, the explosions in the Mpila residential district killed 300 people, wounded more than 2,300 and left 17,000 homeless, according to an official toll. Some of those who lost their homes are still living in difficult conditions.
The former deputy secretary general to the national security council, Colonel Marcel Tsourou, was sentenced to five years' hard labor for complicity in involuntary arson and for illegally possessing weapons of war.
Colonel Germain Ikonga Akindou, former chief quartermaster of the Congolese Armed Forces (FAC), was sentenced to five years in jail and fined 120 million CFA francs (183,000 euros / $242,000).
Three non-commissioned officers were each jailed for two years and fined 200,000 FCFA (300 euros).
The charges against all 32 defendants included arson, breach of state security and illegal possession of weapons of war.
Chief judge Mathurin Bayi acquitted 26 other defendants, including 19 soldiers and police officers.
At the start of the trial, 30 defendants were in the dock, but charges were later laid against two more soldiers who appeared as witnesses and were then accused on the basis of their evidence. Both men were among those finally acquitted.
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It seems more people ARE in Hospitals, That's what a "Cradle to grave" Service does.
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However, in Chicago (Detroit, Da Capital, New Orleans, etc) if you're young and of a special interest group, it's unlikely you'll reach the hospital in time to add to the count. Thus the lower life expectancy modifier in America.
[An Nahar] An Indian court convicted four men Tuesday in the fatal gang rape of a young woman on a moving New Delhi bus, a case that set off waves of protests and gave voice to years of anger over the treatment of women.
The men, convicted on all the counts against them, including rape and murder, now face the possibility of hanging. The sentences are expected to be handed down Wednesday.
Reading out his verdict, Judge Yogesh Khanna said the men had committed "murder of a helpless person."
The parents of the rape victim, who cannot be identified under Indian law, had tears in their eyes as the verdicts were read. They sat just a few feet from the convicted men in a tiny courtroom jammed with lawyers, police and news hounds.
Outside the courthouse, where dozens of protesters had gathered, a chant began quickly after the verdict: "Hang Them! Hang Them! Hang Them!"
Protesters called the case a wake-up call for India.
"Every girl at any age experiences this -- harassment or rape. We don't feel safe," said law school graduate Rapia Pathania. "That's why we're here. We want this case to be an example for every other case that has been filed and will be filed."
At least three of the four men convicted Tuesday will appeal the guilty verdicts, lawyers said Tuesday.
V.K. Anand, defense lawyer for Mukesh Singh, told news hounds outside the courtroom: "My client was simply driving the bus. He confessed fairly that he was driving the bus but he did not know what went on inside."
A.P. Singh, defense lawyer for Akshay Thakur and Vinay Sharma, called the convictions "political" and said he would appeal on behalf of both of them.
"We will now go to the High Court with our appeal," he told news hounds. "This is a political conviction."
The lawyer for the fourth convict, Pawan Gupta, could not be immediately reached for comment.
The four men, along with another suspect who hanged himself in prison and a juvenile convicted in August, were riding through the city on an off-duty bus in December when they tricked the 23-year-old woman and a male friend into boarding.
They beat the friend into submission, held down the woman and repeatedly raped her. They also penetrated the woman repeatedly with an iron rod, causing severe internal injuries that led to her death two weeks later.
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[An Nahar] A Jordanian MP was tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... after firing a Kalashnikov assault rifle in parliament at a colleague on Tuesday, without causing injuries, judicial and parliamentary sources said.
"The prosecutor general of Amman on Tuesday ordered the detention for 15 days of Talal al-Sharif after he opened fire on MP Qusay al-Damissi in the Chamber of Deputies building," said the judicial source.
"He faces charges including attempted murder, possession of unlicensed firearms and resisting the security forces," she added.
Sharif was expelled from parliament and Damissi suspended for one year, according to Jordan's official Petra news agency.
A parliamentary source told Agence La Belle France Presse that "Mr. Sharif shot a Kalashnikov at his colleague Damissi during an altercation in the offices of the Chamber of Deputies, without hurting him."
The source said the shooting came after an argument broke out in parliament on Sunday between Damissi and another member, Yahia al-Saud.
Video footage emerged showing Damissi removing his shoes and Saud his belt during the dispute, which flared due to differences over parliamentary procedure, before they were separated.
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...He brings a knife, you bring an AK.
It's the Amman way.
Mike
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Let's give all our elected officials M4s, and require that they carry them when on legislative duty. Our problems will soon be over...
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It's too bad nobody can seem to come up with a "Detroit of Michigan."
[MAIN.OMANOBSERVER.OM] AT a high-tech factory in the world's fastest growing auto production hub, industrial robots and white-suited workers put the finishing touches to hundreds of cars rolling off the assembly line each day. It could be a scene from Toyota City or Detroit, but this is Thailand, a country better known around the world for its beaches and rice paddies. With major car makers hit by a global economic downturn, the Southeast Asian nation has emerged as a rare bright spot in recent years. Thailand's auto production surged 70 per cent in 2012 from the previous year, to 2.48 million vehicles, according to the Paris-based International Organisation of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers. In contrast, China and India saw only single digit gains.
Thanks to major investment by Japanese producers as well as US giant Ford, Thailand is Southeast Asia's most prolific car maker, streets ahead of nearest-rival Indonesia. Last year it exported about one million vehicles. Domestic sales also continued to surge in the first six months of 2013, although they have since slowed as the number of first time buyers lured into the market by tax breaks tails off. It is a general growth trend mirrored across much of the region as people switch to cars from motorcycles. Despite worries about Thailand's wider economic fortunes, car makers remain bullish about the kingdom's long-term prospects and have pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into high-tech new plants to prove it. "There might be black clouds and there might be problems, but overall the car industry is driven by people... people with two wheels who want to get four wheels," says Uli Kaiser, president of industry analysts the Automotive Focus Group Thailand.
"I don't see that desire to stop, and I see Southeast Asia as the strongest growth territory in the world."
As the battle for market share intensifies, big car makers -- many from Japan -- are ploughing cash into new plants determined to sell more vehicles to Thailand's burgeoning consumer classes and take advantage of its location in the heart of Southeast Asia's export markets.
At a Honda factory on the outskirts of Bangkok, it takes three days to fully assemble a new car. Over 1,100 drive off the production line every day. The Japanese maker is aiming to churn out 420,000 vehicles a year in Thailand by 2015, when a new $644 million car plant is expected to open outside Bangkok.
It is a far cry from 2011 when floods swamped much of the country and shuttered the industry for weeks, raising fears automaking behemoths could shift their operations.
"We were severely affected... if we were a small company we would have gone bankrupt," Pitak Pruittisarikorn, executive vice president of Honda Automobile Thailand, said.
"But from the company that was affected most, we came back to be the company that has the highest growth. Now Thailand is the biggest Honda production base in the region (Asia) and will be in three or five years from now."
Last month rival Toyota started production at a sprawling $340 million assembly plant, its fifth in a country where it sold more than half a million vehicles last year.
The company says it will eventually make 770,000 vehicles -- from passenger cars to vans -- on Thai soil each year. The group, which employs 13,500 people in Thailand and whose pickup trucks are ever-present on its motorways, is determined to stay in pole position.
"We have to keep our market share... we can keep between 35 and 40 per cent," said Kyoichi Tanada, president of Toyota Motor Thailand, outlining his belief that Thai consumers will continue to buy around 1.2 million vehicle each year. Nissan meanwhile has pledged to open a second factory costing $360 million next year, which will eventually produce 150,000 vehicles annually. Thailand's car boom has been in part steered by the nation's government which gave the sector a shot-in-the-arm after the floods with its "first car" policy, garnering around 1.25 million orders for new cars qualifying for a tax rebate of up to $2,500.
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"It's too bad nobody can seem to come up with a "Detroit of Michigan."
Simple, make it a right to work state and dump the Union influence as it presently stands.
Put Freedom to Work First and Leftist Socialist Union demands last...a new market for American labor will grow.
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Here is the crisis:
Amid membership 'crisis,' AFL-CIO opens doors to non-workers...
[Ynet] Syria has signed "major contracts" with Iran that would cover its needs for food, medical and other supplies, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said on Tuesday.
A protracted civil war has left Syria divided and displaced millions of people. The country has struggled to buy food in recent weeks, issuing tenders to buy sugar, flour, rice and wheat, citing extreme urgency yet failing to make any purchases.
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Pistachios, rugs and Afghani heroin...
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Considering the IRGC owns a significant portion of Iran's economic sector (the mullahs own nearly all the rest,) I suspect the ties will end up being more than just economic.
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Iff the Bammer + Michelle like a son(s), post-Jan 2017 + espec as their girls get older, they can always adopt from Africa [Asia? Other?]] like Bradgelina, Madonna, etal. Hollywood Celebs.
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You know what this is really aimed at. They will declare everyone on welfare a union member. Then, six months later, they'll push for union dues to be take out of the welfare checks, with membership being mandatory if you're on welfare.
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Just a way those running the union think can keep the show on the road a bit longer and save their phony baloney jobs from the wrath of their paying members.
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Turf war: AARP is the official union of people who don't work anymore...
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Marketing to the Path of Progress: Labor, with union membership declining, will woo non-workers
Translation - Ain't no respect for seniority these days for special interests. We're getting thrown under the bus with the blacks by the DNC, we need to raise more money for the Party to protect our high paying phoonie-baloney non-jobs in union management.
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.
[An Nahar] Nigeria's second-highest ranking Anglican archbishop was kidnapped at the weekend outside the southern oil city of Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State, a police spokeswoman said on Monday.
[An Nahar] An Indian court convicted four men Tuesday in the fatal gang rape of a young woman on a moving New Delhi bus, a case that set off waves of protests and gave voice to years of anger over the treatment of women.
