[FOXNEWS] Two bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... teenagers were enjugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! Saturday in an attack on a suburban man who was brutally beaten by a mob after accidentally striking a boy with his pickup truck.
Investigators believe the 17-year-old and 16-year-old males had a direct role in the beating of Steve Utash, said Sgt. Mike Woody, a Detroit police front man.
Utash remained at death's door Saturday, three days after the attack on the city's east side.
Woody said no charges would be immediately filed against the teens while Sherlocks continue their work. Police believe at least six people may have been involved.
"We still have a long way to go. I've been reminding people we're still at the very beginning stage of this investigation," the sergeant said.
The case has outraged the public, clergy and elected officials. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan called the attack "senseless."
Utash, 54, of Clinton Township accidentally struck a 10-year-old boy with his pickup Wednesday. A mob swarmed him as he checked the boy, whose injuries were not life-threatening.
A prominent black pastor, the Rev. Horace Sheffield III, called on the public to go block by block to find the "heartless perpetrators."
It's important for community members "to prove that we equally deplore justice and unbridled brutality no matter what color the victim is or of the one committing it," Sheffield said in a statement.
Utash is white; Detroit is more than 80 percent black.
Utash's family said more than $50,000 has been raised for his medical bills. The tree trimmer has no medical insurance.
"I never expected this. ... The whole nation is rooting for him to wake up and be OK," his daughter, Mandi Emerick, told The Detroit News.
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We long ago lost control of these urban, criminal incubators. We are now losing control of the entire nation. Where there is no 'Rule of Law' there is no civilization. God help us.
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When government is unable or unwilling to provide security in one's person, one's family or one's property, power reverts to the people. When this happens the government denounces it as vigilantism, not because it is directed at those who pose the threat to the community but rather demonstrate the weakness and illegitimacy of those claiming the power of government.
A battle where American sailors fought to live
and Japanese pilots fought to die.
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My father in law was exec officer on the ship on the early 60's. It's now at Patriots Point in Charleston SC. The wife and I went to a couple of the ship reunions with him and I've met some of the crew that were in that fight. AP is right on from the stories I heard.
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Made me think of a similar story about the SS Ohio towed into Malta's harbor so badly damaged that when they pumped off the oil in her holds, she sank. An excellent book - Moses, Sam (2006). At All Costs: How a Crippled Ship and Two American Merchant Marines Turned the Tide of World War II.
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Them Exocets don't look so scary once you've seen a Kate driven by 130 IQ points carry a 1000 lb AP warhead + Gasoline + Kinetic Energy.
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I recommend The Twilight Warriors, Robert Gandt. Focuses on the airmen on both sides, but includes all events around Okinawa, such as the charge of the Yamato.
I was wondering that too Bobby; I read Malta Convoy, a good read for a air/road trip. Ridiculous.
[Ennahar] Incidents that occurred Saturday in Bejaia where Abdelmalik Sellal was leading a campaign rally on behalf of the candidate-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term, who will probably die in office of old age... were denounced Sunday by the candidates and their representatives on the 15th day of the campaign for the presidential election of April 17.
From M'sila, Abdelaziz Belkhadem, who hosted a meeting for the candidate Bouteflika said that democracy "does not mean to oppose the candidacy of one that satisfies all the conditions required by law, or to prevent a candidate to lead his election campaign", in reference to these incidents.
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[RIA/Novosti] Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... said Monday the country will not allow the activities of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to be used toward destructive ends as has recently happened in Ukraine.
"Modern Russian legislation creates all of the conditions for the transparent and free activity of non-governmental social organizations, but we will never allow them to be used for destructive goals," Putin said at a meeting with the country's Federal Security Service ... the successor to the KGB... (FSB).
Putin said NGOs in Ukraine had sponsored nationalistic and neo-Nazi organizations, as well as the gunnies who became "the main striking force of the government's unconstitutional overthrow" in February.
Russia has consistently warned that the new government in Ukraine has a dangerous fascist element of Ukrainian ultra-nationalism, leading Moscow to take steps to protect ethnic Russians in Ukraine.
Under a November 2012 law, which Moscow said was needed to limit the influence of foreign governments inside the country, NGOs that receive funding from abroad and whose activities are in any way political are obliged to register as foreign agents in Russia.
Putin said the law is equivalent to the US Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), passed in 1938, that requires that agents representing the interests of foreign powers disclose their relationship with the foreign government and reveal their related activities and finances.
Commenting on the law, Putin said last April that Russia has no bans on political activity for organizations that receive funds from abroad, but just wants to know the origin and final destination of the money.
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NGOs that receive funding from abroad and whose activities are in any way political are obliged to register as foreign agents in Russia.
[RIA/Novosti] Ukraine must adhere to its international obligations on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and prevent the sale of ballistic missile technologies to third countries, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday.
It's different when Russia does it...
The ministry cited a number of media reports alleging that the Yuzhmash company, based in the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk, is holding talks with foreign clients on the sales of technologies involved in production of RS-20 Voyevoda ballistic missiles.
"Ukraine, being a member of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) partnership and a signatory to the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCoC), bears serious political obligations," the ministry said in a statement.
The ministry urged the new Kiev authorities to be extremely cautious in its decisions to trade technologies related to ballistic missiles with payloads exceeding 500 kilograms and firing ranges of over 300 kilometers (over 180 miles).
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[RIA/Novosti] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... should stop its belligerent rhetoric over the crisis in Ukraine and return to normal cooperation with Russia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an article published on Monday.
Below is the full text of the article, obtained from The Guardian:
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In the meantime Western states, despite their repeated assurances to the contrary, have carried out successive waves of NATO enlargement,
All the while, keeping the expansion a closely-guarded secret from all the peoples of all the Western states. So secret, not even Champ knew about it! Or is that where all the Homeland Security ammo is going?
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ION Sergei Lavrov ...
RUSSIA TODAY > RUSSIAN FM [you know who] CALLS ON KIEV, WASHINGTON TO RECOGNIZE INTERESTS OF ALL UKRAINE REGIONS.
FM Sergei wants the no-Crimea breakaway Ukraine regions to be de facto represented at talks.
VERSUS
* JAPAN TIMES > [Yulia Tymoshenko] OPINION: ANNEXATION BY OTHER MEANS.
"ANNEXATION PUTINIST FEDERALISM FOR UKRAINE IS", as Jedi Master yoda MIGHT SAY.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > GERMANY MUST USE ITS MILITARY MORE, SAYS PRESIDENT [Joachim Gauck].
Use the BundesWehr AMAP frequently + decisively, but also legally + morally.
IMO Artic also read, SSSSHHHHH ...CCCCCCC GERMANY NEEDS NUKES.
As I've said times before, THE WORLD = INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY EITHER TRUSTS POST-WW2, COLD WAR GERMANY + JAPAN, OR IT DOES NOT.
[RIA/Novosti] Donetsk region People's Council established by local pro-federalization demonstrators on Monday declared its plans to create the republic of Donetsk and join Russia if people so vote during the referendum which is due to take place no later than May 11, RIA Novosti correspondent reported Monday.
"People's Republic of Donetsk is to be created within the administrative borders of Donetsk region. This decision shall enter into force immediately after the referendum," one of the leaders of Donetsk People's council said at a meeting in the building of regional administration Monday.
A group of protesters pushing for broader regional autonomy stormed government buildings in Donetsk, Lugansk and Kharkov in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, according to local media reports.
Nearly 3,000 people reportedly took control of the national bank's building in Lugansk. Demonstrators flooded the streets in the city, waving Russian flags and chanting "Russia! Russia!"
Calls for secession and federalization have been spreading across Ukraine's mainly Russian-speaking eastern regions after Ukrainian ultranationalists, who make up the bulk of the erstwhile opposition, rose to political prominence following a change of the country's leadership that resembled a coup in February.
Protesters in eastern Ukraine, who have refused to recognize the legitimacy of the new authorities, have been gathering since March, demanding referendums on the status of their regions.
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What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander?
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And I'll bet that, unlike recent EU referendums, these people already know how they're supposed to vote.
(People's Republic of Donetsk...back to the future.)
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It's all fun and games until Khabarovsk Krai votes to join China.
Pro-Moscow demonstrators in eastern Ukraine seized arms in one city and declared a separatist republic in another, which Kiev called part of a Russian-orchestrated plan to justify an invasion of the country.
Kiev said the overnight seizure of public buildings in three cities in eastern Ukraine were a replay of events in Crimea. Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said, "An anti-Ukrainian plan is being put into operation ... under which foreign troops will cross the border and seize the territory of the country. We will not allow this."
Pro-Moscow protesters seized official buildings in Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk on Sunday night, demanding that referendums be held on whether to join Russia like the one that preceded Russia's Crimea takeover.
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Can't wait for the Russians to start on Estonia.
Just think...a NATO member and an European Union member. Not sure I have enough popcorn.
Just feel sorry for the Estonians. They are nice people and are so proud have having given the Russians the boot.
Re the Ukraine: glad by paternal grandparents left.
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AFAIK despite MSM-Net inferences there's still nothing official from the "People's Republic of Lugansk/Luhansk" + "Moldova", but I guess its safe to say their declarations are forthcoming.
* IIRC VOICE OF RUSSIA - PACE REFUSES TO SEE THAT UKRAINE IS ON VERGE/AT RISK OF TOTAL NATIONAL SPLIT - LAWMAKER [Alexei Pushkov].
Vlad thus far is doing all the right things in Russia's strategic interests, both agz NATO-EU as well as agz the Soon-to-be-Nuclear Hard Boyz + Islamic Nations - despite international criticisms, Vlad is giving the US + NATO-EU an opportunity to cooperate + "share" an independent sovereign Ukraine.
As various MSM-Net Artics have denoted, VLAD = RUSSIA'S FEAR IS THE SOON-TO-BE-NUCLEAR HARD BOYZ + ISLAMIC NATIONS - AMONG OTHER REASONS, HE WANTS DE FACTO RUSSIAN CONTROL OF THE BLACK SEA AS HEDGE
AGZ NUCLEAR UNCERTAINTY VEE NUCLEAR ISLAM INCLUD INUCLEAR ISLAMIST/ISLAMIC RADICALISM.
THE REAL CRUX IS WHAT WILL OBAMA-THE-PRO-US-NATIONALIST-VS-OBAMA-THE-ANTI-US-GLOBALIST, + SECSTATE JAAWHN, ETAL. DO IN RESPONSE TO THE LATEST TROUBLES OR ESCALATIONS IN UKRAINE'S SOUTHEAST.
In the closing days of the open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) , the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was mailing out letters notifying certain Americans that they had already started a healthcare coverage application on their behalf. Nothing like Government help.
The HHS letter stated that the information they used to begin the application for individual Healthcare was obtain by the state agency in charge of implementing Obamacare. You will be enrolled in Obamacare whether you want to or not. You have no choice.
The next step for the individual would be visit Healthcare.gov and complete the already started application to see if they qualify for "Marketplace coverage." And get their pre- marked "Democrat" registration card. See how easy it is? You don't have to do anything.
News of the HHS letter was first mentioned by a listener of the popular "Daybreak with Drew Steele" Show on Fox 92.5, which is out of Fort Myers, Florida. I wonder how many of the "7 million" signed up includes all these.
No I don't.
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..and you've ready been registered as a Democrat. Funding solicitations to follow.
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I'm surprised they don't consider all military retirees and those on Social Security as having already been enrolled, since they rolled everything into one big dung ball.
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Also, your election ballots have been pre-marked for your personal voting convenience!
No muss, no fuss!
We got the idea from California, so you know it's great!
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Bouteflika
...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[RIA/Novosti] Ukraine must adhere to its international obligations on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and prevent the sale of ballistic missile technologies to third countries, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday.
