[Dhaka Tribune] A Dhaka court yesterday sent the loathesome Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... s Adviser Md Shamsuzzaman Dudu and two others to jail in a case filed for instigating destructive activities during the BNP-led alliances ongoing indefinite blockade.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Rezaul Karim passed the order after Sub-Inspector Md Muniruzzaman of Mirpur Model cop shoppe, also the investigation officer of the case, produced Dudu before the court after completion of a five-day remand. The two other accused are Mirpur thana Jubo Dal Secretary of ward number 14, Md Rafiqul Islam Liton, and Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... activist Md Dider.
On January 12, a Dhaka court placed Dudu on a five-day remand when the police produced him seeking a seven-day remand for interrogation in the case.
On January 11, Police picked up Dudu, also secretary of Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal from Mirpur 2 in the capital.
Mirpur police filed a case against Dudu and 39 other leaders and activists of the BNP-led 20-party alliance under the special power act for their alleged involvement in violence.
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An 18-year-old man died after unidentified attackers hurled fire bombs at the vehicle in which he was travelling early on Sunday in Southern Barisal, lifting to 27 the death toll from violence in Bangladesh's deepening political crisis since last year's disputed elections.
Bangladesh's government ruled out military deployment to establish order after the latest violence surrounding a standoff between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Begum Khaleda Zia, leader of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
The violence has worsened steadily since Jan. 5, when protests erupted over last year's election, which was boycotted by the BNP. The renewed tension between the political rivals raises the spectre of a long, destabilising spell of unrest for Bangladesh and its economy.
"There is no such situation in the country requiring the deployment of the army-led joint forces," Asaduzzaman Khan, the junior minister for home affairs, told reporters on Sunday.
At least 30 people, including five police officers, have been injured in attacks on vehicles in Dhaka since Saturday night.
"The culprits won't be spared," Prime Minister Hasina said on Sunday while visiting a hospital to see policemen who had sustained severe burns.
Authorities have blocked popular internet calling and messaging service Viber on security concerns, Jakir Hossain, spokesman for the Bangladesh telecoms authority said.
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Despite claims to the contrary emanating from Ukrainian military sources, Donbas rebels say they have taken the airport, according to published Russian language news reports and videos.
Three days ago news reports and videos from rebel news sources said that the rebels controlled all but two floors of the new terminal, and that they had eliminated a key position at the airport -- the airport control tower -- the Ukrainian military had been using to spot artillery fire into Donetsk city.
On Sunday, news accounts from Kiev -- parroted by several western news agencies -- said that Ukrainian forces in the region were rushing infantry and tanks to the airport, and had retaken the new terminal.
But videos posted featuring top commanders known only by their call signs "Givi" and "Motorla", claimed that several Ukrainian counterattacks had been stopped, although Ukrainian military commanders were apparently continuing to send counterattacks into the airport. One of the videos showed Donetsk president Aleksandr Zakharshenko being escorted to the new terminal atop a BTR-70 armored personnel carrier, along with other troops.
According to an videoed interview of "Givi", another key position, Peski had been taken after a months long campaign and that Ukrainian troops were reinforcing, sending troops gathered at Avdievka, another position the Ukrainians used to support defensive operations at the new terminal.
However, reports from the pro rebel Voice of Sevastopol say that both Peski and Avdievka are still in the hands of the Ukrainian military. Those reports also say Ukrainian regular army troops were given the order to retreat, but volunteer units continued to stay and fight.
The Ukrainians also had used Peski to site artillery, but now artillery being used against rebel forces defending at the airport was coming from Opytnoye to the northeast. Much of the fighting now is located at the Putilov bridge, where rebel forces are attempting to prevent repeated Ukrainian army breakthroughs.
Fighting in Lugansk
Most of the fighting involved artillery fire exchanges between the two forces, centering around Schastye and highway 1303 and nearby villages.
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The latest news from the rebel side say that fighting continues intensively and without apparent letup. One video I saw showed rebel troops inside the terminal showing off AR-16 trophies they presumably seized when they took the new terminal's 2nd and 3rd floor.
At the moment it is hard to know what is really going on. For example, Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin said Sunday that Peski, another critical site held by the Ukrainian military had been abandoned, while the militias were saying it was still in Ukrainian hands, albeit under the control of a volunteer unit.
(And aside from that, from what I can tell, both sides have commanders and military personalities who are consummate bullsh*t artists.)
Rozhin said that Ukrainian counterattacks were coming with some frequency from Opytnoye near a location called Putilov bridge, near Spartak, which is on the grounds of the airport. All Ukrainian counterattacks, so far, have been stopped by the combination of rebel tanks and infantry, supported by rebel artillery.
The rebels say they have the airport, all of the airport, as says the Donetsk president, his defense minister, and at least one military journalist.
[BLOOMBERG] Ukrainian government forces said they recaptured most of Donetsks airport yesterday after intense fighting over the strategically important site thats been a focus of combat since the conflict began last year.
Our forces managed to almost completely clear the territory of the airport, Ukrainian military front man Andriy Lysenko said in Kiev, adding that retaking the wrecked facility had been a massive operation. Donetsk rebels said heavy fighting was taking place but didnt mention the airports status in a posting on their website.
Four Ukrainian servicemen were killed and 32 were maimed, Lysenko said yesterday. He said the advance of troops at the airport doesnt violate the Minsk truce deal because Ukrainian forces cleared rebels from their side of the disengagement line.
The governments capture of the airport, following a week-long effort by separatists to take it over, rekindles the prospect of all-out war in the former Soviet republic. More than 4,800 people have died in the nine-month conflict, which has poisoned Russias ties with its former Cold War foes. Russia rejects accusations by Ukraine, the U.S., the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that its meddling in the conflict by sending troops and weapons.
Russia is very concerned with the resumption of full-scale fighting in Donetsk and the shelling of residential areas, RIA Novosti reported, citing President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth 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... s front man, Dmitry Peskov.
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"The Navy refuted some of the documentation submitted by the Waterbury Veterans Memorial Committee and cited Navy regulations requiring those nominating sailors for awards to be of higher rank than the nominee."
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Re: #2 - Over fifty years after the incident, after seeing the movie Jaws, a middle-school boy in Pensacola, Florida started a school project on the sinking of the Indianapolis, that took the better part of two years to complete. He interviewed over 100 survivors and reviewed 800 documents. His project was disqualified for format issues in the State-level competition.
However, he was a part of the drive to clear McVay’s name, bringing national attention to the issue, and ultimately, testifying before Congress at 12 years of age.
In October 2000, the United States Congress passed a resolution that Captain McVay's record should reflect that "he is exonerated for the loss of the USS Indianapolis."
A little late for Captain McVey - he took his own life in 1968.
Despite this congressional resolution, and a later admission by the U.S. Navy that McVay was not responsible for the loss of the ship, the formal conviction still remains on his service record.
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[DAWN] The 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... count for the year 2015 in the country started on Saturday as the first polio case of the new year was confirmed by the virology laboratory at the National Institute of Health (NIH).
An official of the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) said that although first case of 2015 had been reported, there were some pending cases from 2014 with the laboratory and they might drive the count of polio cases further upwards.
A sample collected on Jan 3 has been confirmed and the child has been found to be suffering from polio.
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When a group decides it prefers to live in the Sixth century, then the result is not pretty.
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..not counting the anti-moderns in Western society who campaign against getting the little ones immunized. Coming to a school near you. Of course no one real holds the celebrities who promote this crap accountable.
[DAWN] PESHAWAR: The picturesque provincial capitals lone sewage treatment plant hasnt become operational since its establishment 16 years ago exposing the inefficiency of the local government and rural development department.
Now, the sprawling ponds of the plant meant for the treatment of sewage before its falling into the adjacent Bara River, a tributary of the Kabul River, are a dumping ground.
Neither the Municipal Corporation 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. , which was tasked with collecting garbage in the city until September 15, 2014, nor the newly-established Water and Sanitation Services Peshawar (WSSP), a government-owned company, are ready to take responsibility for the misuse of the precious land.
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I figured this was in Paleo-land, or maybe Detroit.
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The failed state of Pakistan flows into pollution oblivion. Wastewater treatments are not halal.
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The latest round of managed information release by Edward Snowden via Spiegel (one of a series) includes the snippet that Chinese security services copied "terabytes" of data about the aircraft. The release states that the compromised information includes radar systems data, engine schematics, heat contour maps, and designs to cool exhaust gases.
The latest leak confirms the scale of the data theft, which emerged in US media such as The Washington Times March 2014.
As that report notes, the Defense Science Board at the Pentagon stated that "cyber attacks" had compromised F-35 design information. In 2014, the leak was attributed to Lockheed Martin and was believed to have taken place in 2007
As if we need any more reason to dump this and go make something better
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Conspiracy theorists believe that allowing the Chinese to 'steal' the design docs is the final step in a deep conspiracy to sap and impurify Chinese aviation by tricking them into building the F-35.
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I love that theory SteveS, unfortunately I cannot bring myself to believe that the bozos in and around government:
A. Are smart enough to think of this;
B. disciplined enough to pull it off without leaking like a sieve;
C. Think that tricking or harming China in anyway is a good thing.
Saw this via Facebook and had to post it here. Journalist see's a man's 'bulge' and gets all excited and hystarical thinking it's a gun.
You just can't make this up...
Lynda Waddington of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa Gazette is lucky to be alive after her recent encounter with a concealed handgun carrier.
No, he didn't draw or even touch his firearm, or even say anything to her. For that matter, she didn't even see so much as a gun or a holster, so we aren't even sure they exist.
She merely saw a bulge in a random man's jacket that might be a gun, and worked herself into a hysterical fit:
There's a mantra quickly repeating in my head: "Please have a badge. Please have a badge. Please have a badge." It's a steady heartbeat as I begin a conversation with a shop clerk and reposition myself so I can peer over her shoulder.
I've already seen the bulge in his jacket, and it's clear from the size and shape that he has a holstered gun. Now my eyes are quickly scanning, hoping to find a law enforcement badge clipped to his belt.
I'm in a local bookstore and there's a sticker near the door asking patrons not to carry weapons on the premises. My two children scurried off the moment we entered, each in search of their own treasures.
The man with the weapon is as interested with the bookstore patrons as he is with the books on display. I've watched him watch others. The way he tracks them is unnerving.
There's no badge â at least not one I can see. And my inspection of him has not gone unnoticed. I rotate my handbag so that more of it rests toward the front of my body and gently pat it. It's a tell by women who are packing heat in their purse. Many do it without thinking, a subtle check of hard steel through the leather. My touch is greeted by the bristles on my hairbrush, but no one else knows that.
The man recognizes the gesture, his eyes briefly flicking to my own before he moves past us in the aisle.
I still don't know him, and the movie trailers increase. He could be the stalker, searching for his mark. He could be contemplating a robbery, or seeking someone to abduct. He could be an off-duty police officer, or even one that is undercover. He could be paranoid, thinking the world is out to get him or knowing someone truly is. He could be a fugitive, a drug dealer, a rapist or the owner of a sporting goods store.
More at the link. (Some of the comments are a hoot too!)
But wait there's more. A man who believes he's the one she's been eyeballing has come forward and says:
That was no gun under my coat, it was a Halter monitor to monitor my arrhythmia to send to my Cardiologist.
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It's a tell by women who are packing heat in their purse. Many do it without thinking, a subtle check of hard steel through the leather.
Alright. Who told the bedwetter about the double super secret gun sign language? He could be paranoid, thinking the world is out to get him or knowing someone truly is.
Ain't him that I'm worried about lady, even before I got to the punchline.
That was no gun under my coat, it was a Halter monitor to monitor my arrhythmia to send to my Cardiologist
Whellokthen, check on the weather...ok...no baseball yet....Hey Ethel! You know that crazy lady I told you about at the bookstore? Yeah, the one who kept tapping on her purse and staring through me? Looks like she is some sort of writer or something, because this story here sounds like me...she thought my counter was a gun. Yeah, in a gun free zone. That tapping, she was trying to tell me she was armed, like some damned cockatoo. Yeah I know, in a gun free zone. She thought I was some movie character; I can't believe I was that close to a legit crazy person.
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I'm not a gunsmith, but how hard would it be to update the good old 1911?
Maybe make it out of modern materials where feasible, add the capability to include laser sights, etc.
Leave the capability to stop a horse with one shot.
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There are a lot of good modern versions of the 1911. The drawbacks are it is still a heavy pistol and amount of ammo you can carry is limited as the ammo is big and heavy. It is also hard for the female soldiers to control.
Granted you only need one or two rounds to drop a target vs the 7-8 you would need for a 9mm....
I am wanting to see a midrange pistol for the military in competition.
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Think replacement parts and ammo size x infinity over multiple services.
However, if you want competition, just specify the round. Leave the 'option' open for those who wish to 'pay their own way'. If it breaks, that's their problem. Otherwise, one standard
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The issue AFAIC is not the gun but the ammo. I've seen the religious wars over .45 vs 9mm vs 10mm(aka .40) vs .357mag vs 44mag ever since I got interested in guns 10 years ago.
When you're talking about your own civilian handgun you can get as weird as you want over the details.
For the entire freakin' army decide how much punch you have to have for how much weight you can carry AND DON'T LET PC GENDER ISSUES GET IN THE WAY. Then put out an RFP for the best gun to fire that round.
Never shot it myself but the .357 Sig always seemed interesting to me but it didn't go over all that well for some reason.
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the Glock .40 S&W line would be ideal, if there weren't political barriers, and a lot of old guard types. Damned well proven guns in the field, durable, few parts, easily maintained. And the round is effective, as proven in use by law enforcement, federal service side arm, for decades. Some Ops who use it already - you can carry a lot of rounds (unlike the .45) and still pack a punch (unlike a 9mm).
I've carried a 23 since they first came out. I trust my life to it.
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Would be nice gorb, but we are talking about several hundred thousand rounds to distribute across several thousand supply points over hundreds of miles.
And with multiple types, you can have a hundred of your favorite flavor or several thousand of vanilla.
History has show the side with several thousand cones of vanilla to throw at you generally wins.
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I think the problem is that 9mm is NATO standard, like 7.62. NATO only bought of on 5.56(M-16 round) because that's what the USA was using. Back in the day for pistols the USAF carried .38, the Army .45. I think that for the USAF the .38 was a better choice for a pilots survival weapon as is was lighter. Both switched to 9mm in the late 80's, to meet NATO standards. Regardless of the weapon the ammunition needs to cross match between Allies just for logistical reasons. I would suggest everybody goes to .40 cal - but don't see it happening.
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The Army had different weapons for helicopter air crews - ejecting is a no-no so we had revolvers. In the Cav that meant Ruger Redhawks in the early 80's. With the Stetsons and tanker boots, and the big revolver in a holster, the locals near Feucht Army Airfield thought we were all cowboys.
I doubt crew carry ejecting pistols on helicopters these days either - spent casing in the turbine intake can ruin your day in a helicopter.
WBZ-TV's Ken MacLeod tracked down some protesters who shut down I-93 Thursday...
This is going to amaze you: the families of the protesters, approached by WBZ reporters, didn't want to talk with the press and wanted the reporters to leave. A few complained of 'harassment', though how being asked by a reporter to answer a few questions about their lil' darling compares to blocking traffic isn't clear to them. The leader, a young hippie with (apparently) malfunctioning deodorant, thought the protests were warranted by the "importance of their cause."
It's all fun and games playing heroic revolutionary taking down Teh Man using the media, except when YOU become the story...
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The homes of the protester's parents are nice upscale houses. The long-haired white kid who lived with his parents declined to respond to the reporters inquiry about whether he was a student, CPA or nuclear physicist?
The protesters are lucky they weren't used for speed bumps. Rush hour commuters can be irritable after a hard day's work.
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.
...Second and fourth President and sixth 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...
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The latest round of managed information release by Edward Snowden via Spiegel (one of a series) includes the snippet that Chinese security services copied "terabytes" of data about the aircraft. The release states that the compromised information includes radar systems data, engine schematics, heat contour maps, and designs to cool exhaust gases.
